Essays on Japanese Management

Business

2016-07-28

Introduction

This paper is devoted to the company Nissan Motor Company Ltd. and its management system. The great attention is paid to the operations management, supply chain, inventory management and other aspects, which can significantly impact on the company’s effectiveness. Nissan is currently demonstrating a steady growth in terms of volume of production and sales, as well as developing its technologies in different fields. Nowadays, the company Nissan produces cars in twenty countries around, which include Japan, USA, England, Spain, India, Brazil, Mexico, Russia and others. Sales are conducted in more than one hundred and sixty countries. Company ...

The movies Mr. baseball and Gung Ho are very insightful as far as cultural interaction is concerned. The movies provide a clear and vivid description about the differences between American culture and Japanese culture.mr. Baseball is basically the embodiment of American culture trying to coexist with Japanese culture while gung ho is the mirror opposite in that it is the depiction of Japanese culture trying to inculcate itself into the American culture. Both movies are very important in terms of understanding both American culture and Japanese culture. These movies present the perfect juxtaposition of these two cultures that exist at ...

Advantages/benefits

a) After Japan’s strenuous and prolonged struggle with depression all the way through the 1990’s, nevertheless, numerous spectators, whether outside or inside Japan have questioned the efficiency of some customary Japanese administrative strategies. Example: Numerous of these methods were attributed with assisting to uplift the Japanese financial system to its existing position as the world’s next largest after the United Sates of America, and thus enabling the Japanese businesses, in particular the manufacturing segment, to be more aggressive than their international equivalent.

b) As a consequence, during the 21st century, the Japanese administrative modus operandi are ever in a state ...

With the financial predicament still rampant, the American model of management which has come under greater inspection. The recent financial predicament was heralded by a number of corporate scandals such as Enron, WorldCom and the impoverishment of the American auto business. But as compared with some numerous companies from the developing nations, they succeeded in supporting flourishing international development while having little conventionality with the set of guidelines of management in effect across the Atlantic. But the billion dollar question begs says Mauro (2009, p. 167). Is this the closing stages of the American model of management? And is it ...

General Overview

As the world business becomes more competitive, companies are forced to adopt the new technologies that can help in improving the quality of their products. Competitive Intelligence is important in business as it provides very strategic ideas on how a company can improve its success. The company’s Competitive Intelligence gives it a very strategic vision that calls for the implementation of the changes in the business processes, the organizational and managerial systems, and the products (Bloom, 1997). For any positive change to be realized in a company, CI must be the requirement. The implementation of such changes calls for very effective ...