working creatively and effectively
The flexible working conditions(beyond time & space constraints)
Why is it important?
3 types - telecommuting, smartwork center, and mobile office
Byung-wook Ahn, SERI Business Note 34th edition, 2010
Real-time business → improve work efficiency
Reinforcing in-company communication
Increase productivity : the spread of the flex-time system
4.3 Systems
Top management give all employees smart phone to more flexible approach to every metro system. Also company make application used in smart phone based on employee's working process. Company has many systems for monitoring customers’ satisfaction. First they operate call center 24 hours, so anyone who have complaint and opinion about Seoul Metro 5678 call that center to ask them. A
system
Training system for general positions is sophisticated while training system for production positions is not. Due to the flexible production system, required skills to production workers are changing. The role of indirect workers and skills such as equipment control, monitoring, maintenance and repair is becoming more important. But current training system is not enough to respond to th
manufacturing and deliveries to subcontractors. On the other hand, strategic tasks such as new product development are done at Nike Headquarters. This outsourcing policy decrease marginal costs and allows for a more flexible system.
Style
Nike’s management style is different from vertical and authoritative style. The company puts more emphasis on inputs from employee’s work experiences
1. Why do you think that it is so important to cultivate guanxi and guanxiwang in China?
In China, guanxi is an essential factor which makes a business more likely to be successful. Because the political system of China is based on communist totalitarianism, there is much more possibility to execute works by person in charge with his subjective mind rather than to the legal process. Since t