East Asia: the Korean and Japanese Management Styles

This week subject is East Asia is the first region we are going to review in the course, the countries that are I this region are: China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea and Taiwan. As you may be wandering is a vast region with many study possibilities, but this blog section will focus on the Japanese and Korean Management Styles. For this purpose explaining the concepts of divergence, homogenization and convergence are of topmost importance. 

Source: Own creation, based on the class explanations

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Before I recommend any of my class mates' blog I must explain the methodology I used; I based my recommendation on criteria such as proper quotation, order in the presentation, the use of available media and information sources, among others. This allowed me to have the most objective grading process I could come up with: a matrix of the qualities I considered to be important and and its correspondent weight. As a result of all of this I obtained a weighted average grading system, that allowed me to grade my class mates' blogs.

It must also be said that this was an interesting exercise to do because it gave me the chance to study the different class topics from my class mates; and it must be recognized that as I was progressing I got to a final pool of knowledge in the form of blogs which were all really good, but one must choose. So "read more" to find out...

China: why should you produce there?

In this section the topic is China; the fastest growing country in the world, that many consider will be the 21st century new superpower. On this post I will use the last class presentation (done by two students) in order to answer why you should produce in China, by making a comparison with Bangladesh. And after that, the concept of Guanxi will be the topic of this week question, in which we will take into account its importance in the internationalization process of the Chinese companies.

Expatriate Assignments and Overseas Experience: What is the difference?

The expatriate assignments (EA) and the overseas experience (OE) are a topic that has been growing more important in a globalized world. These two experiences are an excellent way of acquiring international expertise and knowledge, but are they the same?

Migrant workers: push and pull factors

This post is going to be dedicated to the migration and the forces driving it. The first thing to do is to define and classify the migrant workers. The second part will try to elaborate on what are the forces diving people to migrate, for this purpose I will resort to the "Migration theory" from Everett Lee.

Managing Diversity - IBM case

Diversity Management has been a central topic that some companies have intensively used to gain competitive advantages. The questions I will answer are how and when diversity is a source of competitive advantage. In order to do so I will explain a little bit of what from where competitive advantage (CA) comes, what sustained competitive advantage is, and the role of human capital.

Managing Diversity in Virtual Teams

¿Do you consider managing diversity a key success factor in the performance of virtual teams? was the question proposed by the teacher to those of us who attended the conference on Virtual Teams. The lecturer is a visiting proffesor from abroad who has experience on this topic.

Exploring Diversity

The diversity is a topic that has become increasingly important since the globalization period of the capitalist economy because the interaction of different cultures has this part of the human interaction implied. But there is much more to diversity than the mere intercultural interaction. So this section is going to be titled diversity without foreigners.