Gung Ho I recently read "Gung Ho!" written by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles. This book gives a unique perspective on the leader versus manager concepts. It depicts the struggles a General Manager faces as she is given the daunting task of running Walton Works # 2. This book shows how motivation‚ appreciation‚ and respect can help to transform a self-destructive plant into a thriving successful business. While on the surface Peggy Sinclair‚ the General Manager‚ thought that she was being
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Analysis of the Movie Gung Ho Stephen Draughon MKTG 3852 July 22‚ 2012 Table of Contents Executive Summary ........................................................................................................................ 3 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 5 I. American and Japanese cultural values compared and contrasted. .......................................
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Gung Ho is an American comedy movie released in 1986. The story of the movie is about the takeover of an American car plant by a Japanese corporation named “Assan Motors”. In a small town named “Hadleyville” in Pennsylvania‚ the local auto plant is closed for nine moths which supplied most of the jobs in the town. The former foreman of the plant goes to Tokyo and does a presentation to convince the “Assan Motors” corporation to re-open the plant and provide jobs for the town. The company agrees and
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scenes where you came across information on cultural differences between Japan and American workplaces. Please restrict each scene within 3-4 lines. ANS: From the Gung Ho Movie‚ it is not hard to recognize that there are lots of differences in culture‚ value‚ and work attitude between Japanese and American. Three scenes from the movie where the cultural differences are shown distinctly‚ are given below- 1. At work‚ Japanese production supervisors make the point that individual worker has to
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Gung Ho The movie “Gung Ho” is about a Japanese automobile company called the “Assan Motors” beginning to do business in the United States where cultural problem occurs between the Japanese managers and American employees. In the start of the movie‚ Hunt Stevenson goes to Japan and asks the firm owners to re-open the auto plant. After a little persuasion by Hunt Stevenson‚ the Japanese owners agree to run the business in the United States‚ but make assurance that the company will be directed by
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experienced an intercultural encounter in the movie of “Gung Ho”. Gung Ho is a movie that tells about the clash of cultures after a certain group of Japanese work together with American in order to reopen a car factory in a small town of Pennsylvania‚ America. The movie basically tells about the negative stereotypes and rivalry that are existed between those two groups while they are working together. In this paper‚ I want to address the issues on Gung Ho’s movie about the stereotypes and power distance
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Scottish Independence Pre-reading What do you know about Scotland? Use 5 minutes on writing down what you know about Scotland Comprehension 1. What are the arguments for Scottish independence? What are the arguments against? - they want to make their own decisions. The for is Scotland will become lot more independent. 2. Do you think it is solely an economic question? Why/why not? It is not only because of the economic‚ but it has something to do with it. There are a lot of cultural
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Reaction on Gung Ho movie When a Japanese automaker takes over a failed American auto plant‚ differences between American and Japanese work ethics threaten to close the plant. The local auto plant in Hadleyville‚ Pennsylvania‚ which supplied most of the town’s jobs‚ has been closed for nine months. 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.‚
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Chapter 4 Solutions 2. You have just won $10 million in the state lottery which promises to pay you $1 million (tax free) every year for the next ten years. Have you really won $10 million? No‚ because the present discounted value of these payments is necessarily less than $10 million as long as the interest rate is greater than zero. 3. If the interest rate is 10%‚ what is the present value of a security that pays you $1‚100 next year‚ $1‚210 the year after‚ and $1‚331 the year after
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Gung Ho! Increase Productivity‚ Profits‚ and Your Own Prosperity The Big Idea From a classic story about a plant called Walton Works #2‚ here are invaluable management lessons on increasing productivity by fostering high morale. It will work for any type of organization! Based on three core ideas: work must be seen as important‚ workers must be in control of their own production‚ and managers must cheer workers on. This is a tried and tested Native American recipe for surefire success. Follow
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