Norman Bodek

      Frederick Taylor once said that "It is management's job to do the planning and the thinking and the worker does the work." For the early parts of the 20th century with the vast immigrant work force this theory might have applied. In this age of Global Competition we no longer can allow the inherent creative talent of our people to lie untapped. The eighth waste is the "underutilization of the worker's creative potential. The average Japanese company saves $4,000 per year per employee from their creative ideas. How does Toyota and the other Japanese companies open this vast unused potential?