Japanese Management

Each and every one of us have different types of approach over management. Many follow different strategies in their business and their policies. I would like to give you a brief content about the japanese business. I will be talking about the style of japanese management, how they organise plans, how they make decisions and more.
Briefly, the core of what is known as the Japanese style of management comes from an emphasis in Japanese society on building consensus in group decision making. In Japanese business (as in Japanese society), the group comes before the individual. Managers are, therefore, expected not to command employees but to lead them by consensus. In general, Japanese managers encourage their employees to make suggestions for improvement and to participate in an organization’s decision-making process—much more than in most American organizations. They take time to create buying, which then allows them to implement decisions much faster after a decision is made. They also tend to favor the development of long term relationships and strategies over short-term gain. In his book, Theory Z: How American Business Can Meet the Japanese Management Challenge (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publication Company, 1981), William Ouchi noted the following characteristics of Japanese organizations: lifetime employment (this has become difficult for many Japanese companies in recent years), slow employee evaluation and promotion, no specialized career paths, implicit control mechanisms, collective decision making, collective responsibility, and holistic concern for the employee as a person. To learn more about this approach to management, pick up a copy of
Ouchi’s book, or visit the Japanese Management Today web site at www.apmforum.com/japan/jmt.htm.