A way to avoid conflicts

The Japanese country is very hierarchical organized with individuals knowing their position within a group and in the society. The article “doing business in Japan” writes that status is determined by factors such as age, employment, company and family background. Japan is a collective culture and it is the sense of belonging to a group that gives Japanese companies their strength and purpose. The picture is from CIE office and as wee can see does the Japanese people sit in an open landscape in the offices. This means that information and communication flow and interact everyone at the office. I think this can be a factor, or a good way to work to avoid conflicts. Edward T Hall writes in his book “hidden differences” that even though Japan is a very hierarchical country the Japanese people value to build good relationships with everyone at work, not only the ones with higher status and that everyone’s opinion is very important while making decisions. I did some research about how the furniture’s is arrange at the CIE office what the furniture arrangement means. The employees with the highest status sits in the back row, then the status is gradually becoming lower, the people in the front row have the lowest status and are often the people who started to work at CIE at last, but as Edward T Hall wrote, it can also be determinate of age and other factors.

The Japanese spend a lot of time at work to do their job and since Japan is a collective culture, the employees work very hard to not let their team down. Edward T Hall writes that it is the sense of belonging to a group that gives the Japanese company’s their strengths and purpose. Another thing I noticed is that the Japanese people value to build very good relationships with their clients and colleges. This mean that they don’t only spend a lot of time together at work talking about everything, they also spend time together after work to get to know each other more personally. The Japanese people often see themselves as a company representative then an individual. The Japanese people are very committed to work and I think it means very much to know, respect each other at work and while doing business.