traditional ways of doing business. The cultural change is starting to affect traditional values in Japan: Companies started to fire older workers‚ The younger tended not to be tied to a company for life‚ to be a “salaryman”. 2. Japan’s changing culture might influence the way Japanese business operate in the future: Companies will have to modify traditional practices. Instead of paying bonus and salary based almost entirely on seniority‚ this would be based on performance. In the past‚
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Culture and Moral Values: Are they changing? As we enter into a new world of technology our culture and moral values are simultaneously fading away with every new invention. We seem to be forgetting the important things in life. Reading the works of William Wordsworth and other poetic authors‚ some people may start to see how men and women cherished life and nature at one point in time. Today‚ we look at nature as if it is meant to be slaves for our needs in order to provide us with food‚ water
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Panasonic and Japans Changing Culture In Japan in 1918 Konosuke Matsushita founded Matsushita Electric a consumer electronics company which is known today as Panasonic. Panasonic has offices in 58 different countries and is regarded as one of the world’s largest electronics companies. (Panasonic‚ 2013) Panasonic alike many other Japanese companies was established on a Confucian value system. The Confucian value system consists of three main elements; reciprocal obligations‚ honesty and loyalty
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1. What was life like at "old" British Airways? • Employees were embarrassed to mention they worked for the company. • British Airways stumbled into its 1979 state of inefficiency in large part because of its history and culture. • British Airways faced the worst crisis in its history in the late 1970’s early 1980’s. • Unless they took immediate action they were heading for a loss of at least £100 million within that present financial year. • They faced the potential that by that following
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Changing Culture at Pizza Hut and Yum! Brands‚ Inc. The concept of corporate culture has captured the imagination of executives for years. For executives struggling to manage organizational change‚ understanding their organization’s culture has become paramount before undertaking such a change. They realize that significant strategic and structural realignment cannot occur if it is not supported by the organization’s norms and values. Organization cultures are created by leaders and‚ therefore‚
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1. What were triggers of cultural change in Japan during the 1990s? How is cultural change starting to affect traditional values in Japan? During the 1950s -1980s Matsushita was able to benefit from traditional Japanese culture because the business was able to hold onto personnel through period of extreme growth‚ hence retaining acquired knowledge‚ experience and skills. This meant that Matsushita never needed to relearn tasks only to improve on what they already knew. From the 50s through the
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Case #2; Panasonic and Japan’s Changing Culture 1. Some of the drivers of the cultural changes in the 1990’s with Panasonic were that Japan’s generation of workers‚ starting with the generation born in the 1960’s‚ did not wholly believe in being a “salaryman” and working for a company from when they start until when they retire. After many years‚ in the 1990’s Japan entered an economic slump that lasted the majority of the 1990’s. Only a few companies at first started to lay off employees and
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Colonial Capitalism: Changing Cultures and Lives In the famous novel of Chinua Achebe entitled Things Fall Apart‚ it can be seen how colonialism has affected people and has managed to pull them apart in many directions that it even eventually destroyed relationships of families‚ friends and tribes. Colonialism affected people to the point that the life of the protagonist is destroyed and resulted to his own death. Evelyn Hongs’ Globalization and the Impact on Health a Third World View provides
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In The Newsweek article‚ “The Deadly Noodle‚” Michael Hastings‚ Stefan Thiel and Dana Thomas (2003) illustrate how food habits are turning into more and more Americanized. They point out that the consumption of food with “empty calories” is becoming more and more common around the world‚ for instance‚ in Samoa‚ people are gaining weight resulting in obesity such as canned beef. On the other hand‚ they emphasize that imported food has completely changed the way people produced fruit and vegetables
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Culture Impact of Media There is an old saying”Man is a social animal”‚ which means beyond other requirements such as food and shelter‚ man has another fundamental need and that is‚ need of communication with each other. The urge of communication is a basic one and in our contemporary civilization‚ it has become a necessity for survival. In order to facilitate communication‚ man has established several means which have developed from time to time such as sending messages‚ letters‚ telephone
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