Gung-Ho Means “Work Together”
Gung-Ho means “Work together”
Introduction
Gung Ho demonstrates a cross-cultural relationship between the Americans and the Japanese people working together towards the goal. In this movie, a Japanese car manufacturer company takes over an American car manufacturing plant. The American workers were in conflict with the Japanese style of management.
Situation
Hunt Stevenson takes the leadership role and becomes the liaison between the Japanese executive team and the American workers. At first, the workers were working at their usual pace and did not meet the productivity numbers as expected.
Before the arrival of the Japanese executives, the organization structure of the plant was “Work Specialization”.
• Every worker was assigned to do a specific task.
• Each worker performs a repetitive task.
• Each worker is specialized in his own part of work.
After the arrival of the Japanese team, the manager set out new rules and restructures the work as “Job Redesign”. The manger wanted the workers to learn new skills and able to do more than one specific task.
However, the workers were not respecting the Japanese executives and they felt that the new work structure was more impose rather than implementing. They were not happy with this and felt very dissatisfy with their jobs.
Job Redesign usually takes some time to see the results, but in the case as shown in movie, the executives were not allowing time for the change of improvement. After a while, the productivity was still not increasing and the Japanese felt that they need to take action. By doing so, they were to layff workers or closing down the plant.
Hunt learned that the Japanese have plans to close down the plant and realized that hundreds of workers would be left without jobs. He decided to offer a proposal so that the Japanese would not close down the plant so soon.
However, the workers were not used to this new way leading them to feel dissatisfy with their jobs.
The Japanese
Introduction
Gung Ho demonstrates a cross-cultural relationship between the Americans and the Japanese people working together towards the goal. In this movie, a Japanese car manufacturer company takes over an American car manufacturing plant. The American workers were in conflict with the Japanese style of management.
Situation
Hunt Stevenson takes the leadership role and becomes the liaison between the Japanese executive team and the American workers. At first, the workers were working at their usual pace and did not meet the productivity numbers as expected.
Before the arrival of the Japanese executives, the organization structure of the plant was “Work Specialization”.
• Every worker was assigned to do a specific task.
• Each worker performs a repetitive task.
• Each worker is specialized in his own part of work.
After the arrival of the Japanese team, the manager set out new rules and restructures the work as “Job Redesign”. The manger wanted the workers to learn new skills and able to do more than one specific task.
However, the workers were not respecting the Japanese executives and they felt that the new work structure was more impose rather than implementing. They were not happy with this and felt very dissatisfy with their jobs.
Job Redesign usually takes some time to see the results, but in the case as shown in movie, the executives were not allowing time for the change of improvement. After a while, the productivity was still not increasing and the Japanese felt that they need to take action. By doing so, they were to layff workers or closing down the plant.
Hunt learned that the Japanese have plans to close down the plant and realized that hundreds of workers would be left without jobs. He decided to offer a proposal so that the Japanese would not close down the plant so soon.
However, the workers were not used to this new way leading them to feel dissatisfy with their jobs.
The Japanese