Reply #51: Deming complained of this 50 years ago, it is one of the worse aspects of US Managment

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Deming emphasized TRAINING, but it was TRAINING done by the Employer to get the Employer's Employees to do what the Employer needed them to do. European and Japanese Companies do a lot more training then does US Companies (And the more successful US Companies do more training then less successful companies).

While the above has been known for at least 50 years (If not longer), American Companies still want to hire someone trained by someone else, despite the long history of that NOT occurring.

More on Deming:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming

William Edwards Deming (October 14, 1900 – December 20, 1993) was an American statistician, professor, author, lecturer and consultant. He is perhaps best known for his work in Japan. There, from 1950 onward, he taught top management how to improve design (and thus service), product quality, testing and sales (the last through global markets) through various methods, including the application of statistical methods.

Yes, Deming is called the father of Japanese quality, prior to about 1960 (When his policy as to Quality and Management started to see results) Japanese made items were known to be Junk (Worse then what China is making today). Starting about 1950, following Deming's Advice, Japanese industry started it long climb to be an country known for high quality items. By the mid 1970s Japan has passed the US in quality (US Companies had generally rejected Deming's policy of concentrating on the worse input and improving it, US companies went instead to the "Best and the Brightest" ignoring the fact that any company's quality can be no better then its worse input, i.e. if you want to improve quality look at the BOTTOM level of quality NOT the top end, i.e. Improve your "D" students not your "A" students and that goes back to TRAINING and EDUCATION of the workforce. No one wants to address the issue of Drop outs or "D" students in education let alone in business and that is what is needed.