[Column] Think of management as participation from all employees, not just the president alone.

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Participation means thinking for oneself, making judgments, taking action, and accepting responsibility. It involves suffering, enjoyment, joy, and a sense of fulfillment from being needed. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have basic hierarchies, including owners, executives, senior staff, mid-level employees, and general staff. Although each has different roles, the effort of all employees toward the same goal remains unchanged. A common issue in SMEs is that "the management's policies do not permeate thoroughly." This phenomenon occurs because there is no philosophy of employee participation. Recently, more companies have been creating management plans, but there are commonalities in the methods of those companies where policies are not well-communicated or enforced. In these cases, the owner creates the management policy, sets numerical targets, and then holds a presentation. While this approach is good for the owner in terms of summarizing policies and numbers, problems arise in the concretization of those plans. This is because the owner creates them alone, leading to the absence of "the functions of product strategies, tactics, and operations that embody the policies" within the company.

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