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LITERATURE REVIEW “GUNG HO”

Rodessa May C. Tuyo, MSci.Ed-Math
Teacher III-DepEd Cotabato PNHS-SHS
[email protected]

INTRODUCTION learn every job within the factory.

Each of the worker were very
Cooperation and success of happy at first but in the other hand
an organization, corporate and a they were unhappy on Japan’s
company relies on the management expectation Later, the Japanese
of the leader. Through sent a representatives to look on
consideration there are aspects to the company they should be it was
be adopted in order for the Takahara Kaz Kazuhiro,with a
company to prosper not limited to lenient personality towards his
how the workers were subordinate and was assign to
compensated, deal on their skills manages as liaison of the
and how they work cooperatively, Japanese and proved himself by
the differences on their culture, making the American plan
language and origin. This review is successful in hunt, and to help
not to explore the movie of Gung American workers be convince to
Ho but to have a literature review of get on board with the new rules to
which discusses the content of the pitch a cause to make a production
movie that has something of 15,000 cars per month making it
comparable to the Public productive and best auto plant of
Organization. The movie “Gung Ho the Japanese, in return the workers
of 1986” is basically a comedy will be given a raise of their wages
movie, also realizes on wards on as a deal providing the said no less
how a company or a corporate be than one on the minimum quota.
successful through adopting new On the other hand Stephen made a
schemes, concepts of unity, hard meeting of his co-workers on the
work and cooperation. The basic provisions of the Japanese in a
plot of the movie took place in a ways he ends up lying to produce
fictional town called Hadleyville in 13,000 car in a month and shall
Pennsylvania, of which most of the have a partial raise on their salary,
town resident got their work in a and backfires on him since the
Auto shop which has been shut employees choose to produce
down for a while due to lack of 13,000 cars only because they do
finances. The former foreman looks not believe to hit on their goal and
and hunt for Steven to goes to ability eventually the workers learn
Tokyo in hoping to convince Assan the truth and decided to walk off on
Motors a Japan’s car manufacturer the job thus it appears to be failure
to reopen a plant using the plant of the said venture and when it
original workers. The Japanese looks like it would going to end
agrees and has the belief that those Stephen Hunt lead to be a example
employees should agree to work to come to the workplace doing the
like employees do in Japan with low job all by themselves. Each worker
salary, work efficiently with quality, had seen the work of the others
cannot form a union and should finally decided to work try to save
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everyone in order to hit the goal of of work to produce the minimum

15,000 cars even though some of quota of 15,000 cars in order for
the cars on the midst of counting them to ern the raise of their salary.
were of well. Secondly, on the other hand in the
movie it illustrates the condition
MAIN BODY principle in contract law and what
Accordingly, this movie happen when there is a strict
emphasizes the nature of what compliance. A condition is an event
Public Organization is? Approaches which must occur, unless its non-
used in an organization, how it was occurrence is excused before a
managed, the human approach or contract becomes due. (national
the relationship of the company Paralegal College,2021) In other
towards its employees. To begin words when the contract doesn’t
with, the movie cited some occur then the other party is under
approaches on the following; first no obligation to perform in return. A
the Contract Law, second the promissory must fully perform in
Superior Quality of worker, third the order to fulfill a condition. Especially
proper technique and its differences when both Hunt and Kazuhiro
on quality and efficiency of work made a deal on to produce 15,000
and on how human relation cars in a month for the employees
approach was used towards to get a raised on their wages.
employees. To cite the following The movie also featured the
one by one, first is on organization classical theory on public
according to (Juneja,2015) cited the administration as a science, when
principle of management on the Urwick wrote that lack of structure
superior quality of a worker. can lead to a lot of inefficiencies
According to Taylor, “Scientific and confusion within an
Management is an art of knowing organization and Gulick went ahead
exactly what you want your men to to identify 10 principles on which
do and seeing that they do it in the the organizational structure can be
best and cheapest way”. In Taylors designed. Below are the 10
view, if a work is analyses principles as listed by Gulick:
scientifically it will be possible to Division of labor or what we call
find one best way to do it. Hence specialization, Departmental
scientific management is a Organization, Hierarchical
thoughtful, organized, dual coordination, Deliberate
approach towards the job of Coordination, Creating coordination
management against hit or miss or committees, Decentralization, Unity
Rule of Thumb. According of command, Staff and Line,
to Drucker, “The cost of scientific Delegation and Span of Control.
management is the organized study The last principle regarding the
of work, the analysis of work into span of control of a senior
simplest element & systematic executive or a leader, acted as a
management of worker’s stimulant for other authors on
performance of each element”, this writing about leadership On the
was on the clip of the movie when other hand, Both soft skills and
they were organized seemingly to technical skills, or hard skills,
have a harmonious relationship are equally important in an
regardless of their culture to do the employee. There are skills to be
efficiency and maintain the quality considered in choosing employee
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or worker as part of your company Manager ask its subordinate the

considering the success and relevance of his family towards his
efficiency of work by the skilled work.
worker, are as follows; Soft skills
include the social expertise, Moreover, it was also Scientific
personality and character makeup, management is a management
communication skills, emotional theory that analyzes work flows to
intelligence, influence, and improve economic efficiency,
approach to work that an employee especially labor productivity. This
shows. These serve to complement management theory, developed by
the hard skills – those abilities that Frederick Winslow Taylor, was
have been learned and can be popular in the 1880s and 1890s in
measured and quantified – and can U.S. manufacturing industries.While
make an employee more of an the terms “scientific management”
asset to a company and “Taylorism” are often treated as
According to this last principle, the synonymous, a more accurate view
executive should have a smaller is that Taylorism is the first form of
number of people directly reporting scientific management. Taylorism is
to him to increase his efficiency. sometimes called the “classical
And these was seen accordingly perspective,” meaning that it is still
that former employees must abide observed for its influence but no
the rule and should learn every job longer practiced exclusively.
in the factory by efficiency towards Scientific management was best
their work. known from 1910 to 1920, but in
Lastly in the principle of Scientific the 1920s, competing management
management According to Drucker, theories and methods emerged,
“The cost of scientific management rendering scientific management
is the organized study of work, the largely obsolete by the 1930s.
analysis of work into simplest However, many of the themes of
element & systematic management scientific management are still seen
of worker’s performance of each in industrial engineering and
element”. This principle suggests management today.  Frederick
that work assigned to any Taylor published” Principles of
employee should be observed, Scientific Management” a work
analyzed with respect to each and that forever changed the way
every element and part and time organizations view their workers
involved in it. This means and their organization.
replacement of odd rule of thumb
by the use of method of enquiry,
investigation, data collection, CONCLUSION
analysis and framing of rules. Based on the cited clips on the
Under scientific management, videos and the principles of
decisions are made on the basis of Organization it is really a necessity
facts and by the application of to organization to give and take in
scientific decisions. When the order to have a harmonious type of
workers in the auto plant made an relationship which was also stated
argument to their manager on the on the following literature cited.one
time spent at work, in coming late must to consider and both the
and advance work off and the management and the subordinate
instances that the Japanese must look on to the following
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problem occurs to solve it human beings not as machine

accordingly. Though there was a models but as individuals with
big gap between their culture still differing psychological motivations
they manages to handle though and with distinct and dynamic group
respect thus it also considered the behavior affecting performances.
management training program for
efficiency and quality of work , the
organization must cooperate to REFERENCES
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