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The business world is an ever-changing environment, and theories of management seem to come and go. Trends in management seem to swing every 10 years or so like a pendulum, sweeping from one extreme to another. At one end is the hard-as-nails, cold management style that relies on numbers and statistics to make decisions regardless of their effect on workers. ...
Is there one method of management universal enough to work across the breadth of the pendulums arc, or are we as managers to be left swinging in the winds of change? ... Samurai Management is based on the Code of Bushido, designed to bring order and efficiency to Japan centuries ago. The Samurai were both ruthless killers and consummate artists. ... The Samurai class managed Japan with both an iron fist and a velvet glove, developing a system of incredible efficiency at a time when business technology was certainly crude by any measure. ... In 1899, our modern understanding of Samurai Management was described in a book written by Inazo Nitobe called "Bushido: The Warriors Code. ... In management, there are times of really good news, promotions, and bonuses. ...
Sun Tzu & Management, Khoo Kheng Hors second effort after War at Work : Applying Sun Tzus Art of War in Todays Business World is an attempt to elucidate on the theories he covered in his first work. In Sun Tzu & Management Khoo looks in more detail at how to apply Sun Tzus theories to managing daily business situations. ... It begins with an overview of the application of Sun Tzus Art of War in todays management. ...
Part three delves into the management of the internal environment of a business using the principles laid out by Sun Tzu and the final section of the book deals with the management of the external environment, detailing strategy formulation and implementation, including how to deal with competitors.
Basically what Khoo appears to have done is to take Sun Tzus perceptive study of what is actually management, albeit of a war, and adapt it to various existing management theories. Each section contains excerpts from the Art of War which are relevant to areas of management specified by Khoo who then proceeds to demonstrate how they apply in todays business world. ... believing it to be nothing but academic pedantry, Khoo has managed to bring the whole subject to a most welcome level of realism by injecting examples of actual management situations he has come across in his career (including a couple of amusing ones) and detailing how they could be dealt with using the Art of War. ... This chapter convincingly explains the concept of territoriality in the office, and how it is used in power plays at management level. ...
There is, of course, a chapter in the book on a subject found in any discourse on management - the Japanese angle. In Sun Tzu & Management, the author examines the Japanese appreciation of Sun Tzus Art of War and discusses the now well known course they have followed of applying a mixture Of Western and Eastern management philosophy. ...
The practice of Total Quality Management has had a chequered introduction into Asia. ... Japanese management expertise often came accompanied with TQM, and it also offered a way to manage diverse business systems and investments for the Japanese owners. ... A good introduction to TQM and its definations, including a table summarising the history and variety of definations is available as one of the free articles this week:
Total quality management: origins and evolution of the term
Angel R. ... The other recognised quality management gurus such as Crosby, Deming and Juran have shaped the dimensions, practices and mechanism which underpin the concept, but it is noted that none of these three actually uses the TQM term.
Approximate Word count = 2987
Approximate Pages = 11.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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