concepts that helped restore American manufacturing strength from the origination in Japan of some of its current practices. This kind of leadership has not always been widely recognized as a fundamental productivity key to expansive business growth over the last several years. Such improvement initiatives often are not fully quantified. However, they collectively represent much of the competitive 10 Feigenbaum−Feigenbaum: The Power of Management Capitol 1. New Management for Business Growth
and a Japanese company, GE Fanuc is a manufacturer of factory automation and control products. Headquartered in Virginia with 1,500 employees, the HR department primarily performed administrative support activities. But when Donald Borwhat, Jr., took over as Senior Vice President of Human Resources, he and his staff began by restructuring and decentralizing the HR entity so that each functional area of the company has an HR manager assigned to it. The HR managers were expected to be key contributors