http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6502 Tue, 20 May 2025 03:13:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6502&cpage=1#comment-295174 Peter Rogan Tue, 17 Jan 2017 00:18:10 +0000 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6502#comment-295174 Time/motion studies were the gold standard of improving productivity from the time of Henry Ford to the 1960s. Then Japanese car makers imported cheaper, better cars and manufacturers went into a dizzy and discovered process improvement. Maybe the solution isn't working faster, but finding a better, easier way to work. It had worked for the Japanese, after all. The fad here lasted maybe ten years, but faded in favor of fear-based management. People work harder if they think they'll be fired in the morning. That remains the American standard. But they won't bring back time/management studies because that just pits manager against manager. And the managers sabotage each other. And the entire business, if that's what it takes. I don't see the improvement at all, frankly. Time/motion studies were the gold standard of improving productivity from the time of Henry Ford to the 1960s. Then Japanese car makers imported cheaper, better cars and manufacturers went into a dizzy and discovered process improvement. Maybe the solution isn’t working faster, but finding a better, easier way to work. It had worked for the Japanese, after all. The fad here lasted maybe ten years, but faded in favor of fear-based management. People work harder if they think they’ll be fired in the morning. That remains the American standard. But they won’t bring back time/management studies because that just pits manager against manager. And the managers sabotage each other. And the entire business, if that’s what it takes. I don’t see the improvement at all, frankly.

]]> http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6502&cpage=1#comment-295168 Kona Mon, 16 Jan 2017 06:07:01 +0000 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6502#comment-295168 On these time studies, what I want to know is, where do I log the time spent filling out their stupid time forms? On these time studies, what I want to know is, where do I log the time spent filling out their stupid time forms?

]]>