I was just wondering if the sole criterion for your proclamation of superiority of Japanese management was this car and vanilla ice-cream story. I would just like to point out that though this is an actual story but the car company in question was not a Japanese company. Instead the car in question was a Pontiac owned by none other than General Motors of USA. :-) So shall I construe that American approach of management is superior to the Japanese one.
XL has a very good course which talks precisely about the question asked here.. The course - Cross Cultural Management - has the study of 7 different countries in terms of their culture and its impact on mangement and HRM practives
The article says that Indian B schools do not teach difference between American management and Japanese management. Well, it may be an exception, but my little unknown B-school did have an entire discussion and even a case study and a quiz on this topic.
I completed my PGDBA in 1998 from IMIS, Bhubaneswar
It was a really good piece of info.But still down in my heart there is a question...What would a guy from Indian management school do in similar situations?
i relly do not understand what the author is comparing ! he did not say how the american style woould have been if there were to face the same car problem.
These days, we hear and read so much about the very high salaries being offered to IIM graduates,who have absolutely no experience of managing, failing or succeeding in doing anything. The salary offered are almost senselessly high and vulgar! Perhaps, they are a gimmick of promoting the IIMs themselves. Points: 1. Why does Indian Govt. not open IIMs immediately at every city, town and village and compel all students to graduate, so as to wipe out poverty in India. Why, even other countries, notably the African countries can also follow suit. 2. Experience seems to have completely become superfluous. 3. I have personally worked with IIMA and other IIM graduates, and they were/are all absolutely normal executives you could find in any organisation, they soon and repeatedly changed jobs also. 4. I have also been informed that many large companies/corporations employing IIM graduates on very high salaries did not do well and some in fact went bankrupt or had to be sold out.
The only outstanding features of all such IIM graduates were that they had mastered the management jargon, they had good table manners, and could often impress the stewarts.
the illustration was very much informative and thought provoking. One should do some research before jump into conclusion. The engineer did the same. Lucky that the car driver returned so fast only when he was buying the vanila ice cream. The problem could have worsened if he stopped the car for a quick return on any other purposes like stoping at an empty ATM counter.
