Reaction on Gung Ho movie When a Japanese automaker takes over a failed American auto plant‚ differences between American and Japanese work ethics threaten to close the plant. The local auto plant in Hadleyville‚ Pennsylvania‚ which supplied most of the town’s jobs‚ has been closed for nine months. Former foreman Hunt Stevenson (Michael Keaton) goes to Tokyo to try to convince the Assan Motors Corporation to reopen the plant. The Japanese company agrees‚ and upon their arrival in the U.S.‚
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Kelvin Rudy Organizations in the New Economy Section: 7 Mary E. Boone Analysis 1: Gung Ho February 21‚ 2010 INTRODUCTION "Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster." - Dr. Geert Hofstede The movie Gung Ho (a Chinese expression for "work together"1)‚ demonstrates a cross-cultural relationship between the Americans and the Japanese working together towards achieving the goal of reviving an American car manufacturing
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Gung Ho! Increase Productivity‚ Profits‚ and Your Own Prosperity The Big Idea From a classic story about a plant called Walton Works #2‚ here are invaluable management lessons on increasing productivity by fostering high morale. It will work for any type of organization! Based on three core ideas: work must be seen as important‚ workers must be in control of their own production‚ and managers must cheer workers on. This is a tried and tested Native American recipe for surefire success. Follow
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Gung Ho" and the Integrated Cultural Framework The purpose of this exercise is to apply the dimensions of the Integrated Cultural Framework to the movie "Gung Ho". Each company is discussed separately using examples from the movie and then summary values provided. United States ICF Dimension Low Moderate High Ability to Influence High Comfort with Ambiguity High Assertiveness Doing/Masculine Individual/Collectivism Individual Time Orientation Present Space Orientation Public
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Gung Ho‚ by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles was a wonderful book that discussed many important factors involved in making a company truly successful. It had a good storyline to help to tell the story of Gung Ho. When I first picked up the book to read it I really had no idea what to expect to learn from the book. The points that were made in this book were very simple and common sense principles. I say that these principles are simple‚ but many companies do not think of these little things when
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Analysis of the Movie Gung Ho Stephen Draughon MKTG 3852 July 22‚ 2012 Table of Contents Executive Summary ........................................................................................................................ 3 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 5 I. American and Japanese cultural values compared and contrasted. .......................................
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context cultures are found throughout the movie especially in the front end before the two cultures start to begin to understand each other. The low context culture can be taken from the scene I described in the meeting room. Stevenson used language and terms that no one else in the board room was familiar with. An example of high culture context would be how the Japanese communicate mostly through body language such as bowing when greeting. iv. Role of women: In the movie Japanese women are expected to
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Executive Summary Gung-Ho was a comedy movie released by Parliament Pictures in 1986. The title of the movie is actually a Chinese expression for "work together". The main story portrayed the takeover of an American automobile plant by a Japanese automobile manufacture- Assan Motors Company. As the Japanese executives began to work with their American colleagues‚ its successful experience and advanced business concepts and ethics are brought to the United States. In the meanwhile‚ the cross-cultural
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Creating Synergy in my life Gung Ho was a wonderful book of approach for developing and improving organizational culture and performance. Author uses three reassessment guideposts to explain the way to create an organization that contains productive and committed and employees. Three reassessment guideposts are spirit of the squirrel‚ way of the beaver‚ and gift of the goose. As I read the book‚ I evaluated myself‚ whether the 3 principles are applicable to my life or my church is applying the
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The Gung Ho Movie‚ starring Michael Keaton‚ is a great representation of the cultural differences that may arise between businesses when working together internationally. This movie‚ more specifically‚ expresses differences between the business approaches of America companies compared to Japanese companies. The plot is based on an American car factory that was shutdown and purchased by a Japanese company‚ Assan Motors. The factory is a lead source for the economy in the Midwestern town it is based
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