The Importance Of Decision Making In Management

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The most important concerns with management are similar in all parts of the world, they include making effective decisions, harmonizing employment security with other needs such as productivity, flexibility, acceptance of change in the company, and developing young professional managers. The Japanese apply different principles and have developed different approaches to handle these issues, especially in business behavior. Decision by consensus is the point in which all Japanese authorities must come to an agreement, whether businesses or government agencies. Japanese will debate a proposed decision throughout the organization until there is a consensus agreement made. It is only at this time can a decision be made. Following the consensus…show more content…
This stage allows management to pass the decision to the appropriate people. The appropriate people are determined by a decision processed by top management. That decision is based off the question that is being defined and/or solved. At this point in the process it has become very clear what approaches people or groups will take in the course of this problem, because of the Japanese management system there is no wondering who is doing what when. What can this process teach other cultures in the process of decision-making in management? For one, it makes for very efficient decisions. This process takes longer compared to decision making in the United States, because they spend more time on finding an agreement rather than selling and getting people to act on the idea once the decision has been made. The Japanese have already presold everyone every one, therefore it is clear where the process will be welcomes and where it will be resisted. Allowing plenty of time to work on encouraging the dissenters without destroying the integrity of the…show more content…
Meeting workers needs means one simple thing, securing confidence in both the younger and older workers of the company. This allows the younger men to feel secure about their job and have a steadily rising income while their family grows. On the other hand the older men feel wanted and useful in the organization rather than a burden. More meaningful benefits lessons that the Japanese take is to shape benefits to the wants and needs of specific employee groups. This helps the organization lower the costs of the benefits, instead of piling benefits on employees if they are needed or not. As result, there is a large amount of money spent on benefits which has little to no meaning for certain groups of employees and leaves unsatisfied needs of other substantial groups. This has been shown to be a major reason why some benefit plans have produced little employee satisfaction and psychological
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