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不穿裤子的云 @ 2008-11-01 00:13

     谨以此篇小report 献给和我一起上international management 的同学  谢谢你们
谢谢我们的老师 Philip Rose 

1.
     
Introduction

This report is going to analysis the movie Gung Ho relative to Hofstede’s cultural dimensions. Then give suggestions on what things can American’ learn from the Japanese way of business management, and what can the Japanese learn from the American style of Business management.

     2.  Hofstede’s cultural dimensions

2.1 High and Low power distance business culture

According to Hofstede’s (1986) power distance dimension which focused on how a society deals with the fact that people are unequal in physical and intellectual capability, high power distance cultures were found in countries that put more emphasis on the development of personal ability than the power and wealth, while the low power distance cultures pay more attention to the restraint forces of power. For example in the beginning of the movie, in Japan, the Japanese managers who failed were facing the punishment with all kinds of shame sticking on their cloth. And even being strapped liked they are slaves but no one ever resisted. Also the organization in Japan shows clear differences in rank, people from different level behave different ways. All these apparently show that Japan is a high power distance culture country.

Workers in American can have more flexibility in their workplaces, they can dance, listen to music when they are working (showed in the movie), and rank differences ignore in certain situations, for example the manager Hunt was the manager in the factory but outside the work, Hunt and his workers are friends. Those indicate that American is a low power distance culture.        

2.2 Individual and collective business culture

Hofstede (1986), states that in individualistic societies, the ties between the individuals were loose and individual achievement and freedom were highly valued. In societies where collectivism was emphasized, people integrated into strong groups and everyone was supposed to look after the interest of his or her collective.

There are many scenes in the movie show the individual and collective business culture differences between Japan and American. The most impressive one maybe that Kenji’s wife ask he to assemble the bicycle which is a birthday gift for his son, but he refuse because he’s busying in working, his wife became mad at him that she shouted “why American man can have time for their children.” It clearly shows that Japanese are so collective that they can even sacrifice their family for the interest of the company. While the Americans whom showed more individual seldom or won’t do that. Also doing the Japanese morning exercise together is also new to individual culture countries like Americans.     

2.3 Masculine and Feminine business culture

Hofstede (1986) suggests that in masculine cultures, social gender roles are significant different, tough values like achievement, assertiveness and competition, determined cultural ideals. In feminine cultures, sex roles were less sharply distinguished. We can see in the movie the role Japanese men and women played in life are totally different, men work outside and women take care of the house and children at home. In American little differentiation was made between men and women. We can found out in the scene that when the men are going to have a meeting after dinner in Kenji’s home, the wife of Japanese men left right away, but Hunt’s girl friend stay still and had no willing to leave. It shows that Japan is more masculine and American more feminine.     

2.4 Low and High uncertainty avoidance business culture

     Hofstede (1986) says that uncertainty avoidance dimension measured the extent to which the members of a culture feel threatened by unknown or uncertain situation. The movie shows that Japan is high uncertainty avoidance and American is low uncertainty. As you can see when Hunt invites Kenji to play baseball, and the day the Japanese show out in tiny uniform suit, then warm up and so on, in a word, everything is in order, certainly under some instructions. While the Americans look more easygoing, leisure suits as usual, not frighten of uncertainty.    

 

    3.  Recommendation

    In my opinion, proper collectivism is good for American because it can make workers more loyal to the company which will improve the efficiency. And Japanese should give more free to their workers, instructions, orders should give as less as possible, create a low uncertain avoidance environment can inspire ideas and innovation. However, when we learn something from different countries or cultures, it is important that we should integrate the theory with our local practice or fact.        

 

    4.  References

Movie:Gung Ho

Book: Hofstede (1986),”The Cultural relativity of Organizational Practices and Theories”

   




 
不穿裤子的云 @ 2008-09-24 12:59

本周二 也就是昨天 原本要召开的社员大会 因为部分会员要晚训 所以取消掉了
改换成 播放影片《Beyond the glory:Dennis Rodman
时间 9月23号晚19点40分
地点 公一#321

虽然由于不明原因 晚训取消掉了 
但是 来看电影的并不多 额~ 屈指可数(大概是被新西方还是新北方的教兽给抓走了)
想起 在外婆家 跟外婆去看戏的日子
外婆的蒲扇 小椅头 松垮的背心 脏兮兮的拖鞋...
大家聚在一起看电影的日子 很开心
珍惜每一个跟所爱的人在一起的日子 每一分每一秒

出于对女生的照顾
特地提出了 军训期间 所有女会员都可以申请协会自行车 接送至活动现场的特权
哈哈 我觉得我是天才







 
不穿裤子的云 @ 2008-09-14 17:12

               SCREW街头篮球协会 
      面向厦门大学嘉庚学院全院同学全面启动纳新活动。

     08年9月24日前,有意加入者请发送电子版到报名邮箱,或拨打纳新咨询电话联系我们。24日未交表格者将视为自动放弃,敬请各位同学掌握好时间。 (保护树木,拒收纸张报名表)

社团QQ群:92762455
报名邮箱:375509257@qq.com
附:SCREW街头篮球协会 纳新表
纳新咨询电话:13459595109  (施)

社团简介: 

厦门大学嘉庚学院SCREW街头篮球协会成立于2007年12月21日。

不想被束缚,不想被忽略,不想被遗忘。于是SCREW诞生了。

永远忠于兄弟们。在任何时候,都不会欺骗和出卖他们。一定会竭尽全力保护他们——协会永远的宗旨。


各部门分工及职责:

人力资源部:该部的主要职能是协助主席团做好人事调动、社员监督和社员培训工作。同时负责社团人员档案管理,绩效考核,年度评优及表彰大会工作。

组织部:该部主要负责社团一切活动的准备及善后工作,主要涉及的工作为社团活动提出策划,安排人员准备活动,联系其它部门共同协作完成活动。

外联部:该部门是社团对外交流的一条桥梁,通过外联部,社团与合作公司、企业,外校社团以及学校其它各方面组织取得联系。为社团的对外交流,合作和校内的活动筹备迈开坚实的第一步。

宣传部: 该部门主要负责社团的网站建设、活动宣传、社团文化传承及传播,沟通社团内部,促进对外交流,为社团树立良好的对内、对外形象。

财务部:该部门主要负责社团的一切财务活动,涉及社团的财产管理、物资采购以及资金运作等活动。


                        SCREW街头篮球协会




 
不穿裤子的云 @ 2008-09-12 12:38

SCREW街头篮球协会 
月圆,人圆,球圆,心更圆!
中秋节大型宣传活动全面启动

活动方式

请以跟帖的形式写出你对 街头篮球 的 了解。(想写什么就写什么吧 哈哈 祝福之类的)

活动时间

9月12--9月14

活动限制

由于社团经费有限 及 协会工作人员精力有限 此次活动仅限于 厦门大学嘉庚学院 06-08级 同学参与。

请参加活动的同学 在 回帖上 或以 小纸条 的方式写明个人资料,包括真实姓名、地址、电话,没有联系方式的当自动弃权本次奖品。
举例: 施玮琪 丰庭9--*** TEL:15********* 

此活动最终解释权归SCREW所有。

评奖方式
 

SCREW
会在所有参与活动的同学中抽出大奖,送上协会神秘礼品。

最后谨代表协会全体成员 在这里祝大家中秋节快乐!! 身体健康!!




 
不穿裤子的云 @ 2008-09-11 20:10

如果你还在为没有理想队友而迷茫
如果你还在为自己的球艺不精而烦恼
如果你还在担心自己力量单薄而退缩
那么加入我们吧  加入SCREW吧
我们的实力无庸质疑 

be myself 
be a team 

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不穿裤子的云 @ 2008-08-26 23:47

i was too tired to write this dairly
afraid to open my eyes cause it happened too fast
they just cant wait for a moment
time is money 
speed is all they have
police they fear ,money they care, custumers they steel