Would British Business Management Style be affected by the Japanese Approach in the Context of Globalization?

Abstract

The management styles of Japanese are definitely effective in the business operations. This article aims to identify whether the British business management style could be affected by the Japanese approach due to the Japanese branches in the UK. The cultural differences should be existed and stable to show the obvious gap even though the convergency trend from the globalization pressure. Hence, the Japanese subsidiaries in the UK would be also hard to copy the operating system in Japan. However, the managers of the UK could learn the experiences from the Japanese subsidiaries in some extent to help British company to get more productivity. The paper identifies the tasks and principles and evaluates the influences of Japanese branches in the UK. Then the approaches of the learning of Britain organization have been analyzed. Keywords—British; Japanese; management style; crosscultural differences