The Japanese welcome business people from abroad and take pride in delivering high quality products. The Japanese strive off being highly motivated, resourceful, and very industrious. Respect, honor, courtesy and patient are virtues held dear.
Japanese having had a very unique culture and also good at mixing other cultures with theirs. As a result of this blending, they come out their own identity. For this, China was the most importantly influenced. “Buddhist and Confucian” philosophy is the basic framework that Japanese use to develop they way of thinking. Buddhist was contributing the way of life. The Confusion taught the Japanese about traditional value, external values and harmony within the society, whilst at the same time emphasizing the collective aspect of the social order.
In the company analysis, the terms flat and tall are use to describe the levels of spans of control on a hierarchy of management.
Hierarchy is extremely important in Japanese corporate culture. Relative status in organization determines how members interact with each other and how they expect others to interact with them..
The tall structure includes a hierarchy of many levels and with very small or narrow spans of control. It produces very close supervision and very careful control. Power is held at the top and is shared among a limited number of individual. Individuals on top are depended on the skill, initiative and daring and