The Introduction of ME Technology and Its Impacts on the Management and Industrial Relations in the Electrical Machine Industry.

该项目的目的是明确微电子技术(ME)的引入给企业或工厂层面的管理组织和劳资关系带来了什么样的变化。选择日立株式会社及其业务集团作为主要研究对象，重点对其四家工厂进行实地调查，即日立工厂(重型电机)、Tochigi(冰箱)、Tokai(录像机)、通过调研，我们主要研究了以下几点：-ME技术的引进方案是如何确定的，其主要动机是什么。-生产过程的微电子化具有什么样的内容或特征。-在企业的组织结构、管理控制系统、工作组织和工人的参与方面带来了什么样的影响。-工会对ME技术的引入有何反应。为什么总体上没有看到严重的冲突。

The aim of this project is to clarify concretely what kinds of changes have been taken place in the management organization and industrial relations at the firm or plant level by the introduction of microelectronics technology (ME).Choosing the Hitachi, Ltd. and its business group as main object of the case study, we focused our field-survey at their four plants, namely the Hitachi Works (for heavy electrical machines), the Tochigi(for refrigerator), the Tokai(for VTR), and the Hitachi Software Engineering Ltd. (for Software).Through the survey we investigate chiefly following points : -how the introduction scheme of the ME technology is decided and what its main motives are. -what kind of content or character the 'microelectronization' of the production process has.-what sort of effects are brought about in the organizational structure of business, management control system, organization of work and worker's participation.-how the trade union reacts towards the introduction of the ME technology. Why there have not been seen serious conflicts on the whole.