Organised by CIBUL (Centre for International Business University of Leeds)
Tuesday 22 April 2008
Speaker:
One can argue that the continued success of Toyota and other dedicated technology companies shows that Japanese managerial strengths are as good as they ever were. Some traditional practices have had to be modified in the light of Anglo-American competition, and it is being argued that new "hybrid" management forms are emerging which meld the best of Japanese strengths with best "western" managerial practices. However, to critical outsiders, these changes still leave far too many overly fragmented industries, involving relatively unfocussed companies, with weak international strategies and with a poor record of integrating non-Japanese executives and work forces. This talk will look critically at current Japanese managerial practices as measured against standard western business school orthodoxies. It will end by asking whether we still need to look up to a distinctive Japanese business model ... or whether there is a divide between Japanese and Anglo-American thinking on management models, with the Japanese model being more a recipe for global weakness, rather than for global strength.
Location: Fairbairn House, University of Leeds
Timing: 14.00 - 16.00
Nearest Train Station: Leeds
Pricing: Free
To Register: please send your details (name, institutional affiliation, email address, phone number) to biz@aptn.org
Contact: Louis Turner, 0790 5204 677