Contemporary Japanese Management Thought Research

Contemporary management thinking in Japan along with the development of the Japanese management practices and continuous development, the history of postwar Japan’s high-speed growth, making the Japanese management ideas and management practices gradually attracted the attention of other countries. Study of contemporary Japanese management thought as well as the management philosophy of Japanese companies, contribute to the continuous development and improvement of management ideas and management practices.Special geographic environment in Japan, their "home" culture, collectivist cultures and growing rice culture and unique cultural background, gave birth to the soil management thinking. Japanese management thought and its history of capitalist development, the same strain, roughly from the Meiji Restoration so far can be divided into three different stages:traditional management, scientific management and modern management stage. Its greatest feature is combination of Eastern and Western management thought, the formation of a unique business philosophy and corporate system.Japanese management thinking from the famous Japanese management expert thinking on the one hand, the other hand, the management practices of entrepreneurs. Kaoru Ishikawa and company-wide quality management in a Japanese company to get a very wide range of use; Nonaka Yu Jiro’s knowledge management thinking, to prove the organization’s knowledge creation capability is a source of organizational development; Ohmae research one of the corporate strategic thinking, let the world understand the important value of strategic thinking. Generations of Japanese entrepreneurs in management practice and its business philosophy makes the development of Japan’s corporate dominate Shibusawa Eiichi Analects abacus Theory "in Japan for the first time confirmed the unity of moral and economic thinking; Matsushita management philosophy made him known as the "god of business management; Sony founder Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita management practice reflects the innovative thinking and teamwork; Mitsubishi Yataro Iwasaki, founder of national identity;" Amoeba Management "put in place the Inamori; Soichiro Honda, the concept of talent; Toyota lean management mode to promote Japan’s economic takeoff.Japanese management thinking melt the Oriental Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism thinking, while Western heritage management thinking. The formation of this feature is closely related to Japan’s unique geographical environment, the background of the historical development and cultural characteristics and unusual values. Lifetime employment system, Japanese companies Annual Merits management system, its success, but is gradually exposed some shortcomings, the management of Japanese companies are also facing some cultural traditions succession issues and cultural grafted issues. The Japanese need to introduce a new management thinking in order to achieve the optimal level of management to respond to the era of rapid development. Japan’s post-war development breakthrough has important reference significance for China’s development, China and Japan there are differences in management philosophy, but the "home" culture,"melt" culture,"and" culture and a sense of crisis worthy of our learning.The purpose of this study is a comprehensive system of management thinking in Japan, and some Japanese entrepreneurs Modern management practices, to analyze its characteristics, limitations, and Implications for China, and finally put forward a new outlook on Japanese management. This thesis is divided into six chapters:Chapter1:Introduction. Research of the Japanese management thinking clarifies the meaning of Japanese management ideas and research and the research method.Chapter2:Japanese management thinking produces, evolution and management system characteristics. Management ideas generated background, including Japan and the evolution of the stage as well as the characteristics of the Japanese enterprise management.Chapter3:Japanese management expert ideas and entrepreneurial management practice. Kaoru Ishikawa of company-wide quality management, well-known management expert introduces Nonaka knowledge management thinking, Kenichi Ohmae corporate strategic management thinking; representative of the management practices of the entrepreneurs Shibusawa Eiichi, Matsushita Yataro Iwasaki, Akio Morita, Kazuo Inamori, Soichiro Honda and Toyota family.Chapter4:Analyze the characteristics and causes of the Japanese management thinking. Discusses the characteristics of Japanese management thinking and the reasons for the formation, and briefly describes the overview of the development of management thinking in Japan.Chapter5:Japan limitations of management thinking and its future prospects. This chapter is the crowning touch of this article focuses on the limitations of management thinking and new problems encountered in the current Japanese management, the last of the outlook for the future development of Japanese management thinking.Chapter6:The revelation of the Japanese management thinking. First, about the Sino-Japanese at the differences in management philosophy, and then specifically addressed worth learning Japanese management thinking. Types of organizations in the management philosophy and way of localization improve its essence breakthrough on soft power, organizational development, and enhance innovation capability, the differences in seeking to develop.