Shipyard Organization and Management Development (The National Shipbuilding Research Program).

Download or read book Shipyard Organization and Management Development (The National Shipbuilding Research Program). written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research into various other aspects of Ishiwajima-Harima Heavy Industries (IHI's) shipbuilding system led to suspicion that Japanese and American shipbuilders differed greatly in their development and employment of college-educated middle management. The research indicated that Japanese shipbuilders cultivate and exploit middle management to a far greater degree. Thus, additional research was begun under the title, Role and Development of Middle Management. Later, discovery was made that IHI s management development approach conformed with basic principles of organization and management as taught in U.S. universities. Thus, the project was redirected to include the influence of traditional functional organization versus a product organization such as IHI s. This report concludes that an effective management development program is impossible with a traditional functional organization. Further, the research disclosed that: IHI s impressive management development program was possible because of a form of product organization applied to shipbuilding, and far from being the result of Japanese culture, the marriage of product organization and management development is regarded as vital by various outstanding firms in the U.S. and is well documented by American academia. Japanese shipbuilding managers seem to have read U.S. textbooks. Thus, the appropriate question is not, What are the Japanese doing? Instead, it is, What are U.S. shipbuilders not doing?