Japanese Management

Paper instructions:
4B Essay
Write a 3-5 page essay using the assigned reading resources for JAPANESE MANAGEMENT. ?What are the main guiding principles of “Japanese Management?” (e.g., quality)?
?Explain how and why Japanese management achieves higher morale in workers and higher quality in products than American corporations.
Required reading:
JAPANESE MANAGEMENT
?Ouchi, W. G. 1981. Chapter 4 in Theory Z: How American business can meet the Japanese challenge. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing, pp. 71-94.
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?Bounds, G., L. Yorks, M. Adams, and G. Ranney. 1994. “Quality circles” and “Quality in action: A Message to the student,” In Beyond total quality management: Toward the emerging paradigm. New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 459-464.
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?Deming, W. E. 1982. Chain reaction: Quality, productivity, lower costs, capture the market. In Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pp. 1-18.
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?UCLA Anderson School of Management. 2006. Interview with Tom Ross, CIO, American Honda Motor Co., Inc. Retrieved October 19, 2006 from: http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x15233.xml.
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?Sada Honda. 2006. Why work for a Japanese company? Retrieved October 19, 2006 from: hppt://www.winadvisorygroup.com/WhyWorkforJapaneseCompany.html
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