Case Study Kelly's Assignment in Japan

Faced with major losses from operations, Sharp Corporation’s president, Mikio Katayama, questioned the whether it was necessary to reform the current business operating model. Sharp’s current operating model contained several flaws.  It placed sensitive, high-value-added operations such as research, development, and component manufacturing near its headquarters in Japan. Faced with threats such as intense industry competition, currency risks, very high transportation and utility costs, and extremely high infrastructure costs and high corporate tax rates, Sharp Corporation needs resources in the forms of new methods, technology, and approaches to doing business in the modern world. It is recommended that the company

The case study is about George Rosebush job situation at Nomura Securities International (NSI). In which Mr. Rosebush found himself working as an American sales trader. The company is based in Japan, but with intentions of entering the American market. They opened an office in New York and that is where Mr. Rosebush finds a job as a sales trader. The cultural shock Mr. Rosebush finds himself with is bigger than what he could have thought of. The Japanese make business in a much different way Americans do. To this he finds himself not knowing what to do and frustrated with the situation he is living in the company.

     During this time of crisis in America, the Japanese people in our country were done a huge injustice. They were stripped their constitutional rights, relocated to a location with poor living conditions, and when America apologized it was just too late. The mental and physical health impacts of this event continues to affect tens of thousands of Japanese

Productivity in the new culture is experienced to an extremely positive extent. Business dealings and negotiations become secondary nature to the expatriate, and the expatriate’s journey becomes a great success in the perspective of their employing company.

Language barriers are the biggest problems the mothers and daughters go through because they are not able to talk to each other correctly. The daughters speak mostly only English and the mothers speak mostly only Chinese, so the daughters and mother only know very little of each other language it’s difficult to talk about how each others feel. In the book cultural concepts like the Chinese heritage is hard to translate just like “ Joy Luck”. Chinese heritage is hard to translate because the biggest thing in Chinese heritage is knowing the Chinese language. The daughters in the book already don’t know a lot of Chinese their Chinese heritage was lost because of that. This language barrier is seen throughout the book, because the mothers could not speak english they tell stories instead to

During her 20 years with Job Link, Mrs. Bowman realized that change is difficult for most, if not all, individuals. Before change and development can occur, addressing personal issues/conflicts is required. Not only did Mrs. Bowman aid individuals in exploring jobs, obtaining job skills, and finding employment, Mrs. Bowman received an abundance of opportunities to aid individuals conquer their personal issues/conflicts that hindered their growth.

The Japanese people have an ugly history to confront, including not only Pearl Harbor but also the bombing of Shanghai, the rape of Nanking, the forced prostitution of Korean women, the horror of the Bataan death march, and the systematic torture and murder of American and other prisoners of war (Gar Alperovitz, 8).

The Australian government has many objectives in trading with Japan; external stability, sustainable economic growth, etc. Australia may gain external stability as in recent; the Japanese economy had been facing challenges over its energy policy, as well as other external risks. Australia is a major beneficiary of that issue as the Japanese government is encouraging firms to help assure energy and commodity supplies through increased investment in overseas natural resources. A sustainable economic growth may also be gained through trading with Japan.

He explains how Japan’s strict immigration policies have forced foreign workers to find ways around the system, which has placed the government in a tough position. This fits into my paper by examining how Japanese immigration laws can cause a moral and political problem for the Japanese government. For example, under current law, most legal foreign workers are covered (fully but in some cases partially) under Japan’s National Health Insurance Law (NHIL); however that brings a moral dilemma with regard to whether or not illegal workers should have the same benefits. Additionally, the lack of labor laws for illegal workers causes businesses to take advantage of the worker by exploiting them through discrimination and scare

Therefore, it is in the best interest of the firm to provide the employee with the necessary tools to support his or her reintegration. Furthermore, repatriation programs include the opportunity to discuss the employee’s role once he or she returns. Communicating to the employee the multitude of corporate changes that have taken place in regard to policies, titles, projects, teams and general corporate structure while he or she has been away is an important way to be sure the employee is aware of how they will fit back into their domestic corporate environment. It would be easy to see how an employee might feel that because so many changes have taken place that perhaps a suitable position might not exist for him upon return. Keeping the employee abreast of all changes is an important way to alleviate the stress of returning to his or her home country.

The chosen company is Onward Kashiyama Singapore is the subsidiaries of Onward Kashiyama Japan, they open their second subsidiaries in US and third subsidiaries in Hongkong. Onward Kashiyama is also the retail company that handles Charles and Keith Japan. They have resort, hotel and factory. They primary business activities is branding, retailing and producing goods, which is clothing line for unisex. The onward Kashiyama Singapore is holding the clothing line brand of Rosebullet, J press, Dip Drops, ICb, and anySiS. The reason to write this is because of the experience that having to handle the human resources department while working with Onward Kashiyama Singapore given the information of good strategy for Human Resources that can be applied to the company. The company starts on 2004 as SMe company in Shaw

In the first phase (1974- 1984), research about returnees’ educational and social problems (i.e., reception by Japanese, adjustment problem, bullying, etc.) became conspicuous. Returnees are thought as people who are placed in an educationally disadvantageous position. Thus returnees’ entrance examination system were originally set up for offering opportunities for those who could not receive Japanese education due to their family reasons (e.g. parents’ job transfor). Therefore, in studies in this period, researchers treated returnee children as a source of educational “problem” (Sueda, 2014, p.60). In the Expansion phase (1985-1989), researchers began to focus on psychological aspects such as adjustment and readjustment problems (e.g., Minoura, 1984) and relationship between returnees’ identity formation (e.g., Horoiwa, 1987). In the third phase (after 1990), there was a shift in the viewpoint for returnees. Researchers such as Goodman (1990) claimed that returnees are not the “problem” or “victims”, but they are a “new elite class”. Since Japan was shifting its direction towards internationalization and globalization at that time, returnees –were often seen as people with bilingual and bicultural abilities– and were seen as a symbol of the “internationalization” of

The purpose of this research is to evaluate the effectiveness of a set of the recent Japanese government policies. Before China overtaking the second largest economy in the world in 2011, Japan has kept the position for several decades. However, after the housing bubbles burst in 1990s, Japan had economically struggled where it can no longer grow at such a substantial rate as previously. In fact, its economy had shrunk when other neigbouring economies, such as Taiwan and South Korea, had prospered. So Abe Shinzo was elected as the prime minister of Japan and he has tried to revive the economy under Abenomics; yet, its impacts on the real economy seem ineffective until recently. This is why I think it will be interesting to evaluate whether Abenomics was the best option for Japanese government for reviving the economy from the prolonged recession.

“Culture is defined as the collective mental programming of the human mind which distinguishes one group of people from another. Statements about culture do not describe “reality”; they are all general and relative”. So depending on the person, everyone see things in a different view. According to the case study the question is asked: How does culture and environment affect institutions and their management? I will define the problem of what went wrong during Ms. Myers tenure from my point of view. I will explain the problem Ms. Myers is encountering using Hofstede's five dimensions of culture to compare Korean and American assumptions about interpersonal

The main issue in case study 4-7 focuses on what the Japan company Nippon Cash Machines and their recent US merger National Office Machines should do to their Japanese sales force who has always followed a salary based payment plan and lifetime job security because they are quickly loosing market share in a highly competitive market. Therefore, the main statement for the case is as follows: