East Asia - The case of Japan Management Model -

China, Japan, Mongolia, South and North Korea, Russia, Siberia and Taiwan are some countries that take place at East Asia. Explaining each other with its capital, economy, GDP, population and religion, among other aspects they arrived up to the very interesting case of Japan and its known Management Model that overlapped in some aspects with it with the Korean, as the following chart:

Both with their similar beginnings, (Korea's following attitude took Japan as a model), but with some differences too.

Is interesting and helpful to know something about Japanese model characterized by three pillars:

1. Prefer inexperienced graduates
2. Promotion from within
3. Commitment of excellence and quality

Is this Management model spreading around the world? Yes, even in Colombia some companies are picking some ideas to coordinate, create commitment, excellence and quality inside with their employees. The pioneers are Views, enterprise developer of market research, and Corona a company that from ceramics and other materials creates sets of dishes, complete materials for lavatories, and faucets.
This company is managing several types of management that they named as The Corona Kit - Improvement culture and high performance - the one that contains: Six sigma, Six sigma design, work out, lean production and TPM. All of them for a continuous improvement for better results, solving problems, management improvement and the processes performances.

Is impressive to see how the Asiatic culture, specially the Japanese has arrived to our country and in this way to the companies in order to accomplish some rules of the Kaizen, a system of suggestion that remarks the importance of the continuous improvement putting your target a little bit higher; making progress one's work, people's work and one's department. Everything emerged because the history of Japan vs. China, and its dynamic attitude that challenges the culture in order to follow something I had repeated a lot of times trough this subject: Improvement mixed with the insights of the Japanese culture.

Bibliography

• Rodas, J.M. & Saldarriaga, L.F. & Restrepo, M.C. 2009. Presentation "East Asia" Organization and Cultures Subject, Universidad EAFIT.
• Presentation " Cultura de mejoramiento y Alto desempeño" Kit Corona, Corona. (2007) envivo.eafit.edu.co/simprotextos/CORONA.ppt. Retrieved on March 29, 2009.
  
• Seis SIGMA. Rumbo a la perfección. (2007) En: Revista Dinero. http://www.dinero.com/wf_InfoArticulo.aspx?idArt=32886. Retrieved on March 29, 2009.