East Asia

If we analyze the Korean and Japanese culture we can see that this culture converge and diverge in many case Appling the theory, in the Japanese culture there are what they call “the zabatsu” this are groups of companies that are own by some families that have the power of manage them since their pasts from years before, this group have the government backup and have especial preferences about taxes and regulations.

Japan have specially care for business relations and they extremely protect the organization values, for example relations between suppliers and clients are treated with especially care because they think that the whole chain in the production is the one that manage the information, and the information is very important for a long life relation.

Korea have similar management styles like Japan, they have a similar conglomerate of companies with family origins called “Chaebol” This families also have a lot of power in their media but not the governments complete support like in Japanese culture, for example they are not allow to have or manage banks corporations.

This two cultures converge a diverge with the other countries cultures around the world and in some specific spects they change and adapt to need way in favor of entering to the global market, but they also have traditions that make them like they are and characterize them so diverging is also apply when globalization hits.

References:

http://www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/english/html/index.html
http://www.koreaembassyusa.org/
http://www.analytictech.com/mb021/cultural.htm


Questions

5.What is isomorphism? Do you think organizations change management styles to adapt to the environment? Which environment is stronger: national environment or international environment?

Answer:

Isomorphism is the ability of a organization to change and adapt to a different environment in were it is situated different than the original one.

When a organization open a new division in a different region it has to be aware of how different is the new location in terms of traditions, culture, people, laws, rules, protocol, etc, and it must change the critical managerial styles that can crash with the local traditions, so yes an organization must change its managerial style if the managerial style isn’t compatible with the external environment in which the organization is located.

Local and international environments represent taking good decisions for a organization, I think that if the company grew up in a local environment this environment will be known by the organization and it will be easier to handle an to take decisions, instead of the international environment that for a local organization if is trying to open new divisions or is opening market, the international environments will be more difficult and it will take to make investigations and analysis in order to take less risk and good decisions.

1. List the main similarities and differences of Japanese and Korean management styles.

Answer:

Firstly we have a lot of similarities just to mention some of the most important are: this two countries have a close culture between theme and have similar managerial styles, they are both in the same continent so they sale their products to a common market. This two countries by culture both are very committed to their job a and always look for a long term relation between clients a suppliers, both countries are always thinking in globalization and in international business.

The differences between them is their principal motivations for production an the different sectors, for example Korea is more emphasized in technological sector and the government protect with especial care this industries. In Japan the government protect the agricultural and manufacturing sectors.

This two economies are growing economies that are nowadays improving their market share and acquiring global participation and power.

References:

http://www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/english/html/index.html
http://www.koreaembassyusa.org/
http://www.analytictech.com/mb021/cultural.htm