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Industrial change in occupied Japan
Japanese industry leaders began to turn their manufacturing establishment around after World War II under the United States-led Alliedoccupation.
The American Occupation's Industrial Consultancy
[edit]The most popular Japanese radio program in the 1950s is reputed to have been "Quality for Foremen." This emphasis on shop-floor leadership began through the intervention of three civil communications engineers who were part of the American occupation: Frank Polkinghorn, Charles Protzman, both from AT&T, and Homer Sarasohn of MIT's Radiation Laboratory, who headed the occupation's Civil Communications Section (CCS).[1][2] The Japanese had been trying to introduce scientific management practices, common in America, since 1913, and their failure to make changes contributed to their losing World War II. Japanese industries' leadership had been purged by the MacArthur occupation. This removed 2 obstacles to change: the rigid social stratification of business (which meant that communication flowed one way only), and the lack of technical qualifications in both management and the workforce. Japanese management, according to Bunzaemon Inoue (late President of Sumitomo Rubber) was "all line, no staff." The CCS section int
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Homer & Charles
In the late 1940's a large scale programme headed by General Douglas MacArthur was underway to rebuild the Japanese economy following the devastation caused during World War II.
The Civil Communication Section (CCS) was one part of the programme and was the group responsible for rebuilding Japans Communications industry, and Homer Sarasohn and Charles Protzman worked for CCS.
Amongst the many problems the CSS encountered during their work was the lack of Senior Executives who had been removed from positions of power and influence. The only people left to rebuild the communications industry were relatively junior and inexperienced middle managers and although eager they needed to be trained in modern concepts of progressive management.
Sarasohn and Protzman decided that a University level course in the fundamentals of industrial management was needed to modernize the management in the communications industry. The course was called The CSS Management Seminar, they wrote the text book and taught the first eight week course in Tokyo in 1949, the students represented more than 100 companies, universities and government agencies and the students were expected to teach personnel within their own organisations using the text book on their return. The course co
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Homer Sarasohn, IEEE Life Colleague, died Sep 28, 2001 at picture age misplace 85.
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