William Ouchi
William G. Ouchi
(born 1943) is a researcher in the field of business management, an American professor and
the author of famous management book
Theory Z.
William Ouchi first came to prominence for his
studies of the differences between Japanese and American companies and
management styles. His first popular book in 1981 summarized his
observations.
Theory Z:
How American Management Can Meet the Japanese Challenge made the
'best-seller' lists, and remained there for five months. His second
book, The M Form Society: How American Teamwork Can Recapture the
Competitive Edge, examined various techniques implementing that
approach.
William Ouchi proposed 3
approaches to control in an organization's management:
- Market control
- Bureaucratic control
- Clan control
In recent years William Ouchi has turned his
attention to the organization and effectiveness of schools and issues of
school district administration. He published an overview in 2003 in
Making Schools Work. He chaired an education reform panel for Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, and some of his proposals are being
considered currently. In the 1990s, he served in the administration of
former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan.
In
Theory Z, Ouchi
describes the art of Japanese management and shows how it can be adapted
to American companies. He takes readers behind the scenes at several
U.S. corporations making the
Theory Z change and
shows step-by-step how the transition works. Ouchi also examines the
corporate philosophies that have become blueprints for Theory Z success,
and looks at the evolving culture of “Z” people in society.
Professor Ouchi's new theory of management promises to change the way
managers and employees alike think about their jobs, their companies,
and their working lives.
Theory Z, according to the best management
minds in America, will soon take its rightful place in everyone's
business vocabulary
William Ouchi
William G. Ouchi (born 1943) is an
American professor and author in the field of business management.
William Ouchi was born and raised in
Honolulu, Hawaii. He earned a B.A. from Williams College (1965), an MBA
from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the
University of Chicago. William Ouchi was a Stanford business school
professor for 8 years and has been a faculty member of the Anderson
School of Management at University of California, Los Angeles for many
years.
Biography of William Ouchi
William G. Ouchi is the Sanford & Betty
Sigoloff Professor in Corporate Renewal at The Anderson Graduate School
of Management at UCLA. He previously served as Vice Dean of the school
and as Chair of the Strategy and Organization Area of the school. He is
the author of four books and of scholarly articles on organization and
management. His first book was Theory Z: How American Management Can
Meet the Japanese Challenge (Addison-Wesley, 1981). Theory Z was on the
best seller list for five months, has been published in 14 foreign
editions, and ranks as the seventh most widely held book of the twelve
million titles held in 4,000 U.S. libraries. His second book, The M-Form
Society: How American Teamwork Can Recapture the Competitive Edge
(Addison-Wesley, 1984), reports on a three year effort by a team of 16
researchers led by Professor Ouchi. The M-Form Society has appeared in
four foreign editions to date. His third book, Organizational Economics
(Jossey-Bass, 1986), was co-edited with Jay B. Barney. His fourth book,
Making Schools Work, will be published in September of 2003 by Simon &
Schuster.
Dr. Ouchi was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he graduated
from the Punahou School in 1961. He received his B.A. at Williams
College (1965), his M.B.A. at Stanford (1967), and his Ph.D. in business
administration at the University of Chicago (1972). He has been a member
of the faculties at the University of Chicago, Stanford University, and
UCLA from 1979 to the present. During 1993-95 he served as advisor and
then as Chief of Staff to Mayor Richard Riordan in Los Angeles. From
1996-1999 he served as Vice Dean for Executive Education of the Anderson
School.
At UCLA, Professor Ouchi teaches courses in management and in
organization design. He was Co-Chair of the UCLA School Management
Program. He continues as Chairman of the Riordan Programs, which serve
minority high school and college students in Southern California and
also is the founder of the Nissan-HBCU Summer Institute, which serves
the professoriate of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities of
the U.S. He is Chair of the George and Kimiko Nozawa Endowment, which
grants scholarships to students from Japan. Professor Ouchi also serves
on several other committees and boards of the Graduate School of
Management, supervises doctoral candidates, and carries on his own
research on the management of K-12 schools.
In service to the profession, Professor Ouchi has served on the
editorial boards of four scholarly journals and serves as advisor to
several granting agencies. He serves on the boards of AECOM, KCET public
television, Allegheny Technologies, Water-Pik Technologies, FirstFed
Financial, Sempra Energy, The Japanese American National Museum and the
Advisory Board of the Commission on Presidential Debates. He also serves
on the board and is past Chair of Los Angeles Educational Alliance for
Restructuring Now (LEARN) and past Co-Chair of the Los Angeles County
Alliance for Student Achievement. He is an advisor to the Joint
Senate-Assembly Committee on Preparing California for the 21st Century,
and is a past member of the Consumer Advisory Committee of the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Executive Advisory Board of
the Asian Business League of Southern California. Professor Ouchi
resides in Santa Monica, California with his wife. They have three
children.
References
http://www.williamouchi.com/bio.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ouchi
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