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Japanese Management Style

This research reviews the Japanese style of manufacturing management. Management problem solving approaches, leadership styles, worker attitudes and thinking processes, and inventory and production management techniques are addressed. The approach in this review to the development of an understanding of the Japanese style of management is to compare Japanese managerial practices with American managerial practices.

Japanese managers take the theories they find and put them to use (Chen, 1995, pp. 180-196). A theory of work as meaningful living prepares employees for socialization into groups, as does the belief that the company has a legitimate social mission. Powerful managers who demand that employees participate and do not worry about little mistakes motivate the development a strong team spirit. The same team approach occurs, however, in American companies that cultivate the same ideas about work, the company, power, and failure.

These ideas are not strange to most Americans (Sullivan, 1992, pp. 66-87). They have just been strange to American managerial elites, and to the doctrinaire economists who provide them with theories. The American managerial elites and their supporting economists see work as a disutility, the company as a wealth-generating machine for owners, managing as the implementation of behaviorist stimulus-response processes, a worker as a kind of purposeful pigeon, failure as a spur to competitiveness, and groups as barriers to functional economic exchange in the labor market. If employees have allegiance to groups beyond their own individual self interest, the efficiencies of a market mechanism supposedly begin to break down.

Although Japanese are more collective than Americans, they do not abandon their human identity and submerge it in the group (Sullivan, 1992, pp. 66-87). Japanese group identity is based on shared behaviors and tasks, not on shared cultural values or allegiances. When a Japa...

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Japanese Management Style. (1969, December 31). In LotsofEssays.com. Retrieved 09:50, March 28, 2024, from https://www.lotsofessays.com/viewpaper/1695863.html