One important feature of
Japanese business is the length of time workers remain with
the same company, receiving annual bonuses and sharing in
theprofits. successful American companies also treat
workers as owners of the enterprise. When workers share
in the goals of the organization they set their own tasks and
work with energy and enthusiasm.
In education students spend
more time on task when they are permitted to decide what to do
and when. In one school that has been very successful,
the teachers enters a classroom in which students are already
at work and fits in with what the students are doing.
The classroom is defined as belonging to the students by
little things like the teacher entering when the students
already occupy the space.
