Just a little while earlier, our company executed a survey on a local Japan level towards all of the employees on the theme, "what do we need to do to become the number one company" and true to form the "number one" was not limited to our particular business, just generally best company *ever*. The survey consisted of some pretty dull open ended questions.Earlier in the week we received an analysis and compilation of the results of the survey. The answers had been grouped into different categories and ranked. To my disbelief I noticed that "to be a company that deliver results" had received 4 votes out of our approximately 200 employees here in Japan and was in the bottom of the ranking, by far overpowered by such important things as "being full of energetic and happy employees" and "being able to trust other employees".
Sometimes I just wish I was one of them and wouldn't get so annoyed by things like this...
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Sounds really useful.
Now you know you have to get results and trust other employees, whereas before you had no interest in results and made a pointed effort to believe the opposite of anything told to you.
Wow, you have such a great way of looking at things, you should come and work with us!
Does this result reflect the Japanese group psychology?
It is known that Japanese are more collectively oriented to group cohesion than individuality, compared to British or US people.
Well if they stopped having drinking parties at the drop of a hat which is supposed to promote a team atmosphere but really just let's people vent and say shit that really is insulting,rude,harrasing...
Maybe "trust" wouldn't be an issue?
@RMilner
read the lines...not even between them.
does trusting co-workers seem like a high ranking objective for a supposedly "collectively oriented" group?
They need to "re-orient" themselves and their priorities.
Japan ranks below America and 3 other countries in average daily output per worker as recently as 2007.
It seems like they can't get out of their own fucking way sometimes.
RMilner and Chris - Well, in this case it's not a matter of group psychology, it's the result of a poorly constructed survey, strange analysis and pure stupidity. I tell my Japanese friends in other companies about stuff like this and they can hardly believe it either...
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