Organizational Management Case Study: Cultural Differences

Organizational Management

I. Conflict The conflict is how the two different country cultures differ from each other. It is very obvious that every company run things in different ways. The way that a company works depends on how the employees work together.

II. Resolution The two cultures learned to respect and appreciate their differences. They helped each other rather than fight and compete with each other, so they become successful. Their teamwork is a model to the workers and the managers who ultimately return to help Kazuhiro and Hunt achieve their goal.

III. Management approach Hunt Stevenson went to Japan because Assan Motors Corporation in Hadleyville, Pennsylvania, which supplied most of the town’s jobs, has been closed for nine months. As the former foreman for the auto plant, Hunt Stevenson goes to Tokyo to try to convince the Assan Motors Corporation to reopen the plant and produce their automobiles there. The North American plants shutting down to outsource for cheaper or better quality automobile production is a common repetition throughout North America. Especially during the recent bankruptcy that just happened, General Motors went bankrupt and Ford had to close several plants and fire many employees.

IV. Focus of the company Their focus

When Hunt Stevenson goes to meet with the Japan executives, they all give them a business card, a customary action during a Japanese business meeting, to which Hunt Stevenson faked. Japanese executives eat their lunches with chopsticks and bathe together in the river near the factory which the American works find both absurd. Finally one of the Japanese supervisors refuses to allow one of the American employees to take a newspaper into the bathroom to read which a trademark in American