Human Resources Development in Some Deming Prize Winners in Asia

Abstract

In this paper the author introduced practical examples of Human Resources development practices in three Deming Application Prize winners companies : Rane TRW Steering Systems Ltd. of India, Siam Cement Group of Thailand, and Sanden International (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. of Singapore. There are many excellent practices commonly observed among those three companies. Actually, those excellences having been practiced in many Japanese companies until very recently. In other words, they had been successed by introducing "Japanese style human development practices" and customizing to their own style. Recently, under the situation that the numbers of Japanese companies who can win Deming Prize decreased so much, we Japanese should remember that used to be Japan had succeeded to establish "quality country" based on greedy learnings from overseas companies. Now, once again, we should re-start to learn from those overseas excellent companies.