Abstract
Basis of improvement activities is supposed for all staff members to improve their capabilities, aiming at achieving self-realization and creating a bright and pleasant working environment while cooperating with each other. The management and their supervisors are required to provide instructive supports for such activities with high respect for humanity. However in looking back on my experience involving improvement activities in a hospital, I had less opportunity to refer to such basis of improvement activities.
In addition, judging from case examples seen and heard in U.S. Kaizen Tour conducted by Chubu Medical Quality Management study group, and in Kaizen delegations from overseas accepted by Seki Central Hospital, such basis of improvement activities concept seems not to have been understood correctly by overseas people.
Therefore, the main theme of this report is to seek the basis of such improvement activities by looking into Jomon people who had peaceful lives without conflict for an unprecedented long period of 15,000 years in order to contribute improvement activities in the future.
