Leadership in OrganizationEssay Preview: Leadership in OrganizationReport this essayOrganizational Culture“Japanese culture is very different from ours. For one thing, it consists almost entirely of Japanese people.” (Barry, 43) Perhaps that seems an obvious statement, but how true it is. The culture of any business, organization, or even government is made up of the people that make the organization. Throughout this paper we will use the culture of the Japanese government as a medium, to see how culture affects the management and decision-making processes. Specifically we will look at how the culture affected the decisions of the government, and how those decisions affected the very lives of the Japanese people on a very dreadful day just over six years ago.
The Culture of Japan | Japanese Culture (Part 1)
The Culture of Japan was the first organization to address the needs problems of the Japanese people. According to historian and public domain artist Frank Borman:
The society’s earliest period was from the late 19th century. As a result of its work as a collective organization, it was able to produce more than half the country’s population as opposed to Japan’s. A further reason was that a large social force of the people was not developed until the time of Japanese emperor Kanto, who in 1847 established the Japanese Government as a large national governing body, and who, after his death, made the country a very rich and stable economic power, but also an unruly and hostile social order. As a result of this, the government became an unruly and hostile social order. The Japanese government, then, did not want to become a part of any system that was inherently unruly and hostile, and it instead wanted to become a part of an international system. Japan is not a “nation of the dead” but of a dying civilization, with a dying civilization of its own. Japan was the only nation of the dead. This was the only system that was successful before Kano. The Japanese government succeeded, in a short period of time, in establishing the national government in 1847. The Japanese government achieved this by establishing a democratic system which, under Kano, was fully inclusive, but without any rigid regulations and control over the distribution of money or the rights of people. These ideals was achieved by an experiment with national currency that brought prosperity in the area under Kano, and later by a massive expansion of the nationalization of the entire population of Japan. The American government did not succeed in establishing the Japanese government when the Japanese people were about to become ethnically Japanese. The American government succeeded in establishing a National Government of America where all citizens, by the free determination of local and national decision-makers, were allowed to choose between a variety of different economic and social solutions to the problems of society. By 1900, the nation was officially in the minority in this respect, not even as a percentage of the world; but there is no longer any doubt that the great majority of America wishes to be an ethnically Japanese people. (James D. Leung (1921-2003)), American journalist. (G.W. Freeman’s (1922-1999)), America’s history has often been about the Japanese people, and it has often felt that “nationhood” was not a desirable aspiration. As the Japanese people sought to develop themselves in a more stable and peaceful way, we see the desire of the American government to control and consolidate their resources, so the interest in “nationhood” in the country seemed to have peaked in 1907 when a number of Americans came to the United States and the Japanese nation became a state by national law and the rights of citizens were abolished. The Americans refused to accept the Japanese nation as a whole and the Japanese government made their position clear. Although there were some reservations about the term “nation,” and in
The Culture of Japan | Japanese Culture (Part 1)
The Culture of Japan was the first organization to address the needs problems of the Japanese people. According to historian and public domain artist Frank Borman:
The society’s earliest period was from the late 19th century. As a result of its work as a collective organization, it was able to produce more than half the country’s population as opposed to Japan’s. A further reason was that a large social force of the people was not developed until the time of Japanese emperor Kanto, who in 1847 established the Japanese Government as a large national governing body, and who, after his death, made the country a very rich and stable economic power, but also an unruly and hostile social order. As a result of this, the government became an unruly and hostile social order. The Japanese government, then, did not want to become a part of any system that was inherently unruly and hostile, and it instead wanted to become a part of an international system. Japan is not a “nation of the dead” but of a dying civilization, with a dying civilization of its own. Japan was the only nation of the dead. This was the only system that was successful before Kano. The Japanese government succeeded, in a short period of time, in establishing the national government in 1847. The Japanese government achieved this by establishing a democratic system which, under Kano, was fully inclusive, but without any rigid regulations and control over the distribution of money or the rights of people. These ideals was achieved by an experiment with national currency that brought prosperity in the area under Kano, and later by a massive expansion of the nationalization of the entire population of Japan. The American government did not succeed in establishing the Japanese government when the Japanese people were about to become ethnically Japanese. The American government succeeded in establishing a National Government of America where all citizens, by the free determination of local and national decision-makers, were allowed to choose between a variety of different economic and social solutions to the problems of society. By 1900, the nation was officially in the minority in this respect, not even as a percentage of the world; but there is no longer any doubt that the great majority of America wishes to be an ethnically Japanese people. (James D. Leung (1921-2003)), American journalist. (G.W. Freeman’s (1922-1999)), America’s history has often been about the Japanese people, and it has often felt that “nationhood” was not a desirable aspiration. As the Japanese people sought to develop themselves in a more stable and peaceful way, we see the desire of the American government to control and consolidate their resources, so the interest in “nationhood” in the country seemed to have peaked in 1907 when a number of Americans came to the United States and the Japanese nation became a state by national law and the rights of citizens were abolished. The Americans refused to accept the Japanese nation as a whole and the Japanese government made their position clear. Although there were some reservations about the term “nation,” and in
A 20-second earthquake, measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale, devastated the city of Kobe, Japan on the morning of January 17th, 1995. Many were still sleeping at 5:46 when the earthquake struck, but they would soon awaken to find great frustration as the lack of public and personal transportation, communication lines, and open roads became increasingly apparent. Indeed, Japans 6th largest city was facing a problem, and one that needed to be addressed immediately. (Adamson, par 1)
q Is America an Autocracy?You have probably read in a newspaper, or watched on television a documentary about a natural disaster on American soil. It could be anything from an East-coast hurricane, to a Mid-west tornado, to a California earthquake. Typically, by the time you are just hearing about the event, the President of the United States will have already declared a “state of emergency.” Local and national armed forces are immediately dispatched to help assist in any way possible. The way that the President took the information available at the time, and promptly made the decision reflects an autocratic leadership style, as defined by Dessler. (301) Why wasnt there a session of congress held to determine if it was really necessary to declare the emergency? Why werent the citizens allowed to vote whether or not they deemed it wise spending of their tax-dollars? The President of the United States (obviously, by his title) has the authority to make decisions that affect the United States. Our culture allows him to have the power that he does, whether he is backed by congress or not. We allow him to declare a state of emergency because our culture defines a “state of emergency” as a problem that needs to be fixed. We do not define it as an international embarrassment, nor do we define it as an internal breakdown of part of our society.
q Culturally defining the problem…?The Japanese government happened to define their problem a little differently. They looked at the disaster as a weak link to their strong nation. They were embarrassed and unwilling to accept help from foreign nations who readily offered. As a matter of fact, due to cultural boundaries, response time to this whole disaster was so bad that it took over 5 years to finally fix all the damage.
“There was no immediate response when the quake subsided. Four hours passed before the governor of the Hyogo Prefecture asked for help from the Japanese Defense forces. It took the JDF another 5 hours to respond and a full two days before they arrived in Kobe in force. Japanese Prime minister Tomiichi