Trends in Japanese management: continuing strengths, current problems and changing priorities
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Tables viii
List of Figures x
Preface xi
1 The Context of Japanese Management 1
Introduction 1
The subject of analysis 2
Features of Japanese corporations 4
Contemporary trends 9
Differences in management systems: three models 14
Criticisms of the Japanese management system 19
The wider social, political and economic environment 29
Summary 38
2 Corporate Governance and Top Management 43
Issues of corporate governance 43
Three models of corporate governance 46
Contemporary trends 51
Distribution of shareholders and business groups 52
General meeting of shareholders and the top
management structure 56
Age of directors and corporate executive officers 63
Top management decision making and leadership styles 66
Survey of top management behaviour 70
Management problems 73
Summary 74
3 Goals and Philosophies 77
Corporate governance, goals and creeds 77
Japanese corporate goals 82
Corporate philosophies and creeds 85
Contemporary trends 92
Summary 106
4 Product Mix and New Product Development 108
Areas of corporate strategy 108
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The concept of product mix and diversification 109
Diversification and performance 112
Diversification and resource structure 115
New product development 122
Contemporary trends 131
Problems with the Japanese system from an
external perspective 138
Summary 142
5 Strategic Alliance and Vertical Integration 145
Concept and types of alliance 145
Characteristics of alliances 153
Contemporary trends 158
Success and failure factors in alliances 158
Summary 166
6 Multinational Management 167
Concept and types of multinational management 167
Two types of strategy 168
Survey data on performance 170
Features of Japanese multinational management 172
Transferability of Japanese systems and practices 175
Contemporary trends 177
Control systems 178
Factors in success and failure 181
Problems with overseas operations 185
Summary 190
7 Competition Strategy 192
Concept and models 192
Features of Japanese competition strategy 193
Contemporary trends ¦ 196
Problems with competition 200
Summary 202
8 Planning and Decision Making 203
Features of Japanese decision making 203
Survey of long term planning 208
The part played by Japanese firms in Japan s
economic problems 210
Contemporary trends 215
Contents vii
Summary 217
9 Organisational Structure and Processes 219
Core competencies 220
Strong head offices create core competencies 221
Hybrid divisional structures 227
The debate on structure and performance 231
Organisational structure and strategy 235
The creative organisation 241
Contemporary trends 246
Summary 248
10 Personnel Management 251
Personnel management systems 251
Lifetime employment 253
Flexible role definition, the dual promotion
ladder and the internal labour market 256
Appraisal and training: the learning organisation 261
Remuneration 267
Contemporary trends 270
Employee commitment 278
Summary 282
11 Conclusion 284
Appendixl: Types of Strategic Decisions 287
Appendix 2: Companies Responding to the
Mail Survey, 1995 288
Appendix 3: The Functions of the Head Office in
Successful Japanese Companies 289
Bibliography and Suggestions for Further Reading 291
Index 310
List of Tables
1.1 Features of the Japanese management system 5
1.2 Problems with the Japanese management system 20
1.3 Economic and social performance, selected countries 21
1.4 R D spending, personnel and patent applications 35
1.5 Breakdown of the 205 manufacturing companies
in our sample 42
2.1 Three models of corporate governance 48
2.2 New trends in corporate governance in Japan 52
2.3 Distribution of shareholders 53
2.4 Features of top management, board of directors
and auditors 58
2.5 Areas of expertise of presidents and directors 64
2.6 Top management styles 67
2.7 Leaderships style of the president in group
decision making situations 71
2.8 Skills and behaviour required of a company president 71
3.1 Features of corporate goals 78
3.2 The corporate creed and vision of successful companies 81
3.3 Survey of corporate creeds 88
3.4 A broad classification of social responsibility and
required level of behaviour 94
3.5 Examples of a standard of social responsibility index 95
3.6 Unethical business practices 101
3.7 ROE of 373 Japanese manufacturing companies 103
3.8 Two cases of EVA 105
4.1 Types of diversification by synergy and performance,
1983 93 113
4.2 The effects of product differentiation 114
4.3 Transition or product market strategy and structure,
by number of companies 116
4.4 Assumptions about the fit between strategy and
structure 117
4.5 Types of diversification, top management, R D
expenditure and other strategies 118
4.6 Transition of strategy and structure at Canon 119
4.7 Classification of new products 123
List of Tables ix
4.8 Concurrent engineering and sequential engineering 126
5.1 Types of alliance by the extent of integration 146
6.1 Two models of multinational production 164
6.2 Foreign production ratio, other strategies and
performances of the 205 companies in the sample 171
6.3 Foreign production by Matsushita Electric 172
6.4 Success factors and failure factors 183
7.1 Comparison of features of the Japanese and US
competition strategies 194
8.1 Areas of planning 204
8.2 Features of Japanese and American decision making 205
8.3 Responses to the survey of long term planning 208
9.1 Examples of core competencies 221
9.2 Size of the head office: ratio of head office personnel
to total employees 223
9.3 Divisional organisational structures 227
9.4 Fitting the organisational structure to the
corporate strategy 232
9.5 Characteristics of creative individuals and
organizations 242
10.1 Features of Japanese and American human resource
management 252
10.2 Example of an appraisal schedule 262
10.3 Evaluation items and their weighting at managerial
and core staff level 263
10.4 Specialist career courses at Toyota 274
10.5 Appraisal system at Kirin Brewery 276
10.6 Two models of employee commitment 279
10.7 Survey of job satisfaction 279
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