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The article discusses the Japanese style of production management in Great Britain. The main method used for studying Japanese management in Britain is by obtaining workers' perceptions. Information has been obtained both by means of personal interviews and be self-completion questionnaires, from one medium-sized Japanese factory and from two smaller factories. At the supervisory level, a distinction generally regarded as important is between close and general control over work. Close supervision involves maintaining continuous contact with the production line, so that the individual worker's performance is visible to the supervisor most of the time, while general supervision involves greater emphasis on planning and other activities off the shop-floor. Supervisors in the Japanese-owned factories seemed to be required to work in both of these modes. Great attention was paid to the planning and organization of work, yet there was also great emphasis on close involvement with the production line or section.