2012 Volume 12 Issue 1 Pages 9-20
This paper studies six workers' collectives in Hokkaido which passed ten years or more after the establishment, and analyzes how those workers' collectives develop their management. It is found from the result that six workers' collectives develop their management effectively on the following points; 1) they cooperate with various groups of community, 2) they recognize various competitors, and seek to differentiate themselves, 3) they share mission and goal among their members, 4) they build the system to motivate and satisfy their members, and 5) they build the system to share information of their client and business. Moreover, it was found that workers' collectives should develop their management on the following points; 1) they strengthen cooperation with other workers' collectives, and make various activities, 2) they keep a balance between client-oriented and particular-oriented management, 3) they keep the compatibility of fairness with quickness in decision making, 4) they reinforce the function of their joint organization, and share mutual roles clearly, 5) they secure human resources in wide sphere, and 6) they develop their successors.
