The German locomotive is out of the station The German locomotive is out of the station
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A couple of years ago, an editor, I wrote a dossier Germany whose title was: "A locomotive stops at the station." Not so long ago that the overall picture has changed, the engine now runs throughout Europe.
As written here will not be additional to all that has been published on the subject, because he has another goal: the cutting sociological.
companies and in that sense I say its all Italian companies, they have forgotten or never introduced in their management, concepts of sociology. Sometimes it usurps the human resource management (in the most advanced business) with sociology, but it is just a shortcut! This deficiency is serious because it affects productivity. The company serves
in sociology to link the shared rules of a community, with the individual needs of people. So much to introduce the single company in the clan. If this happens, the character will work better and produce more. So you need a plan (preferably accompanied by photos), a job description, identification cards of a suit or uniform if possible, a table, perhaps a nursery, a flag in the place of production, the establishment of the employee of the month, tickets for travel awards to deserving students, update the style of work by asking the employees / workers their opinion, reduce nervousness and "haste" (anything that ends). It also serves to explain and let people know how to act with others on balance and well known because it was written several times, a staff policy of this type breaks down an average of 12% cost management company.
This introduction serves to understand the German phenomenon, which is usually explained by numbers and numerical aspects / economic, but never on a human level then that is really the engine of all.
not that the Germans have invented something, are actually 80 years that it is discussed in the U.S., but have also translated in terms of union. In detail and how it will be listed soon, the "Harz package" was only possible because the German corporate structure, for years has been discussed and applied sociology, which he left swing of the pendulum from the co-management opportunities of the seventies, eighties to "full salary" of today.
We see the various aspects in order.
In the second quarter of this year, the system Germany has grown in terms of GDP by 2.2% against estimates, 1, 3%. Year over year, the development of German social wealth is 4.1% or more Eurostat has twice the area estimated for the EU.
The success "beyond the Alps" in the Central European region, there is not only the export, which represents the most immediate manifestation, but in reality the development is structural and the founds its origin in the choices that were taken immediately after 1992, at the time of reunification.
In fact, the German growth has taken such a rate that is now the highest since the reunification, because they have reached maturity in the organization of the crucial steps of the manufacturing system that it should be recalled, is the strongest in Europe. These key steps are:
a) in comparison with Italy, even for the same market sector, German companies are larger (to confirm the concept known as "Mittelstand" where you can find the hidden treasures of entrepreneurship German ingenuity and industriousness)
b) midsize companies are better in the global market and this was seen both in Asia and the Americas, whose recovery is stronger than Europe, because in these regions bear more adequate costs of internationalization, which are very strong in logistics, for the structuring of the sales network, and start-ups and finally the maintenance of relationship commercial
c) German industry was concentrated in areas less exposed to competition from developing countries. In this way he avoided that part of the dynamics of the produced goods where demand is traditionally lower and competition fierce,
d) the export of machinery to emerging countries is one of the strengths, and
) has been implemented, and not without difficulty, a subsidiary of relocation to the east (Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungary) for those segments of the labor-intensive production, which traditionally affects the competitiveness of their goods;
f) on this aspect should be considered but also a process of return home to some productions (not household utensils and appliances) in a position to offer the domestic market is low-cost commodity that more sophisticated level thereby enlarging the range of choice to the customer;
g) implementation in the legislation on the work of the "Harz package" which suggested, in industrial relations, a new level of comparison between the real wage, employment levels, investment in fixed assets and intangible, and finally the productivity of labor. In practice there are independent variables;
h) there is a strong support of the State in German exports.
