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Business in Japan
Reasoning vs Decision
According to my Understanding Deep Culture: Understanding Japan Through Cross-cultural Comparisons teacher, if you give your decision/point first in a Japanese business meeting and then give your reasoning then people will stop listening but he said he noticed that Japanese people will listen to you if you give your reasoning first and then your decision/point.
Japanese Business Structure
Another thing that I learned from my Japanese Business & Society class was that the businesses here use a vertical hierarchy. Some what like a pyramid but you can’t directly contact people that are in the same level as you so say you want to work for someone on the far right bottom end of the pyramid and you are on the far bottom left of the pyramid, you would have to then talk to your boss to ask if it is okay to work with that person. Then he would have to convey it to his boss and then his boss and so on because people of the same level can’t command each other. Until you talk to the boss at the top of the pyramid, then he can start commanding the bosses below him and finally tell the person on the far bottom left of the pyramid to work with you. It is in deed a very slow process.
Hiring New Workers
Japanese business in general are very slow but once you are hired, you are almost set for life. They…
