...Gung Ho Gung Ho, a movie by Ron Howard, depicts the differences in culture and work ethic between Americans and Japanese. It shows how each group handles conflict in the work place, as well as at home. The main characters and leaders are faced with dilemmas and have to figure out how to work as a team to keep the automobile manufacturing plant up and running smoothly. According to Western Washington University (2011), there are many different sociological differences between the Japanese and Americans. Most importantly, the views of conflict and conflict resolution differ greatly. In the United States, conflict is seen as something that is inevitable, or bound to happen, whereas in Japan, conflict is considered dangerous to all relationships and should be diffused before it begins or avoided at all costs (Western Washington University, 2011). This fact along plays a major roll in the struggles between the Americans and the Japanese at the automobile manufacturing plant in Gung Ho. The American workers almost seemed as though they were looking for conflict to solve, but the Japanese executives were quick to avoid it at any cost possible. Culture also plays a major roll in determining how the characters approached and completed tasks presented to them. In the movie, a few of the American and Japanese main characters argue about their differences in spending time with family. The Japanese say that their job is their life; it is most important so they can provide for their families...
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...Gung Ho Training in Organization Need Assessment, Development, and Evaluation Peer Shmelzer-Moratin MGMT 3441 HPU Term 2 2012 Gung Ho is a 1986 Ron Howard comedy film, released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Michael Keaton and Gedde Watanabe. The film's story portrayed the takeover of an American car plant by a Japanese corporation. While it might seem like just another fun movie to watch on a Friday night, it is actually a great movie with great lesson to teach to those who underestimate the power of training. Training is defined as the systematic acquisition of skills, rules, concepts, or attitudes that result in improved performance in another environment (Goldstein 1). The above movie is great example of how training can lead to much better results and performance. Irwin Goldstein, a leader in the training field, teams up with Kevin Ford and wrote "Training in Organization” to provide readers with a framework for examining and establishing viable training programs in education, business, and government. Capturing the excitement of training research and systems issues, the author discusses training as it occurs in real organizations. In their book they present different types of training programs and their effectiveness, ways in which training needs to be assessed and evaluated. With today’s technology the concern for utilizing training systems and developing new ones increase. Trainers are struggling with how to work with teams. The movie Gung Ho presents...
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...GUNG HO! CULTURAL ANALYSIS Michael Hamilton MKTG 3852 – Second Summer 2012 7/22/12 GUNG HO- CULTURAL ANALYSIS Cultural differences influence how business is conducted in today’s rapidly expanding global market. These cultural barriers affect human interactions through our perspective of one another, credibility, time frames, as well as through communication. The success of international business depends upon the ability to set aside our differences, unite and strengthen one another. Many of these challenges can be seen throughout the movie Gung Ho. The movie portrays the relationship between the Japanese and Americans in a lightly comically point of view through an auto factory. However, when comparing and contrasting the interactions of these two cultures, both in and out of the film, they’re dynamics of become more apparent. The connections and exchanges between the Japanese management team and the American workers throughout the film present examples for each of the five dimensions in Geert Hofstede’s cultural dynamics analysis: Individualism/Collectivism, Uncertainty Avoidance, Power Distance, Masculinity/Femininity, and the later added Long-term Orientation. I. Hofstede’s Cultural Dynamics The results from Hofstede’s analysis for the United States and Japan are in the following table. When comparing the two we see that the Americans have a highly individualistic, male reinforced, ambiguous, society with a slight hierarchy with a weak connection to tradition...
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...Gung Ho (1986) stars Michael Keaton in the role of an American wheeler-dealer who hopes to save his small Pennsylvania town by getting a Japanese automobile manufacturer to buy the town’s biggest employer-a failing automobile assembly factory. He is sent to Japan to convince the Japanese that buying this factory is in mutual interest. The movie is about how the Japanese and American cultures try to work together to successfully run the factory. For the most part, the Japanese management and the American workers cannot manage to get along because of cultural differences. The Japanese insisted on discipline, company fitness routines, and putting work before family. Keaton gets into a dispute with one Japanese middle manager over the man's unwillingness to stand up to his own uncle to ask for some time off to be with his newly born child. In the United States, people value individual rights whereas Japanese people have priority over the overall good of the group so that their individual. It is believed that Americans show more concern for interests of themselves and their families, rather than others. Therefore the early leave is acceptable within the American companies. However, being part of the group is essential in Japan; therefore, that request for early leave is against the overall good of the team, and slowing down the production. There were examples of differences as obvious as the eating in two separate break rooms. This was a very funny movie. I really enjoyed it, but...
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...GUNG HO (the movie!) 1. What is going on in the opening scene? What does the screaming indicate about the “Japanese work culture”? 2. Describe three cultural differences Micheal Keaton encounters when he meets the Japanese Board of Directors. 3. Why did Micheal Keaton go to Japan? What were the problems with his home town of Hadleyville? How is this like a real problem with manufacturing in North America? 4. How does the car factory closing affect the town of Hadleyville? What is the evidence is shown in the grocery store scene to illustrate the problems? 5. List three cultural differences in the meeting. 6. Why was Micheal Keaton promoted? 7. Describe what is occurring at the workers’ meeting. 8. Describe four cultural differences that occur on the first day of work. Why are the American workers laughing? 9. Why do the Japanese install close circuit cameras in the factory? What does this indicate about trust? 10. How does the music in the factory, the newspaper in the bathroom and smoking by the American workers contrast with the Japanese factory culture? 11. Why do the Japanese initiate a job rotation among the factory workers? 12. How important is quality to the Japanese? What evidence is there to support the importance of quality? How does the focus on quality contrast with the workers old-style culture? 13. State the differences between the factory workers and the management teams at the baseball...
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...turned into different things such as seas, lakes, skies, trees, and mountains. T he belief of these stories actually teach that in order to have life there must be death. Other types of stories are the stories that consist of secretion of body fluids that create birth as in the accretion myths (Leonard & McClure, 2004, p. 34). Reminds us of the movie Gremlins and how they keep making new evil little monsters when they come in contact with water or eat after midnight. As long as these two things do not happen the gremlin stays sweet almost sacred furry animal. A concept is the emergence myths. These myths have people that travel through worlds until they emerge into one. A person could keep traveling until they become perfect and can continue the work of other Gods (Enotes, 2013). A person in this particular time could be a man that is successful in our world today, such as Bill Gates. A person as successful as Bill Gates is an icon and to some Godly for representing such things that are in the future. A modern day creator, Bill Gates was a technological innovation keen business strategy with aggressive gung ho tactics. He and his partner Paul Allen built the world's largest software business, Microsoft. Bill Gates, born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington, he began to show an interest in computer programming at the age of 13 in the process he became one of the richest men in the world. Bill Gates was well-known for his charitable donations and...
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...Gung Ho is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Ron Howard and starring Michael Keaton and Gedde Watanabe.[1] The story portrayed the takeover of an American car plant by a Japanese corporation (although the title is an Americanized Chinese expression, for "work" and "together"). The film was rated PG-13 in the US[1] and certified 15 in the UK. Most of the movie was filmed on location in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area with additional scenes shot in Tokyo and Argentina. Contents [hide] * 1Plot * 2Main cast * 3Reception * 4Influence * 4.1Other media * 5Vehicles used * 6References * 7External links ------------------------------------------------- Plot[edit] The local auto plant in fictional Hadleyville, Pennsylvania, which supplied most of the town's jobs, has been closed for nine months. The former foreman Hunt Stevenson (Michael Keaton) goes to Tokyo to try to convince the Assan Motors Corporation to reopen the plant. The Japanese company agrees and, upon their arrival in the U.S., they take advantage of the desperate work force to institute many changes. The workers are not permitted a union, are paid lower wages, are moved around within the factory so that each worker learns every job, and are held to seemingly impossible standards of efficiency and quality. Adding to the strain in the relationship, the Americans find humor in the demand that they do calisthenics as a group each morning and that the Japanese executives eat their...
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...country in any way possible. This sometimes led to the development of experimental programs and projects. Some of the programs involved morale boosting murals that depicted an idealistic agricultural American society. The government was not the only producer of confidence boosting propaganda during the Depression, Hollywood also capitalized on the need for empowerment. Hollywood lost money and felt the same loss as people all over the United States. But Hollywood used this Depression for their gain. They altered their course of action to please the American people during this time. Hollywood then produced the Golden Age of Hollywood to boost American morale. Directors such William Wellman and King Vidor were at the forefront of Golden Age movie production. These directors aimed to capture the roles of womanhood and manhood in efforts to fortify American’s thoughts of the ideal American society. The New deal also created the implementation of the Works Project Administration (WPA), more specifically the Federal Project Number One, which aimed to assist people of the arts out of Depression and simultaneously using their works to get into the minds of Americans and regain their confidence. The Great Depression came at a time when America was at the forefront against the push of communism and even fascism. Americans were losing confidence in the government as well as having feelings of anger towards the seemingly over-abuse of power. Americans were feeling like their government was...
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...Morris was then placed into a committee with General George Washington to supply colonies with ammunition and military stores. He was also given the job of convincing the western Indians to break their alliance with Britain and to re-align themselves with the American colonies. After he had accomplished his tasks with the military and preparations for war, Lewis took his seat in Congress as the head delegate of New York. When the Declaration of Independence was brought to the fore-front of peoples’ minds, the country was split. There were many patriots who were very gung-ho with the idea of separating from Britain, then there were others who were scared of what could happen should their efforts lead to failure. New York seemed to be the most unwilling of the colonies to agree to this...
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...business school, or currently enrolled in one, these picks serve as a kind of silver-screen curriculum on leadership, ethics, and the exercise of power. By Kiah Haslett Inside Job | 2010 Starring: Matt Damon, William Ackman, Daniel Alpert Recommended by: Judy Olian, dean of the UCLA Anderson School of Management This movie was made when Japan was showing the world how to make better products. The movie is about the clash and eventual reconciliation of cultures. Both cultures are overdrawn a bit, but the movie is thoughtful Joseph Thomas Norma Rae | 1979 Starring: Sally Field, Beau Bridges Recommended by: James W. Dean Jr., dean of the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flager Business School. Leadership doesn't just come from the top. Norman Rae is a single mother who—despite great personal risk—fights to unionize her textile mill to improve terrible working conditions. —James W. Dean Jr. Patton | 1970 Starring: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young. Recommended by: Robert F. Bruner, dean of the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business A profile of the most aggressive American general in World War II. This movie prompts deep reflections on the emotional intelligence that must underpin true leaders —Robert F. Bruner Moonstruck | 1987 Starring: Cher, Nicolas Cage Recommended by: Paul Danos, dean of Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business The...
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...----------WAKAOUJI TAKAFUMI 若王åè²´æ–‡---------- [wakt] Birthday: 4th September Horoscope: Virgo Blood type: A Height: 180cm Weight: 65kg Club: Track and Field Job: Teaching at Hanegasaki High Rival: None Hobby: Teaching Course: Teach the next batch of first-years Favourite: Cats, fashion Colour: Pink Seiyuu: Morikawa Toshiyuki æ£®å· æ™ºä¹‹ (Katsuya Jounouichi in YuGiOh!, Youhei Mito in Slam Dunk, Takumi Ichinose in NANA, Conrad in Kyou Kara Maoh!, Naraku in Inuyasha, Sephiroth in FF7, Kurosaki Isshin in Bleach, Ernst in Angelique) +++NAME-CALLING+++ Neutral and above: Wakaouji-sensei 若王å先生 , Waka-sama 若サマ, Sensei ã›ã‚“ã›ã‡ , Waka-chan è‹¥ã¡ã‚ƒã‚“ :) and above: None :D and above: Takafumi-kun è²´æ–‡ãã‚“ , Takafumi-san è²´æ–‡ã•ã‚“ **Never call him Dr. Wakaouji Dr.若王å (LOL), Takafumi è²´æ–‡ , Waka-PURI 若プリ What he calls you: Neutral: Last name-san :) and above: Last name-san +++OBTAIN...
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...effectiveness of Japanese styles of management. Through case studies, three main research questions emerged: 1. What are the distinctive qualities of Japanese work organizations? 2. What happens to these qualities when Japanese organizations are established in western countries? 3. Are there ‘universal’ effects of particular forms of organization, or is it more the case that what is required at one place or time would not have the same effect at another place or time? Points of Agreement • The difference between the western viewpoint of Japanese society and the Japanese management style. (Smith, 1984, p. 123, col 1, par 1). Western society, mainly writers and movies, have presented Japan as a conformist society. The movie, Gung Ho (1986, Paramount Pictures) is about a Japanese auto company taking over an American auto company. The Japanese management is shown as working as a unit and not trying to rock the boat. They also lower salaries and try to get everyone trained on every job as to conform. A study by Klauss & Bass (1974) studied group decision making by managers in 13 countries (Smith, 1984, p. 123, col 1, par 1). Japanese managers showed the highest amount of high individualism and anti-conformity. They were more likely not to be influenced by the group and were willing to go in a direction not recommended by the group. The results of the study were very surprising for me based on the aforementioned points. I’ve always view Japan...
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...Ch r i s t i n e Ro e ll Intercultural Training with Films ilms are a great medium to use not only to practice English, but also to facilitate intercultural learning. Today English is a global language spoken by people from many countries and cultural backgrounds. Since culture greatly impacts communication, it is helpful for teachers to introduce lessons and activities that reveal how different dialects, forms of address, customs, taboos, and other cultural elements influence interaction among different groups. Numerous films contain excellent examples of intercultural communication and are highly useful resources for teachers. Additional reasons for teachers to incorporate films in class and encourage their students to watch movies in English include: • Films combine pleasure and learning by telling a story in a way that captures and holds the viewer’s interest. • Films simultaneously address different senses and cognitive channels. For example, spoken language is supported by visual elements that make it easier for students to understand the dialogues and the plot. • Students are exposed to the way people actually speak. 2 2010 N u m b e r F • Films involve the viewers, appeal to their feelings, and help them empathize with the protagonists. • DVDs usually come with subtitles in English, which facilitates understanding and improves reading skills. After discussing the importance of teaching intercultural communication and suggesting films that match specific cultural...
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...McCarthyism and The Second Red Scares impact on Media in the 1950-60s decades (Research and Analysis Paper) In 1950, fewer than 50,000 Americans out of a total US population of 150 million were members of the Communist Party(Gilder Lehrman). However following WWII the the time period of the 1950-1970 was marked as a period of mass fear of Communism. American fears of internal communist infiltration reached Its highest point since the First Red Scare of the 1920-30s. Government organizations investigated millions of americans, “asking what books and magazines they read, what unions and civic organizations they belonged to, and whether they went to church” (Gilder Lehrman). This time period was also marked by the major shift and blacklisting of celebrities primarily in show business. One of the people who took full advantage of the mass hysteria was Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin. McCarthy began his crusade by giving a speech at the Women’s Republican Club of Wheeling, in West Virginia, where he stated that he had a list of over 220 confirmed communists living in the US. The numbers of this statement dropped over the years as people began to watch him more closely. However this didn’t stop him from rising to more power, after the Republicans regained a majority in the senate, McCarthy took control of a subcommittee, and performed investigations on government agencies. Other Cold War “activists” consisted of Minnesota Senator Hubert Humphrey, union leader Walter Reuther...
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...filósofo y escritor Familia Cónyuge Linda Emery Hijo/s Brandon Bruce (1965–1993) Shannon Emery (1969) Bruce Lee Sitio oficial Bruce Lee en Facebook Bruce Lee en Twitter Bruce Lee (chino tradicional: 李小龍, chino simplificado: 李小龙, pinyin: Lǐ Xiăolóng —nacido Lee Jun-fan (chino: 李振藩, pinyin: Lǐ Zhènfān)— San Francisco, 27 de noviembre de 1940 - Hong Kong, 20 de julio de 1973) fue un destacado y carismático artista marcial, actor y filósofo de origen chino, catalogado como el más famoso del siglo XX por la perfección que logró en el desarrollo del kung fu y responsable de la apertura de las artes marciales chinas a Occidente. Índice [ocultar] 1 Introducción 2 Biografía 2.1 Primeros años 2.2 Retorno a Estados Unidos 2.3 Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute 2.4 Oakland 2.5 Bruce Lee: Estilo 2.6 Bruce Lee: Los desafíos reales 2.7 Cine 2.8 Muerte 3 Entrenamiento 4 Legado 5 Apariciones en los medios 5.1 Libros 5.2 Documentales 5.3 Filmografía completa 5.4 Videojuegos 5.5 Apariciones televisivas 5.6 Referencias 6 Los clones 7...
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