Differences between Traditional Systems and Modern Suggestion System
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Ali Pakdel , Faculty of Management & Human Resources Development, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia.
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Shah Rollah Abdul Wahab , Faculty of Management & Human Resources Development, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia.
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Maliheh Lotfi , Faculty of Management & Human Resources Development, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia.
Promoting working life and providing meaningful and real participation of employees is an instrument for responding to rapid transformation and enhancing the organizational expectance. Employees in today's organizations looking for involvement in the workplace more than everything else, that, it's accomplished by implementing suggestion system. Suggestion system includes two parts, traditional and modern suggestion system, that traditional parts have developed in western countries and modern that practiced in Japan. It is believed that the modern suggestion system could assist organizations and employees for performing and utilizing from advantage of this system. This paper, discusses ten major differences between traditional and modern suggestion system.
Suggestion System, Kaizen, Management Support, Performance, Productivity
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