Useless waste and necessary waste 1.3.1.3 From water supply philosophy to faucet philosophy for a small lot less variety production (3)
If companies fire their employees under the name of restructuring and force their subcontractors to cut prices only to make themselves profitable, they are not worthy of respect. If companies are unable to protect their employment or give their subcontractors adequate profit, their social mission is over. Therefore, these companies should either relinquish their management or subdivide them to be profitable. Big companies don't have to be big ones forever. They should take turns.
Also, if employees complain or complain to the company, they should try to support themselves and their families outside of working hours. Employees should have the ability to be self-sustaining when the company faces difficulties in keeping with the current trends. Employees should reflect on their preparedness. Don't blame others or the company for your dissatisfaction. It is now the age of self-responsibility in the end.
These may be difficult to achieve, but those who are aiming for the manufacturing industry should not forget these examples described before. The opening of the manufacturing industry is becoming more difficult as much.
If you think that you can manage a company by paying for equipment and part-time labor, you can not become a manager. In the case where you can realize only by money, someone who is stronger than you will appear. The end of the bargain shop is to lose to another bargain shop. The combination of strategies and products or services including non-superficial know-how and software is indispensable. The transition to strategies and products or services that match the new era is necessary. The old and outdated strategies and products or services must be abandoned. If you can't do this, you are disqualified as a business owner.
For companies that have earned making use of the time difference in Southeast Asia and China, they may have had a happy time temporarily. But they soon face a very tough situation. In the industrial society where the top runners are always the same, the industry is rigid. A new runner that replaces the old must appear. That's happier for the majority of people.
"Japanese companies and businesses must be good citizens," said late Akio Morita of Sony. I interpret this means that even in an organization we must not lose our personal consciousness and judgment as a person. A company exists as an accumulation of individual consciousness, which is the basic building block of society, and corporate life exists there.
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