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8.3.2 Role and Duty of Cross-Functional Management Committee
The main duty of the Cross-Functional Managment Committee is improvement,
management, establishment of Cross-Functional Management System like Quality,
Cost/ Profit, and Quantity/ Delivery Date, etc., and the problem of accompanying this
also is took up and promoted the improvement.
(1) Improvement and management of Cross-Functional Management System
(2) Discussion on basic policy and organization by Cross-Functions
(3) Plan and promotion of long term and annual plan of Cross-Functional
Management
(4) Promotion of solution of important problem on Cross-Functional Management
(5) Discussion and coordination of cooperative issue with another function
(6) Company-wide horizontal deployment of result on Cross-Functional Management
(7) Plan and execution of Cross-Functional diagnosis
8.3.3 Operation of Cross-Functional Management Committee
It is explained for major operational concerns;
(1) The chairman is assigned to executive director or managing director of function
charge and the committee member is directors with responsibility on function
related as few as possible, not necessary to cover to all organization member related.
It is sometime better to have another director not directly related but have enough
intelligence. The secretary is assigned one of director who is directly reporting to
this executive director, and secretary office is located at the function charge division
(superintendence division).
(2) Accordingly, directors in cross-function in charge (committee member) are
selected among division directors in charge as plural number, and division director
in charge takes charge of plural functions.
(3) It is assumed a regular organization (formal character), connects directly with the
top management zone like the board of managing directors and the Business
Management Conference, etc., and the substantial decision authority is given.
(4) This organization has the role of “Plan” and “Check”, and “Do” is executed by
Division Nanagement and line organization.
(5) As for physical operation or excuting phase, depending upon circustance, it is
organized Joint Function Committee and Expansion Function Committee by the
problem on the management side, moreover, it is organized specially for project
team and working group or special committee (Professional or Temporary) as lower
organization under Committee for responding on problem solution.
8.3.4 Cross-Functional Management Working Team
The physical execution matter on the promotion is advanced in the line
organization or the Cross-Functional Management Working Team so that the
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