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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Gung Ho! By Ken Blanchard Gung Ho was a story about a small town factory that was underperforming‚ and a new manager and seasoned employee who used the below principals to turn the plant into a world-class process. The Spirit of the Squirrel Ï Worthwhile work X Important X Leading to shared goals X Value-driven Ï I try to ensure the work I do is driving value for the firm‚ and find ways to reduce unnecessary tasks that create additional administrative burden on others. For example
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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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experienced an intercultural encounter in the movie of “Gung Ho”. Gung Ho is a movie that tells about the clash of cultures after a certain group of Japanese work together with American in order to reopen a car factory in a small town of Pennsylvania‚ America. The movie basically tells about the negative stereotypes and rivalry that are existed between those two groups while they are working together. In this paper‚ I want to address the issues on Gung Ho’s movie about the stereotypes and power distance
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Gung Ho‚ Movie Analysis – Group 6 LLSMS2065B Cross-Cultural Competences and Management Group project – Film analysis Gung Ho (1986) Professors Marie-Thérèse Claes Ina Ehnert Louvain School of Management ‐ Academic year 2012‐2013 1 Gung Ho‚ Movie Analysis – Group 6 Table of Content Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 3 1. Presentation of the movie‚ “Gung Ho” ....
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Gung Ho The movie Gung Ho portrayed the takeover of an American car factory by a Japanese corporation. It shows a clash of cultures between the Americans and the Japanese after Hunt Stevenson successfully convinced the Japanese to reopen the automobile factory in a small town. When the Japanese employers show up‚ they expect that the Americans share the same type of work ethics that they have practiced. On the first day of the joint venture‚ Kazihiro addresses the American workers: "We must build
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GUNG-HO Gung-Ho is a movie about the takeover of an American automobile factory in Hadleyville‚ Pennsylvania by a Japanese company. The term Gung Ho is a Chinese expression for “work together” which is what the movie is about. As the Americans and Japanese attempt to work together the viewers are able to see the cross-cultural conflicts and huge misunderstandings that happen throughout the movie because of the differences in culture‚ work attitude‚ management styles‚ and values between the two
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Question 1: Identify and discuss the basic Japanese values. What impact do these values have on Japanese business dealings? To what extent is it important for non-Japanese to be aware of Japanese values? As far as my understanding of the movie Gung Ho‚ there are some basic Japanese values worth being analyzed for example‚ Japanese shows high level of politeness. During the early scene of the Japanese making their way out of the airplane‚ the Americans spreads out red carpet and the Japanese naturally
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Group Behavior in GUNG HO OUTLINE OF REPORT I. Introduction II. Research Question III. Discussion of the Main Framework: Group Behavior Model IV. Analysis and Interpretation V. Conclusion I. INTRODUCTION In the movie Gung Ho‚ Hunt Stevenson is sent to Tokyo to convince the Assan Motors Corporation to take over the recently closed Hadleyville auto plant. The Japanese company agrees‚ and upon the arrival of their management team in the US many changes are introduced‚ among them lower
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1.Identify three scenes where you came across information on cultural differences between Japan and American workplaces. Please restrict each scene within 3-4 lines. ANS: From the Gung Ho Movie‚ it is not hard to recognize that there are lots of differences in culture‚ value‚ and work attitude between Japanese and American. Three scenes from the movie where the cultural differences are shown distinctly‚ are given below- 1. At work‚ Japanese production supervisors make the point that individual
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