Waigaya Case Study Honda

1.They embrace paradox “Waigaya”

Honda is a company that have full with knowledge workers that ask them at all levels to frequently or regularly to poke holes in the status quo. We can say that, in their daily routine, they will conduct spontaneous meeting. The meeting is known as “Waigaya”, during this meeting all the decisions regardless large or small will be evaluate again with objective that they will get a better strategic or tactical choice. Waigaya for them is feeling of never ending dissatisfaction, means that they established set of attitudes which they put self-satisfaction is their enemy. This is the way that for Honda unplanned and agenda-free meetings can be found everywhere and become part of their cultured, also it is absolutely necessary for them. For this part, company not provide conference room. The meeting was conducted in a maintenance closet: an 8-by-8- foot room with brooms, brushes, and mops with environment smell of detergent in the air.

Their manufacturing units are friendly and efficient because at Honda manufacturing factory they are practicing the concept of “Green Factory”. They constantly innovate on their production in manufacturing factory to make it more efficient, less time and less cost. They also keep on going do research, have their own cultured, practised Japanese organisations management techniques in order to fulfil customer needs and want for a new product and qualitative one. So, they have bring full commitment and effort to ensure their customer feel satisfy and get what they want with the money they spent. What have they done is to shift one unit to other unit manufacturing and between plant by their manufacturing flexibility and adjustability. The reason of their changes and shifting are according to market demand and requirement of the