Chapter 261 I'm an overtime maniac! (2 in 1 chapter)

Tokyo, Nishihiba Electric Headquarters.

The main directors of Xizhi Electric gathered together, and a small-scale board meeting was being held here.

The theme of the board of directors is to outsource Xizhi Electric's small home appliance production business to countries with lower production costs.

On this point, the board of directors has reached a consensus. After all, Xizhi Electric will move towards a high-value-added technology industry in the future. The low-tech work of assembling small household appliances is no longer suitable for the current Xizhi Electric.

However, it is a matter that needs to be carefully considered to which country's factory for the production of small household appliances, because it is related to the future development layout of Xizhi Electric.

In the conference room, the directors expressed their opinions, while President Tanaka answered them one by one.

I saw one of the directors asked: President Tanaka, I have a question, our Xizhi Group has already invested in factories in Thailand, and our Japanese companies have also invested in Thailand for many years. Why don't we choose Thailand this time? What about choosing between Malaysia and China?”

Several other directors looked at President Tanaka, obviously this was also their concern.

President Tanaka smiled slightly and replied: There is a saying that eggs should not be put in the same basket, so I did this in consideration of risk diversification. But this is not the most important reason, the most important thing is , I am very dissatisfied with the production efficiency of the Thai factory.

Most of the directors have been to Thailand, right? I think you all have a good understanding of the work efficiency of Thai people. To be honest, Thai people are too lazy and their work efficiency is too low! The working hours of Thai workers are much less than our Japanese workers, and they are not willing to work overtime, they do not like work, they prefer to enjoy life!

In contrast, workers in China and Malaysia are much more industrious. In fact, the Malays in Malaysia are not much better than the Thais, but the Chinese in Malaysia are still very hardworking. This time, the Malaysian factory that wants to OEM for us is also a Chinese-based factory.

The profit of small appliances is not high, and we have to face competition from other brands. At present, Xizhi's focus is no longer on home appliances. If we cannot reduce costs and improve efficiency, it may be difficult for us to keep the business of small home appliances in the future. That's why I chose factories in China and Malaysia to manufacture our small appliances.

President Tanaka, I have a question, why don't we directly invest and build factories, but cooperate with local factories? Another director asked.

Because if we directly invest in the construction of factories, we will have to pay extra management costs! President Tanaka continued: The production of small household appliances requires more manpower, and naturally requires more management personnel.

If we directly invest in the construction of factories, we have to pay attention to management, just for small household appliances, it is not worth it! What's more, the OEM model has also had a successful precedent. Many labor-intensive low-end industries in Japan have already been transferred out!

The directors raised a few more questions, and President Tanaka answered them all clearly.

In fact, these directors can ask some questions, and it is not their turn to make a real decision.

Xizhi Electric was founded by the Tanaka family. The Tanaka family must have the most important voice within Xizhi Electric. As long as the members of the Tanaka family reach an agreement, basically no one can stop it.

In addition to the Tanaka family, the most influential person is the representative of the Mitsui Consortium.

The Mitsui Consortium consists of twenty-five large enterprises, including Xizhi. Therefore, the Xizhi Group is affiliated to the Mitsui Consortium. Therefore, President Tanaka still has to listen to the opinions of the Mitsui Consortium.

On today's board of directors, the representative of the Mitsui Consortium obviously had no opinion, and he had reached a consensus with President Tanaka.

Seeing that there are no problems with the directors, President Tanaka cleared his throat and said, Since everyone is fine, then let's discuss whether we should choose a factory in China or a factory in Malaysia.

Both have their own advantages. Malaysia's comprehensive business environment is better, but Malaysia's production cost is also higher. Although China's production cost is low, its comprehensive environment is not as good as Malaysia's.

The information we have at present is not enough for us to make a choice, so I plan to send people to the factories in China and Malaysia to conduct on-site inspections. After the inspection results come out, we will have a meeting to discuss which one to choose.

President Tanaka turned to the secretary behind him and said, Please come in Watanabe-kun!

After a while, a middle-aged man walked in. President Tanaka pointed at the man, and said, This is Mr. Watanabe, who used to be the person in charge of our factory in Thailand. All directors should have heard his name. Watanabe-kun has outstanding ability and rich experience. This time I plan to send Watanabe-kun to inspect factories in China and Malaysia.

Directors, please advise! Watanabe Yu immediately bowed to everyone.

President Tanaka said, Watanabe-kun, please introduce your inspection plan to the directors!

Yes! Watanabe Yu bowed to President Tanaka and walked to the conference table.

I saw Watanabe Yu slowly said: Dear Directors, I have visited dozens of factories, including the United States and Europe, which are highly developed industrialized countries, as well as medium developed countries such as Brazil and South Korea. Of course, there are also some poor backward developing countries.

During all the inspections, I faced the same problem, that is, what I saw and heard was what the manufacturer wanted me to see and hear. In layman's terms, everything I can inspect is pre-arranged by the manufacturer!

They will arrange all the steps, processes, content, and even the route of the inspection in advance! Some careful factories will even prepare several sets of work plans as emergency preparations.

Of course, this can reflect the factory's intentions and the importance it attaches to the inspection. However, under such careful preparation, I was unable to obtain real information. What I saw and heard was prepared in advance, and these are likely to be fake!

I believe that no one will expose their shortcomings to others. When the factory knows that someone will visit, they will cover up all their shortcomings as much as possible, and then show their best side.

This is a form of falsification, and this kind of falsity will inevitably affect our judgment and make us make wrong choices. The inspection of the foundry factory this time is related to the future strategic layout of Xizhi Electric, so we must obtain real and effective information so that the directors can make accurate judgments.

Watanabe-kun, it seems that you already have a strategy to deal with! a director asked.

Yes. Watanabe-kun nodded and continued: Everyone knows that when Michelin assesses the restaurant's rating, it will not send out a mighty delegation to taste the restaurant's food, but will send many A so-called 'food spy' visits the restaurant several times a year before giving it a corresponding rating.

The restaurant does not know when the food spy will arrive, nor who the guests are, so what they show is the most normal daily reaction, so the results obtained by this method are the most real. of!

Another director immediately asked, Watanabe-kun, are you planning to send someone to make unannounced visits to factories in China and Malaysia?

Watanabe Yu bowed slightly at the director, and then said: Not only unannounced visits, but also clear investigations, I plan to do both!

On the one hand, I will lead the inspection team and conduct the inspection with great fanfare. I will also inform the factories in advance of the content of the inspection, so that they can prepare early, just like taking an open-book exam.

At the same time, I will look for suitable candidates, enter the factory as a worker, and work on the spot for a period of time. Front-line workers will learn about all aspects of factory operations, and there is no way to fake their daily work.

I carried out the inspection with great fanfare, the purpose is to attract the attention of the factory. After I completed the inspection and left, they would never have imagined that our real inspectors have just started their work! In this way, I can clearly understand the real operation of the factory.

Another director asked: This plan sounds very good, but how do you plan to arrange the candidates who enter the factory? Do you want to hire local people?

No, I can't trust the locals! Watanabe Yu shook his head without hesitation, and then said: In this regard, I plan to use Japanese, which is related to the future strategic layout of Xizhi Electric, and only I can trust it!

Do you already have a suitable candidate? a director next to him asked.

Yes, I did find two suitable candidates. They have already started preparations. After a period of time, they can act when they are fully prepared! Watanabe Yu said.

At this time, President Tanaka asked, Everyone, what do you think of Watanabe-kun's plan?

I think it works.

I feel pretty good.

Everyone expressed their support for the plan.

President Tanaka smiled slightly: Watanabe-kun, the directors all support your plan. Next, you will have to work hard. I look forward to the results of your inspection!

...

Li Weidong looked at the document in his hand, looking a little surprised.

Wei Dong, what does it say? When will the delegation from Xizhi Electric come? asked Ma Zhongyi next to him.

It doesn't matter when you come, the key is that Xizhi Electric made a list of the inspection contents and clearly wrote it on it! Li Weidong said with a pouting mouth.

Ma Zhongyi smiled honestly: It seems that the Japanese are serious in doing things, and they told us in advance what they are going to investigate!

However, Li Weidong frowned: I always feel that something is wrong. The Japanese are very smart, but they are not stupid! How could they hold an open-book exam? Tell us all the content to be examined, let us prepare in advance. , then what's the point of this investigation?

Wang Kaiping next to him said: Wei Dong, do you think the Japanese will play a trick on us? First tell us the content of the inspection, and let us only prepare what is within the scope of the content. Prepare to catch us off guard!

It makes sense! Li Weidong nodded: So we pretend that we haven't seen this list of inspection contents, we still have to prepare everything that should be prepared as before! In case it is the inspection of Xizhi Electric The regiment really came to the east and west, and we can handle it!

...

Li Weidong made some preparations here, and the Xizhi Electric delegation led by Watanabe Yu also arrived as scheduled.

After all, Xizhi Electric is a well-known brand, so the city leaders not only received it personally, but also sent a deputy mayor to accompany Mr. Watanabe on the inspection tour.

Therefore, the first day Watanabe Yu arrived in Qinghe was completely spent in various warm receptions.

Leaders at all levels took turns to give welcome speeches, and then introduced the situation of Qinghe City to Yu Watanabe. After that, there was a reception banquet. After taking turns toasting, Yu Watanabe lay directly on the bed of the hotel, and there was no chance to go to the electric furnace factory for inspection.

The expedition officially started the next day.

After a period of training, the militarized management has achieved initial results. All the workers are dressed in uniform and sit in front of the assembly line, looking a bit like a modern factory.

Watanabe Yu looked at the uniformly dressed employees on the assembly line and said, Mr. Li, your workers are well dressed!

Mr. Watanabe, our factory adopts militarized management, and uniform dress is part of it. Li Weidong replied.

Military management? I haven't seen it in companies in other countries! Can you explain it to me? Watanabe Yu said.

Okay, enterprise militarization management means that an enterprise uses the military's management methods, management models and management experience as a reference... Li Weidong immediately explained to Watanabe Yu what is militarized management.

The militarized management of enterprises is not unfamiliar to the Chinese, but in fact only Chinese enterprises will adopt militarized management.

Among industrial countries, only Chinese enterprises can adapt to this kind of militarized management.

Many people may think that foreign military enterprises must also be managed militarily?

This is to confuse the nature of the enterprise with the management method. Foreign military enterprises are only responsible for the production of weapons and do not bring militarized management into the enterprise.

Some of the means used in the process of militarized management are in conflict with Western values, and the West has pushed its own values ​​to the world, so militarized management will not work in other countries at all.

There are many examples of Chinese factories going abroad, investing in enterprises in other countries, and wanting to adopt militarized management, all of which have encountered Waterloo without exception. Even in Vietnam, which has been touted the most in recent years, their workers cannot stand militarized management.

After listening to Li Weidong's introduction to militarized management, Yu Watanabe's expression was slightly uncertain. As a senior manager of a company, he never thought that he could manage a company in such a harsh way, but he also realized that How terrifying the efficiency will be if this kind of militarized management can be successfully implemented!

For Watanabe, this is definitely a bright spot.

After most of the inspection, Watanabe Yu followed Li Weidong's arrangement, and the content of the inspection was also on the previous list, and there were no problems beyond the outline.

Li Weidong didn't know what medicine Watanabe was selling in the gourd. He was always vigilant, waiting for Watanabe to make a move.

Finally, Watanabe Yu asked the first question beyond the outline: Mr. Li, I heard that the workers in China's factories are all assigned by the state. Is this the same for your factories?

In fact, Watanabe Yu is asking knowingly, he just wants to lead to the next topic.

Li Weidong immediately replied: The state's allocation of workers was a matter of many years ago. Today's workers are all recruited to enter the factory. Of course, there are also some highly professional workers who come from specialized schools. selected from here. And our kind of foundry factory does not have high technical requirements, so we directly recruit workers from nearby villages!”

Is the recruitment of workers open? Watanabe Yu immediately asked.

It's an open recruitment! Li Weidong replied, wondering what the intentions of Mr. Watanabe were.

Watanabe Yu immediately said: Mr. Li, I want to see the process of your public recruitment of workers!

Look at the recruitment process? Is this just a slap in the face? But what is there to see in the recruitment process? Li Weidong couldn't understand Watanabe Yu's intentions.

Mr. Li, in the next few years, we, Xizhi Electric, plan to completely transfer the small household appliance production business. With your current scale, I am afraid that you cannot undertake so many production tasks. If you want to OEM for our Xizhi Electric, you need to Expand production!

Watanabe went on to explain: So I want to take a look at how you recruit your workers and how your workers are trained, so that I can be sure that you have the ability to expand subsequent production capacity.

This excuse is too far-fetched! It's just about looking at worker training, what about recruiting workers, doesn't he know that the most important thing in China is labor! Just post a job recruitment notice, and a lot of people can come! Li Weidong thought dark road.

Li Weidong didn't know what medicine Watanabe was selling in the gourd. He couldn't guess at all. Watanabe was looking for an excuse to recruit workers and placed undercover agents in the electric furnace factory.

But one thing is certain, Li Weidong can't refuse Watanabe Yu's request.

So Li Weidong nodded and said, Since Mr. Watanabe wants to see it, I will temporarily recruit a group of workers!

...

Ding dong, the doorbell of the room rang, Watanabe Yu walked to the door, and saw a familiar face through the cat's eyes.

Watanabe Yu immediately opened the door and invited the man in.

Noda-kun, thank you for your hard work! Watanabe Yu said.

The man's name is Noda Chuichiro, who was carefully selected by Watanabe Yu and planned to send to the electric furnace factory.

Noda Chuichiro's father was a Japanese orphan, and he took a Chinese wife and gave birth to Noda Chuichiro, so Noda Chuichiro grew up in China in his childhood and speaks Chinese very fluently.

Later, Noda Chuichiro's father returned to Japan with his family, and Noda Chuichiro began to integrate into Japanese life and became a Japanese.

After Noda Chuichiro grew up, he entered the job of Xizhi Electric, and now he has been working for Xizhi Electric for many years.

This time, Watanabe needed to find someone to pretend to be a Chinese worker and enter Li Weidong's electric furnace factory for inspection, so he chose Noda Chuichiro.

Noda Chuichiro is half Chinese, and he has lived in China. He knows everything about China very well. If he pretends to be a Chinese, he will never be a gangster.

After the two sat down, Watanabe Yu asked, Noda-kun, how are you preparing?

It's all ready. Noda Chuichiro took out an ID card from his pocket and said, This is my cousin's ID card, and then I will try to enter as my cousin Li Fugui. factory!

Watanabe Yu looked at the photo of his ID card and said, You and your cousin look a bit alike!

Noda Chuichiro's mother is Chinese, so Noda Chuichiro made a special trip back to his mother's hometown, found his family, and borrowed an ID card from his cousin.

Noda Chuichiro's cousin is his uncle's son. He is a few years younger than him, but he is not as well maintained as Noda Chuichiro, so the two seem to be about the same age.

As the saying goes, a nephew is like an uncle, and Noda Chuichiro and his cousin look like five or six parts of the imagination. Coupled with the photo of the first-generation ID card, it was not clear at all, so Noda Chuichiro took this ID card and said that he was his cousin Li Fugui, and he was really able to fool around.

For this undercover investigation mission, Noda Chuichiro was also bothered, which was equivalent to getting a real identity for himself. Since the household registration was not connected to the Internet at that time, the police station had to work hard to verify the authenticity.

Next, the two began to exchange information, and Watanabe Yu told Noda Chuichiro what he knew.

I saw Watanabe Yu said: During the inspection today, I have proposed to the factory to watch their worker recruitment process. The factory has promised me that a special job fair will be arranged, and you can sign up at that time. I will also secretly help you successfully onboard.

Is there anything else I should pay attention to after successfully joining the job? Noda Chuichiro asked.

When I visited the factory today, Mr. Li introduced to me that his factory adopts militarized management. According to my observation, it is only a very strict management method, and some methods are even harsh. However, I do not I don't know, is this a deliberate show for me, or it's just like this on weekdays. Watanabe Yu said.

Noda Chuichiro nodded: Minister Watanabe, please rest assured, when I enter the factory, the truth of this matter will be revealed!

Watanabe Yu shook his head: Noda-kun, I mean, if the militarized management is true, then after you enter the factory, you need to obey the orders of the Chinese and be strictly managed, I hope you don't have Reverse emotions.

Minister, I understand what you mean. I will show the attitude when I first entered Xizhi Electric, and absolutely obey the orders of the superior. Noda Chuichiro said immediately.

By the way, there is one more thing! Watanabe Yu continued; Mr. Li, the factory manager, said today that their factory often works overtime! This may be more difficult.

Overtime? Noda Chuichiro curled his lips in disdain, and then said, Minister, when I was in Japan, my colleagues called me 'overtime mad'!