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COMMITMENT TO QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IMPORTANT

* * *

WINNING

TO BECOME A COMMITTED TO A CONTINUOUS

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF INDUSTRY (QUALITY SERVICES), SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

COMPANY,

THE CHIEF OF PROCESS

QUALITY

EXECUTIVE

BE THE IMPROVEMENT, MR ERNEST EVANS,

MUST

SPEAKING AT THE ADVANCED

HONG BY THE FEDERATION OF ORGANISED STRESSED THAT THIS COMMITMENT WAS ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL.

MANAGEMENT QUALITY

MR INDUSTRIES, KONG

SYMPOSIUM EVANS

THEN THE REST HE SAID IF THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE WAS UNCOMMITTED

MOTIVATED TOWARDS REAL QUALITY OF THE WORKFORCE WAS UNLIKELY TO BE IMPROVEMENTS.

SPRING FORTH THE

"FROM THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE'S COMMITMENT WILL POLICIES, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE COMPANY," MR EVANS SAID.

FOR

A WINNING

THESE WERE THEN TRANSLATED INTO CLEARLY DEFINED GUIDELINES MANAGERS, STAFF AND OTHER EMPLOYEES TO WORK TO IN BECOMING TEAM.

"IF

STAFF

ARE

MADE AWARE THAT

"THIS IS WHERE THE JAPANESE STYLE PROVED TO BE SO SUCCESSFUL.*

AND EXECUTIVE CHIEF THEM AS A TEAM, AND MANAGEMENT CARE AND ARE PREPARED TO WORK WITH

THEY ARE AND PAID,

UNLIKELY

BE TREATED THAT THEY ARE FAIRLY TEMPTED INTO PLAYING 'MUSICAL CHAIRS' IN THE JOB MARKET,

OF MANAGING EMPLOYEES

THE

F

то HE SAID.

HAS

EFFORTS MR EVANS ADVISED CHIEF EXECUTIVES THAT IN MAKING FIRST

LEVEL, THEY MIGHT DECIDE TO INTRODUCE QUALITY AT THE FACTORY FLOOR

TO OPERATIONS, ASPECT OF

THE FIRST TO START WITH ONE VIABILITY OF NEWLY-INTRODUCED CONCEPTS.

SAID.

THEIR

"OR YOU MIGHT CONSIDER STARTING

TEST

"

WITH ONE PRODUCT LINE, HE

THE GAINS MADE NEW POLICIES TO THE

"FROM YOUR EXPERIENCES, YOU CAN THEN EVALUATE BEFORE INTRODUCING A WIDER APPLICATION OF YOUR WHOLE FACTORY.

"FOR A START YOU MIGHT TRY AN IN-DEPTH IN ALL ITS FORMS WITHIN YOUR FACTORY.

EVALUATION OF WASTAGE

DISCONCERTING

"SUCH AN EXAMINATION IS LIKELY

ΤΟ SHOW RATHER

RESULTS.

"IT IS ALSO LIKELY TO SHOW AREAS WHERE BIG SAVINGS CAN BE MADE, WITH SCOPE FOR REDUCING OVERHEADS AND INCREASING PROFITS."

MR EVANS SAID THE NEW MANAGEMENT

FROM

TEAM

METHODS, EVOLVING APPROACH. THE WORK A DECENTRALISED JAPANESE EXPERIENCE, WAS CONTAINED A SMALLER NUMBER OF BETTER EDUCATED AND SKILLED EMPLOYEES.

/FULLY FAMILIAR

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