Subject category:
Strategy and General Management
Published by:
Ivey Publishing
Version: 2017-09-19
Revision date: 6-Oct-2017
Length: 14 pages
Data source: Field research
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Abstract
A year had elapsed since Mabuchi Motor Co, Ltd of Japan, the world''s most successful producer of small electric motors, had implemented a new management training program at one of its foreign operations in China. The program had two objectives. First, it was intended to enable the corporation to maintain its strategy of cost minimization by making it possible to reduce Japanese expatriate levels by improving the management skills of local managers in foreign subsidiaries. Second, by overcoming the shortage of qualified Japanese managers, the program would also allow the continued aggressive expansion of production that had become a cornerstone of corporate strategy. The teaching purpose is to illustrate the difficulties associated with transferring a management style and corporate culture into a different national culture. There is a simplified Chinese version available ''9A98MC34''. There is a Japanese version available ''9A98MJ34''.
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Abstract
A year had elapsed since Mabuchi Motor Co, Ltd of Japan, the world''s most successful producer of small electric motors, had implemented a new management training program at one of its foreign operations in China. The program had two objectives. First, it was intended to enable the corporation to maintain its strategy of cost minimization by making it possible to reduce Japanese expatriate levels by improving the management skills of local managers in foreign subsidiaries. Second, by overcoming the shortage of qualified Japanese managers, the program would also allow the continued aggressive expansion of production that had become a cornerstone of corporate strategy. The teaching purpose is to illustrate the difficulties associated with transferring a management style and corporate culture into a different national culture. There is a simplified Chinese version available ''9A98MC34''. There is a Japanese version available ''9A98MJ34''.