European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse April 1985 the stars and stripes Page 19 business news Dixie gets Korea style Harmony in manufacturing by Nicholas Kristof not when japanese companies first began manufacturing in this Many people smiled at oddities like rework but analysts were struck with the efficiency of the japanese management the koreans Are set Ting up their own factories and bringing their version of management dozens of South korean corporations have opened offices in the United states and two have begun manufacturing the Luck Gold Star group opened a color television factory in Huntsville two and a half years ago and is now bustling with expansion last fall the Samsung group also began producing color at a factory in Roxbury the korean management style is similar to the much better known japanese approach although experts say the koreans Are often More willing to blend their techniques with american korean management Aims to Foster a family atmosphere in which employees interact freely with executives and share a Strong commitment to the company acting More As a gentle patriarch than As president of the Gold Star of America Suh has taken charge of the delicate task of grafting korean manage ment principles onto you believe what Gold Star does for said Rachel pausing from her Job on the Assem Bly my husband was in the Hospital for major and some of the management came and sat with me through Suh came and stayed with me in intensive and brought books and this carefully cultivated image of a caring company of one Happy family typifies the korean management but the Friendship is not for it is intended to keep unions at Bay and to Foster a loyalty and enthusiasm in the work Force that will generate More televisions per hour than american management one measure of its Success is a daily absenteeism rate at Gold Star that averages 1 compared with 5 percent in american the idea is to import not korean televisions but korean management these methods Are associated with an economic Miracle that produced even faster economic growth in South Korea Over the last 25 years than in Japan and three times faster than that in the United the principal weapon is its management what the koreans Call or even in South Luck Gold Star is an exemplar of this philos if we Are in a we May ask employees for special consideration to do things said president of overseas operations for the Luck Gold Star explaining the korean and they will but in the maybe they do not care that there is a Koo and his colleagues in the Luck Gold Star Board rooms want employees at the Huntsville Plant to and so they Are trying to transplant i expect dedication and loyalty in the if we help our Fame Suh said of his work telling employees about company and even asking for Are Cardinal principles of Gold family for All of the Are held and Quality discussions Are scheduled for every two in bonuses Are used to build about three Days a workers get a Bonus an hour of overtime pay if their Assembly line has increased output while maintaining Quality employees also get in Cash if they do not miss a Day of work for three similar management methods Are used at the other korean manufacturing Plant in the United Sam songs in Roxbury the employees Are also called a and interaction Between workers and executives is the korean styles derive from the confucian ethic that stresses deference and sub ordination of the individual to larger like the the koreans Are coming to the United states largely because of fear that protectionist rules could keep out their in february 1984 the Commerce department ruled that korean electronics companies were dumping or Selling for less than fair value color television sets in the United Gold Star is now required to Post Cash deposits of percent of the value of its although the final assess ments May vary from Maccarlie May Crown film the new King in computers an Engineer at White consolidated industries Fielding products in is shown developing a computer program for use with an automatic tube bending the machine makes precision tubing for air by Paul Rolly Salt Lake Utah up a 30yearold Utah entrepreneur wants to give Home computer operators the Best of both worlds with a product that will allow the easy Touse Apple macintosh to tap into the vast in pc software Bill Sadleir sold a printing press Busi Ness to obtain the Money to begin his dreamed of Dayna about six months he Hopes his idea makes him a new Young King in the computer while the firms Star product the Maccarlie has yet to go on the he said his orders number in the thou the Maccarlie is a wraparound console disk drive unit and keyboard expansion unit for the Small Apple giving that use Friendly machine the capability of employing the thousands of programs de signed for the larger and More complicated weve Given computer customers the Best of both Sadleir they can now use the smaller and easier ouse Apple but still have Access to the thou Sands of programs developed for when Apple introduced the macintosh last it billed it As a Clear alternative to the the macintosh is much Sim the user can perform various functions simply by moving the attached mouse rather than having to learn Complex keying patterns for various Sadleir it allows you to use the computer with out really knowing How it he Only about 400 programs have been developed so far for the Apple compared with for the said a onetime congressional aide to for Mer Dan we saw a definite Market need created and we decided to take advantage of we agree with apples philosophy that the average businessman does not have the time to learn everything he needs to know to operate a sophisticated and complicated computer like the he but Many businesses have invested so much Money in the ism they see going to the Apple when it could not process those they can get the portable computer and still use their ism software by applying the Maccarlie the product also allows ism letter qual Ity printers to be used with the digest British Survey shows optimism about growth in Economy London up one in three British businessmen the 1985 budget will increase the number of peo ple in work in the country but Only one in 10 expects his company to take on More the Institute of directors has according to an Iod business opinion optimism about economic prospects appears to have increased remarkably since the Survey showed that the number of businessmen who Are More optimistic about the British Economy than they were six months earlier has doubled from 27 percent to 54 those less optimistic have declined from 37 per cent in february to 18 the announced March was aimed at helping to create new the Survey found that on third of businessmen thought it would be successful but Only 10 percent expected new hiring in their own nearly three quarters of business leaders reported that they Are Content with the performance of the government As it affects the climate for their with 21 percent dissatisfied and Only 6 percent very Daimler Benz plans to invest in Dormer aerospace firm Stuttgart up Daimler Benz will buy a con trolling interest in West Germany family owned dornier aerospace the automobile manufacturer which makes Mercedes said in a statement it will take a 68percent share in the capital Stock of dornier and that the state government of Baden Wuerttemberg will acquire another 4 the rest of the Stock will remain in the hands of Claudi us and Silvius several other family members will sell their Daimler Benz said the Deal will have to be approved by its supervisory Board As Well As the West German Cartel office before it becomes the automotive company also said dornier would re main a separate entity with its own traditions within the Daimler Benz Bethlehem steel says losses hit million in 1st Quarter a Bethlehem steel the third largest american steel said its first Quarter losses climbed to million from million one year chairman Donald Trautlein said Bethlehem would be marginally profitable in the second Quarter and that improvements later in the year would depend on the Reagan administrations Effort to curb steel continued recovery for the Economy and continued reductions in operating costs and improvements in the company said the Price of steel has continued to fall since the last three months of 1984 and its operating losses in steel operations Rose from million this time last year to million for the current the operating losses in steel were aggravated by operating losses in Bethlehem natural resources where Coal prices were mining conditions less favourable and the Start of certain Iron Ore mining was
