Japanese Management Style

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University of International Business Japanese management style Prepaired by Romanenko Diana 212 group, finance Checked by Zhussupova Zh. M. Almaty, 2009 Plan. 1. The Traditional Japanese Management System 2. External Forces Shaping Japanese Management Practices 3. Summary of External Forces Shaping Japanese Management Practices 4. A period of enormous change 5. List of literature I. The Traditional Japanese Management System From a review of the existing literature Keys and Miller (1984) identified five streams of thought which were influential in depicting Japanese management practice. These themes included "excellence in manufacturing management" (Hayes, 1981), "quality circles as an innovative and motivating technique" (Rehder, 1981), "statistical quality control as the key to productive effectiveness" (Deming, 1980), "a long planning horizon" (Anderson, 1981; Drucker, 1981) and "consensus decision making, as a form of participative management" (Ouchi, 1981). [pic] Four additional streams of thought about Japanese management went beyond the single-factor approaches to develop broader, more comprehensive conceptualizations. Ouchi (1981) described Japanese organizations as..."characterized by lifetime employment, slow evaluation and promotion, nonspecialized career paths, implicit control mechanisms, collective decision making, collective responsibility, and holistic concern for employees" Hatvany and Pucik (1981) suggested that the success of Japanese business was linked to a strategy that maximized its human resources through the development of an internal labor market, the creation of a corporate culture that promotes group values and cooperation, and the implementation of an intensive socialization process for incorporating new employees into the organization. Durlabhji (1983) made a notable attempt at holistic modeling of
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