Notes from Toyota-land : : An American Engineer in Japan / / Darius Mehri.
In 1996, Darius Mehri traveled to Japan to work as a computer simulation engineer within the Toyota production system. Once there, he found a corporate experience far different from what he had expected. Notes from Toyota-land, based on a diary that Mehri kept during his three years at an upper-leve...
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Mehri, Darius, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Notes from Toyota-land : An American Engineer in Japan / Darius Mehri. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2005 1 online resource (256 p.) : 1 chart/graph, 16 line drawings text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- First Year -- Second Year -- Third Year -- Character List -- Organizational Chart of Company Hierarchy -- Glossary -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In 1996, Darius Mehri traveled to Japan to work as a computer simulation engineer within the Toyota production system. Once there, he found a corporate experience far different from what he had expected. Notes from Toyota-land, based on a diary that Mehri kept during his three years at an upper-level Toyota group company, provides a unique insider's perspective on daily work life in Japan and charts his transformation from a wide-eyed engineer eager to be part of the "Japanese Miracle" to a social critic, troubled by Japanese corporate practices.Mehri documents the sophisticated "culture of rules" and organizational structure that combine to create a profound control over workers. The work group is cynically used to encourage employees to work harder and harder, he found, and his other discoveries confirmed his doubts about the working conditions under the Japanese Miracle. For example, he learned that male employees treated their female counterparts as short-term employees, cheap labor, and potential wives. Mehri also describes a surprisingly unhealthy work environment, a high rate of injuries due to inadequate training, fast line speeds, crowded factories, racism, and lack of team support. And in conversations with his colleagues, he uncovered a culture of intimidation, subservience, and vexed relationships with many aspects of their work and surroundings. As both an engaging memoir of cross-cultural misunderstanding and a primer on Japanese business and industrial practices, Notes from Toyota-land will be a revelation to everyone who believes that Japanese business practices are an ideal against which to measure success. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Automobile industry and trade Japan Management. Corporate culture Japan. Industrial relations Japan. Work environment Japan. Biography & Autobiography. Sociology & Social Science. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. bisacsh Perrucci, Robert. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801442896 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501728792 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501728792 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501728792/original |
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