in other industries also became concerned. Some of these ideas were original explored in this country in the '80s due to deficient sales and decrease in market share. Both of these can denote death for even considerably large companies like IBM or General Motors. It was GM that analyzed Japanese industries and introduced TQM here with the Saturn car. GM decided that since they might lose some sales because of the expansion of the Japanese car manufacturing, they should study the methodologies that this old world culture could put quality autos on the market that out sold US autos. GM found that the Japanese had less middle management and more teams of employees that were self controlled. The teams were responsible for the perfection of the products that were made, instead of having quality control inspectors. The teams were given the authority to hire and fire its members. With this innovative knowledge, GM tried an experiment that eventually became the Saturn car. To this day the Saturn car assembly is still seen as an experiment for GM to use and harvest some of the inspirations so as to enhance its other factories. Thus, the Total Quality Management system went became popular with the idea creeping into all types of organizations. Saturn has yet to pull in an overall profit, but the solid sales still captivate business analysts. So while the people of Japan were committed to coming together to work towards creating an Industrialized Japan, Dr. Deming’s methods are less effective in a corporate culture that evolved from older hierarchical corporate structures copied from military organizations. In the military structure, the overall effectiveness of any particular association is directly proportional to the functioning of its members. As an organization increases in size the individuals lose sight of the concept of teamwork. To maintain the competitive edge a corporation must remain flexible. Different styles of o...
