Ban-jang
The foreman who leads a working team of eight to fifteen people and owns its TACT for the week.
The Ban-jang is the operational heart of every Daewoo shop: the foreman who leads a working team and is the owner of that team’s TACT for the week.
At Okpo every foreman in the yard was taken off the floor for a three-month course in technical skill, leadership and communication. To the production heads it looked reckless. In retrospect it was the most consequential investment of the programme.
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See it in a caseDaewoo Okpo, 1987–1993 →
In the book§3.3 · §6.4, The Heartbeat of the Shipyard