Research On Amoeba Management Model At HX Group

Amoeba Management Model derives from the early years of business difficulties of Kazuo Inamori who is known as the Japanese "Sage in management" when he was not only responsible for the company’s research and development,but alsomarketing of products,and when the company expanded to more than 100 staff,hefelt unbearably tired and eager to have multiple divisions of himself to take responsibilities of each important departments.Hence he divided the company into small units called "amoeba",and selected amoeba leaders from within the company and entrusted them with the task,by which method it cultivated a number of managers with entrepreneurial consciousness.Mr.Kazuo founded the Japanese Kyocera Corporation and DDI(now known as KDDI),bothcompanies have become the Fortune Global 500 in his lifetime.With amoeba business philosophy and management method,Kyocera became the only large Japanese enterprise that survived four economic crisis and what’s more it never lost profits during a 50-consecutive-years period which represents a miracle.The successful operation of amoeba business model in Kyocera has attracted a lot of Chinese enterprises to learn and introduce amoeba management model.Some domestic enterprises have greatly improved the overall initiative after implementing amoeba management,and cultivated "entrepreneurs" that grow with the enterprises,in the meantime of improving the management system of the company.HX Group is a listed private company in China.In early 2015,HX GROUP management decided to introduce amoeba management concept and implement amoeba management fully within the group and subsidiaries to enhance the self-management awareness of staff in order to promote the overall organization efficiency.This paper focuses on the HX Group’s amoeba management pilot to the real estate business to the full implementation of such management program throughout the group,and the analysis of the expected results,it also studies the experiences and gains and losses during the application of amoeba management.This paper targets on the introduction and implementation of amoeba management in HX Group,summarizes the key factors in the implementation of management model,and provides a reference case of management innovation and implementation of amoeba business model for domestic enterprises.