スウェーデンにおける新たなチーム作業の展開 : 90年代ボルボ・カーにおけるKLE戦略の事例
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概要
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At the beginning of the 1990s, Volvo struggled against serious financial conditions, and then management decided to close the Kalmar and Uddevalla plants, symbols of Swedish alternatives to auto industry. At Volvo's main assembly plant Torslanda, which is traditional Taylor-Ford type plant, KLE strategy was introduced at the same time to realize world class production and multi-products plant, in 1991. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the content of the KLE strategy, and position of the strategy on Volvo trajectory depending on interview with plant manager, production leaders and workers at Torslanda and Sovde plants in 1997 and 1998. Paper discusses about why the strategy was introduced at Torslanda and how the strategy succeeds previous experiences Volvo has developed at Kalmar and Uddevalla plants. To analyze them, paper tries to compare the KLE strategy with Uddevalla to identify relationship between them in terms of production system, workers' tasks and management policy. The KLE strategy is characterized by boundary-less organization, more competent worker in teams and integrated work. One area the KLE team takes charge of on the line and the tasks a worker is responsible for are also expanded, and the technical engineers take part in the working group in shops. Thus the KLE strategy intends flat organization and integrated work, that is, anti-Taylor-Ford working style and work organization. However, the strategy is not enough on the point of reorganizing of assembly line as Uddevalla plant showed because management could not give up their mass production strategy at Torslanda plant. The conclusion of this paper is that although the KLE strategy would be half way strategy in terms of Volvo trajectory, the strategy learns from the Uddevalla experiences in the working method under "Good work policy" of union, and also shows new challenge to cope with modularization at traditional plant. Therefore, the KLE strategy is on a new aspect of Volvo's trajectory after Uddevalla.
- 日本経営学会の論文
- 1999-05-30