Culture and Management HCA/250
09/02/2012

Culture and Management
In a culture where people are at the center of the management style, not money, and the emphasis is on the employer employee relationship (Ohsawa, n.d.) the ‘in your face’ confrontational management style Ayame Nakamura is faced with in her new Western culture pharmaceutical job is at odds with her raising, as well as her work ethic (University of Phoenix, 2012). Japanese culture dictates that an employee is a life mate and a member of the family for the corporation and the corporation is vital to the development of the individual, and his or her future (Ohsawa, n.d.). When an individual is molded using this type of management styles the use of, ‘quickly get to the point’ confrontational managing may not find a receptive employee.
The use of confrontational management is a style many successful company’s employ. It is a way to get right to the heart of the matter without beating around the bush. Informing an individual or a department what needs to be done to complete the objective in a direct manner, and what skills or functions may need to be improved upon to do it better are a scope of this management style. The name implies rude behavior, but quite the opposite in fact this style is used to simply give direct information, and ways to improve the current work ethic or situation without sugar coating. There is no true offence meant it is simply a way of informing and giving feedback.
As a Japanese immigrant Ayame is use to the polite molding of the business world in Japan. In Japan, an individual is hired from the university not based on their specific knowledge but on the eagerness they show for the company. It is a partnership meant to last a lifetime, and the company treats all the employees like natural born children; the employees look to the company as their father figure until