“台松”如何貫徹東西方管理策略

Abstract

Being the next successor in line for Panasonic Energy Company Taiwan, (PECTW), I will be carrying a tough responsibility. I have Western education although I was raised on the beautiful island of Taiwan. Through the study and analysis of The Mind of Management and Peter Drucker’s Industrial Strategy, one should be able to absorb a decent portion among the Western and Eastern management strategy. East and West management strategy usually conflict with one and another due to their cultural beliefs and working habits. For example, simply the overtime issue is seen upon differently in the eyes of the beholder for Eastern and Western culture. For the Western culture, a good amount of the employees believes that personal time is extremely important and they would choose not to over-time because it eats into their treasured quality time with their family. Employees would felt that their “human rights” are being offended if they are being kept to perform OT by upper management. However, on the other hand, for Japanese culture, most employees tend to feel “awkward” if they did not perform OT for the day. Moreover, there’s a traditional that employees should not even consider leaving their duties if their managers haven’t leave for the day yet. Hence, an unhealthy cycle of the entire company performing overtime would exist and be passed on among different generations. Some employees in a Japanese company may be afraid to leave their duty because of the presence of their supervisors at work. At the meantime, though there are come company events that could be consider time consuming and inefficient; however, there are value adding event such as group gathering events after work and the morning exercise which could successfully gather the team spirit and get employees all fired up prepared for their workday. Although both East and West business management style are aggressive; however, they have their own uniqueness which was carried the company culture for centuries. Thus, keeping in mind that The World is Flat, we should not barricade ourselves in traditional Eastern strategy but we should have breakthrough and innovative Western ideas while working hard with a dedicated loyal mind in a Japanese theory treating our company as our home.