Japanese-style management is conceptual management, which emphasizes harmonious interpersonal relationship, top-down consultation decision-making system, employees' loyalty to the organization and the responsibility of the organization to society. Japanese-style management is a high-quality labor force with a cooperative system between the government and the people, stable labor relations, professionalism and loyalty to enterprises.
The three cores of Japanese-style management: lifelong employment system, seniority system and enterprise trade union system, are only Japanese characteristics, not Japanese paradigms. On the premise of its own characteristics, Japan's management paradigm is no different from that of the United States or the West, especially with the process of globalization, Japanese enterprises are constantly giving up some of their original characteristics and becoming more and more similar to American management.
Core features:
1, collective decision-making
In Japan, most decisions made within enterprises are made through meetings or deliberations. The decision made at the meeting, because it is observed and judged by many people, avoids the danger brought by individual decision-making, and can make the value benchmark and information as the premise of decision-making pass among members.
2. Guarantee employment
In the past, Japanese companies mostly cut staff costs during the economic downturn, but instead of firing employees, they took the form of first deploying within the enterprise group or sending them to affiliated enterprises. In fact, the difficulties are solved by adjusting bonuses, subsidies, welfare and medical care expenses, which is also the reason why the unemployment rate in Japan has been low.
3. Adhere to the sustainability of business operations.
There are many long-lived enterprises in Japan, among which Jingang Group, the oldest enterprise in the world, was founded in 578 AD, and has gone through 1400 years. Matsui Construction, founded in 1586, is the oldest listed company.