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The Spirit of Toilet Cleaning: Escape from the Endless Competition for Differentiation

In: Cleaning and Corporate Management

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  • Shin Ohmori

    (Otemae University)

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Even today, a number of Japanese companies stress cleaning and tidying tasks, among them many that set great store by toilet-cleaning in particular. This chapter will show that the spirit that is given life through cleaning, and especially through the ordinariness—or “bonji”—of cleaning the toilet, may have developed into an ethos that helped fortify Japanese companies. We will also see how the spirit that underlies cleaning—namely the resolution to give one’s all to one’s work even when no on one is watching—can penetrate every aspect of an organization until it is permeated with humility, awareness, and sensitivity, and that this became the driving force for the growth of modern Japanese companies.

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  • Shin Ohmori, 2023. "The Spirit of Toilet Cleaning: Escape from the Endless Competition for Differentiation," Springer Books, in: Cleaning and Corporate Management, chapter 0, pages 17-29, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-99-0761-8_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-0761-8_2
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