Development of a new production management system for the co-elevation of humanity and productivity

This paper reports development activities for a new production management system aiming to obtain excellent product quality and high productivity by heightening the morale of the workers and by harmonizing the workers' human needs with the company's organizational needs

In the course of proceeding with the development of the new production management system, first, the needs of workers as a whole and as individuals were analysed by the multivariate analysis method, so as to clarify the differences in their motivations in regards of the workers' attributes, working environments and the management systems

Secondly, several proposals for improvement were presented to workers as a whole and as individuals and such proposed improvements were experimentally implemented one after another in order to harmonize the human needs with the organizational needs.