Knowledge-driven work : unexpected lessons from Japanese and United States work practices

著者

• Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Joel

書誌事項

Knowledge-driven work : unexpected lessons from Japanese and United States work practices

Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld ... [et al.]

（Japan business and economic series）

Oxford University Press, 1998

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-178) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The daily work experiences of people in almost any part of the world are shaped by workplace innovations. Despite the vast diffusion of work practices, little is known about what it means for a company in the region to identify what it sees as the best practice and then introduce these practices in another culture which are less visible than the global exchange of products and services, but more significant. This book provides us with a closeup of eight Japanese affiliated manufacturing facilities operating in the United States and the beginnings of a reverse diffusion of innovation back to Japan. The key finding in this book is that massive global diffusion of work practices rests on something very fragile. This is the process by which individuals and groups of people come to new understandings that enable them to adopt new work practices. It is a process termed "virtual knowledge", which can be found at that critical time when understandings are still in formation. Also , the book reveals how some organizations have anticipated and channeled virtual knowledge that is constantly emerging from different groups in the organization. This turns out to be the core building block for continuous improvement in operations and is central to the process of diffusion. The process is part of a much larger process of global diffusion from Japan, the United States and other nations to all parts of the world.

目次

Foreword by Thomas A. Kochan and Haruo Shimada Preface Acknowledgements 1: Details Matter 2: Intial Visits to Japanese Factories 3: Cross-Cultural Diffusion 4: Team-Based Work Systems 5: Employee Involvement and Kaizen 6: Constructing Employment Security 7: Human Resource Management and Knowledge-Driven Work Systems 8: Labor Relations 9: Implications Notes Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA37109408
• ISBN:
  • 019511454X
• LCCN: 98020116
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New York ; Tokyo
• ページ数/冊数: xv, 188 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • NDC9 : 336.4
  • LCC : HD58.82
  • DC21 : 658.3
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Organizational learning -- United States -- Cross-cultural studies
  • LCSH : Knowledge management -- United States -- Cross-cultural studies
  • LCSH : Teams in the workplace -- United States -- Cross-cultural studies
  • LCSH : Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on -- United States -- Cross-cultural studies
  • LCSH : Corporations, Japanese -- United States -- Management -- Cross-cultural studies
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA31370314