Effects of Japanese investment in a small American community:

adjust American culture American employees American workers assembly line assembly plants associate with American attitudes to foreign autoparts plants autoplants Blount County changes consensus correlated cross-cultural CTDs culture shock cumulative trauma disorders Cumulative Trauma Incident cumulative trauma injuries cumulative trauma problem Denso East Tennessee engineers English Environmental Coordinator ergonomic committee ergonomic efforts expectations experience factors favorable follow-up foreign investment globalization heijunka hired homesick husband implemented improve income Interstate 75 Japan Japanese auto Japanese companies Japanese firms Japanese investment Japanese management practices Japanese manufacturing Japanese wives job rotations joint venture management lifetime employment located machine major Maryville Maryville College Mazda negative nemawashi Noel Tichy overseas positive probability level Production System production technicians Question questionnaire Rachel Moore ramp-up respondents ringi Rubenstein skills standardized stress takt team leaders team system Toyota Toyota Production System Trauma Incident Rate United vehicle