From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Sun Sep 01 2002 - 18:34:50 MDT
In a message dated 9/1/2002 7:20:49 PM Central Standard Time,
Spudboy100@aol.com writes: Well, (putting my red armband on) if this is true,
then there is a crying need for us to inform stockholders of this deficit in
American corporate management. If stockholders are educated of this
deficiency, they may be more reluctant to invest in companies that are ruled
by glorified human resources propagandists.
Spudboy,
That is very good. LOL The truth is they know. I think it was in 1978
or 1979 that Scientific American ran an article saying the U. S. should get
out of manufacturing and become a service provider.
At the time I wondered about the article. It seemed short sighted but
even more it seemed to be a policy paper so I couldn't figure out what it was
doing in SA.
Right on the heels of that article the "Japanese Management Methods"
started showing up. Now as I am a natural born contrarian as well as being
very interested in the techniques new and old used in my profession I paid
close attention.
First the techniques themselves. I think it was Taguchi that came up
with what appears to be a better method of designing industrial experiments.
I'll defer to those of you that are better on statistics but that is the way
it looks to me. There are two American techniques that came out in the mid
to late forties to the best of my knowledge. One, called SIS showed up as
JIT. The other is MTM and I know hardly anyone that uses it.
All the others that I have seen are not only American techniques but
they are from before my time (born 1934) and most of them were developed down
at the Hawthorne Avenue plant of Western Electric (did my memory slip on that
company name?) in Berwyn, Illinois.
My impression from watching the conduct of my larger clients is that
they are up to here with the USA, the AFL/CIO, OSHA, EEO, EPA, our school
system and all the rest of us. They are making soothing noises so as not to
alarm us while they move overseas. I'll ask Regina to comment further on all
that.
Ron h.
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