This movie is about cross-cultural relationships.
Western conflicts with Japanese culture. When a Japanese car company buys an American plant, the American liaison must mediate the clash of work attitudes between the foreign management and native labor.
What did you learn from this movie?
Under the background of globalization,We need to cooperate with each nation despite the disadvantages of the nation.
Where there is a will, there is a way. This is the only sentence I want to say about this film.
Although we have different cultures,only we have the same goal.We can achieve it together.
Unity is strength, unity is not impossible to do everythings
Different nations have different cultures,it lead to some problems in work. When cooperate with other nations you should respect their belief and find a same point to get along with.In the film they share an same interest.
Different countries have different cultures.But if they own same aim to do something, they will bind together to fight against the common enemy. Then they have chance to be successful.
Never give up. You will succeed.
Sometims we should persist in the ways of ourselves.Do not always have a compromise with others.
Cooperation is very important, we must learn to communicate and understand each other.
Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.
People should consider the problem from another angle.Put yourself into it,you will gain something else.
Every country has its own customs. So the world has cultural conflicts among countries. For we can develop together, we must understand each other and take advantage of both sides to seek better development .
What I learn from the movie is Japanese attitude on work,just as I heard on net,newspaper,so hard-working,that the thing we should learn from the movie,and with the cross-culture,we should tolerance it,find the good thing,use it,and for the bad one,change it.
After i watched the movie,i learn that unless we realise our weakness ,are willing to cooperate with others and have the persistence to do everything,we would not succeed.
There is no permanent friends, only permanent interests.Common interests brought us together.
Different cultures, there is a contradiction between two country’s people is very normal, this need each other genuine communication to solve the problem.
When we work with foreigners,we should understand and respect each other’s culture,so we can have less conflict with each other and work happily and efficiently
No noe can change the environment around himself/herslf,that means you can not do not but to adapt the work environment. From the other hand,you can think if you do not want to be looked down, you should be stronger than others.
Before we Cooperate with each other，we should learn to respect each other
From this movie,I see the different culture between two different country,when we do our work in the future,we must change ourseives,adapt the environment,or we maybe have a lot of touble in our life.
I hate Japenese!From the movie ,I found that there is really something we need to learn from Japenese!First ,those earnest.What’s more , the spirit of team.Japenese football is much better than chinaese.why?team.
Problem and the Cause:
In the movie, the problem is the discordance between the two cultures. Besides lifestyle, women’s participation in business and the different etiquette, the two countries also don’t share the same enterprise/company/factory spirit. The Americans emphasize more on individuals while the Japanese see the team and the company as the most important. Thereby different enterprise spirit leads to different working attitudes, and arise much discordance between Americana and Japan staff in the movie.
Solution:
Though cultural difference is a big issue, I think people shouldn’t always always and always think about the differences between cultures. We should try to find what we have in common and understand each other better. Learn inter-culture communication is important. Two different cultures may combine their best part and avert the shortcomings to come up with a negotiation. In the end of the movie, it’s obvious that the six cars are all below standard, but the Japanese boss should count them into 15,000 cars. Why!？ I think he is moved by something. He notices what he is familiar with in those American guys—collectivism, but it’s another type of UNITY, another type of loyalty to the company and another type of COLLECTIVISM, which contains more humanity and care than in the Japanese company culture.
Further Analysis and Examples:
America and Japan were the top two fastest countries to grow up to great power after WWII and they ran in two ways. Does it mean that individualism and collectivism can work out separately? I believe not. They cannot be divided, but only can be balanced. Losing one of them, a company will lose. In the beginning of the movie, the car factory is being closed. I think the American worker’s casual working attitude may be one of the major reasons that leads to the factories’ failure. Out of the movie, as we know, there were more than 11 employees from Fujitsu Company (Japan company in China)who commit suicide last year. Those were tragedies caused by neglect of individualism.
Problem：
American employees can not understand their Japanese employers’ way of operating the car factory. They are reluctant to follow the instructions of their Japanese boss. They want to work in their own way and get a raise in salary. On the other hand, the Japanese businessmen ask the American employees to work as hard as they can for the company’s interest. In their eyes, the only value of worker is work.
Cause:
The essence of the problem is the ideology difference between American people and Japanese people. In other words, the orientation that charaterizes the thinking of Americans is quite distinctive from that of the Japanese. American people advocate freedom and uniqueness. They attach great importance to individuals. However, Japanese people believe teamwork is crucial to the development of a company. They put more emphasis on absolute submission and high efficiency. They think everyone should put the interests of a group above their personal interests.
Solution:
American emlpoyees can try to be more cooperative and hardworking, while Japanese employers should care more about their employers’ personal interests, and be more humane. They should listen to their employees’ voices. In a word, American employees should learn to work as a group, and put the company’s interest in the first place. Japanese employers should run their business in a more flexible way, and pay attention to their employees’ needs and interests.
Problem:
It is about the misunderstanding and conflict between the Japanese and American cultures.
Cause:
In Japan, it focuses on the value of the whole group(eg. the whole company’s profit), while in America, it’s absolutely different(eg. the individual’s benefit). Individualism is the core in western countries, especially in America. Thus, when these two extrems of value judgements mix together, it is natural that the misunderstanding and conflict between their cultures appear.
Solution:
“Respect each other, seek the common ground while putting aside differences.” This sentence is said by Zhou Enlai, who was first Prime Minister of People’s Republic China. It can be used here to solve this problem. Both of them should respect the advantages of their own value judgement and join together to profit more than a sole funded company.
The main problem happened in the movie is the culture difference in lifestyle and company spirit. The American workers think they should enjoy their life and they just take work as a way to afford family. However, the Japanese take their career as the top and care more about the interest of team instead of individual interest. Thus, we can see some conflicts in the movie. For example, American workers want to make the car in the way they like but Japanese insist that everyone should do in the same way.
I think the solution of this problem is to communication and find the common interest. Although the end of this movie is a little childish, we can still see that when the two group of people understand each other, they move the boss and get their job back.
Nowadays, global economy has been the main economy form. So, to understand the culture difference is an issue need to be learnt for every businessman in global business. A widely known example in China is the White Elephant Battery. White Elephant Battery is famous for its high quality in 1980′s in China. The company decided to make it into American market but actually failed later for the reason that the name of brand, White Elephant, means something big, stupid and low efficiency in the U.S. That is one example which shows business failure caused by culture difference.
PROBLEM:
People from different culture background have conflicts when communicating with each other.And they behave differently, understand differently.
CAUSE:
In the communication from different culture, people are talking without speaking, hearing without listening(lyric of the sound of silence)
SOLUTION:
People should open their heart and ignore the differences on the surface, and try to understand others in the level of humanity. No matter how differently people have in behave, they must share something in common in the deep soul, so that if they can have real communication by soul, no difference is existing.
The Problem
The clash between American workers and Japanese officers derive from the fundamental different ways of thinking in those two countries. The American workers refuse to conform to the strict and rigid Japanese company roles.
The Source of the Problem
The conflict between American employees and Japanese employers is due to these two countries’ different values and beliefs. America is a nation that embraces for independence and freedom, but Japan is a nation that puts emphasize on unity and conformity. Consequently, Americans, who emphasize their individuality and uniqueness, would reject the Japanese officers’ notion of thinking as one.
Solution
In a business situation like Gung Ho, the best way to tackle with the problem is to learn from each other. It is unquestionable each company has its own merits. Simply adopting Japanese way or maintaining American way is not adequate. The factory should adopt disciplines to improve the product’s quality and quantity while maintain its lively and friendly working environment.
1.Problem
WHen the conflict between Japanese culture and American culture hapened, we could not give a perfect answer. When the American works in the company could not understand Japanese workers, I felt disapointed and thought about myself also.
2.Cause
People are always thinking about themselves first when they are in some certain position. we would like to think that our opions are better than others and this thought will give us some confidence and make us feel our position is steadfast.
3.solution
students can try to read as different books as possible and listen to different lectures to open their ideas. Even though we just a small group in society, we will become the main idea steam in the future.
Identify Problem:
The problem that the movie has shown us is the conflict between American value and Japanese value. American workers and Japanese bosses are having quarrels and disagreements all the time.
Analyze Cause:
American people don’t regard work as important as Japanese. They need time to play, to hang out with family and friends and to have their own private life. However, Japanese people consider it an honor to be a member of a company that develops so well. They devote all of their time to work, aiming to achieve the super goal that company burdened on their shoulder. That is two different value and consideration about work. That is why the conflicts are happening all the time.
Proper Solution:
It is difficult to change one cultural value at a short time. The most proper way to solve this problem is that both sides make compromise. American workers devote a little more of their private time to work, in order to finish task. While Japanese employers lower the standard a little that is acceptable to their employees.
Problem: The movie mainly reveals the conflict between oriental and western culture from the angle of business operating pattern and cognization of team spirit. American employee is fond of “special”, which is the “taboo” for Japanese company. Japanese management prefers to work with a machine heart to maximize the efficiency they recognize while American enjoy the work as their game in the daytime.
Cause: When it comes to the difference between the two hemisphere, way of thinking and values shaped by the given society and the developing history of it can always be the root account. Individualism is a significant part of American spirit while collectivism is vital to Japan.These two philosophical arguments are always regarded as two sheer contrasting ideas. Actually this is just our metaphysical view about them. We see American’s individualism and then we form a stereotype that they always put their own interest in the first place and can never make accomplishment in team work. Then, why they hold the most fanscniating basketball team which need lots of team work in the world? And why they love baseball which is also a team game? They perfectly understand the concept of team. However, the team spirit they recognize is embedded on individualism while to Japanese individualism is embedded on the team.
Solution: Hence, to solve this problem, we must get rid of our metaphiscal thought that they like “special” means they are typical “special” , and establish a dialectical cognization to this difference. In these two culture, only one part (or individualism, or team)can be the “bed”, via mutual understanding and learning, either of two parts can be transferred to the “bed”.
Problem: Japanese employer wants its employee to work in the Japanese way and strive for conpamy’s profit regardless of workers’personal wishes. American employees want to work in the way they know best as they want to and used to do.
Cause: Conflict between individualism/specialness and collectivism/group. Americans need to feel “special” even in their work; Japanese work for the group with no one being special.
Solution: Each learns from another. Maxmize the strengths of both parties concerned. Work for the company, but work for themselves, too.
Problem: Through this movie, I see the differences between Japanese and American on working ethics and life style. While Japanese sing high praises of discipline, intruistic dedication and close cooperation among team members, Americans put importantce on originality, competition and individualism. And while Japanese work more seriously and formally, Americans tend to be casual and humorous.
Cause: I believe the difference between these two lies in their history and culture. Japanese culture is deeply influenced by Chinese culture, and therefore is based on Confusionism, which advocates the idea of communal harmony by uplifting oneself. The strict social classes and system control people much more than other economic forms. On the contrary, Americans, as settlers in America, created and developed their own ideal living environment by hard work and the positive spirit to fight with difficulties with vigor and vitality. Therefore, Americans care for individual rights and obligations, and they pay attention to personal gains.
Solution: The only way to solve this problem is cooperation with concerns for both sides. While Japanese should respect American way of working and enjoying life, Americans should also pay respect to their employers by adjusting to new disciplines and rules within the company. It’s very unwise to change each side completely so that one can confide with the other, therefore, a middle line should be drawn and both sides should learn to understand and compromise.
Problems
The Japanese and American have different values in their work and life. In this movie, there are many conflicts between the two culture. First, the problem is the balance of work and family. The Americans emphasize more on family and quality of life. In contrast, the Japanese always put work in the first place. Second, the conflict is between individualism and collectivism ideas. The Americans want to be different, independent and special. However, the Japanese want to be the same with others. Third, the two nations have different ways of dealing with problems. The Americans are flexible and the Japanese are strict
Causes
First, Japan and America have different political background. Because Japan has a long history of feudal system, it stresses on the hierarchy and order. Every one in the society has his position and he must do his obligations. This value also influences the company management. The employees are expected to obey the rules and do their obligations without their own ideas. The US has a short history and people have enjoyed more individual freedom. They want to be different and special.
Second, Japan and America have different geographic position. Japan is a small island and short of rescourses. The Japanese have to do everything they can to survive. Therefore, the Japanese want team work and they emphasize the collectivism more. The US is a powerful country with rich rescourses. People don’t have that kind of pressure and they can depend on themselves.
Solution
Communication is the proper way to make people from different cultures to understand each other. They can find the nature of problems and find solutions by discussion. Compromise is also the necessary way to cooperate with different people. They must find what they have in common and also respect their differences.
case analysis of Gung Ho
Problem: cultural clash between Japanese culture and American culture.
Cause: In American value system, individualism is above all, it’s above the collective benefits. While in Japan, the interests of the country, the company, the team is above all. Today, Americans are prouder of themselves than ever, because first, America is the world’s first power; second, US won two world wars, especially the victory of the Second World War, which was definitely a boost to Americans’ confidence. In contrary, Japan lost two world wars, and was attacked by US’s two nuclear bombs, their confidence was down to zero. The only way to prove themselves was through work.
Solution: Everyone should learn to respect a culture before judging it.
Problem：
Each culture has its central values and emphasizes are different. So there are many conflicts in international communication. In the movie the issue mainly is about emphasize on individual or team and their attitude toward women and job.
Cause:
Japanese was based on an island country, which is short of resources. This resulted in their values in which they took things seriously. They pay much attention to efficiency, and are strict with their work. Cooperation is much more important than individual, because it brings efficiency. They pursue zero defects because they value resources. While, in America individual is more important, they pursue freedom, which is the reason they came all the way from Europe, escaping from the religion persecution. Americans pursue the sense of happiness. They want to enjoy their life and are not as strict as Japanese. In the long history of Japan, women are of low status, while in America after the female right movement women’s status was greatly improved.
Solution:
we should respect all the civilization in the world. No matter you agree or not agree with it, open mind is needed. No civilization is inferior to the other, and every civilization arose from its own condition. We should reject ethnocentrism and try to understand others’ perceptions. As for the Japanese and Americans in the movie, they finally overcome the conflicts and promise on both sides. This is a big success. As long as we try to cooperate and respect each other, “seek common ground while reserving differences” can be achieved.
Problem:
America and Japan have their own culture and their own ways to do things. Different countries cooperate made the foreign management and native labor meet some problems on culture shock.
Cause:
In America, most people pursue freedom. They like doing things in their own ways and would get praise on doing things uniquely. They do their jobs at anytime they want to work.
In Japan, most people are asked unify. Everybody does same things every day. The different one would be criticize and forced to do the same thing with the others.
Solution:
The foreign management and native labor should try to understand the way of thinking style of the opposite part. And they should make a agreement on creating a new method on how to run the plant in a both acceptable way.
Problem and cause:
America and Japan have different cultural background, caused by the difference in history, race, environment, ethic system and levels of economy.
American workers prefer individual-oriented. The individual moral autonomy is the basis of American political,economic and social thoughts. American thoughts originated from the independence from British control.
Japanese values team work, high praises for individuals to uplift themselves for the benefit of communal harmony.
Solution:
As the global integration of economy and culture, the whole world is becoming increasingly smaller, with a better understanding of each other. Each nationality should understand and consider much more about other cultures. Cultural exchanges and communication can make the relationship better.
Problem：There are cultural differences exist between Japan and America.
Cause:America and Japan share different cultural history. They are two countries under totally different cultural background.People in the two countries have different values toward many things. In America, individual profits is overiding all the other things;while in Janpan is totally different, they consider group profits more important than individual ones.
Solution:Cross-cultural communication is very important, we need to know more about other cultural before we communicate with each other.Also we need to learn more in order to behave better.
Problem：
The prlblem is the attitude of work and the way of work is different.
Cause:
Japan and Amercian is quite differernt in conomic,family,history,education and many other fields. The culture and traditional cause the problem. American like individuality and work use their own way. They like freedom.But sometimes they aren’t work hard enough. Janpanese work hard and have the team sprint very much. But sometime they are too rigid.
Solution:
They should know more about opposite tradition befor they cooperation. They need more communication with each other. And to correct defects, to learn the positive side. It will make the work goes will.
Problem: the main problem of this movie is the conflict between America and Japan, the cultural conflict between different countries.
Cause: this is because the cultures in different countries are different. In America, people prefer the flexible work and self-value, but in Japan, people prefer team work and always lack the courage to resist their boss. the different way of working style bring them many troubles.
Solution: I think the basic way to solve the problem is to respect each other’s culture and learn from each other. try to adapt to the different situation and it can be benefit to both side.
Problem：In this movie, Americans cannot understand Japanese’ way both in business and life. Japanese prefer to be strict with everything they confront in work,they are so rigid under great pressure. While Americans like to work with smile, music, etc.
Cause: The problem is mainly because of cultural clash between two countries. Americans emphasize idividual, but Japanese take more attention on the team work. They have totally different values.
Solution:
Two countries both should learn each other’s culture.
Problem:
Japanese and Americans treat work with different attitudes. Japanese are serious and group-oriented while Americans are casual and individual-oriented. These differences result in conflicts when Americans work for a corporation operated by Japanese.
Cause:
The different attitudes of treating work result from their different attitudes towards life, while their different attitudes towards life generated from historical and material background. As to history, with seldom foreign race coming into the nation, Japan almost consists of a single race. People are intimate like a group. However, America is made of different races, which makes its people less close. In terms of material background, Japan has limited natural resources. Therefore people have to work closely with each other. America has abundant natural resources so that people can maximize their talents to make use of the resources.
Solutions:
As all the corporations are made of two parts—employees and employers, both groups are supposed to make kind of effort. On the one hand, employees should discuss with their bosses about the problem and let leaders know their inadaptability due to cultural difference. However, after their bosses make decisions of management style, they should obey the decision and get accustomed to it. On the other hand, employers should take any action based on profit. If it’s more profitable to manage the employees in their familiar way, then just take it. Besides, they can make use of the customs of their employees to gain interest. For example, as Americans are individual-oriented, employers can select and award the best worker every month to stimulate employees to gain output.
Problem
It’s obvious that there was a huge gap between the American culture and Japanese.
Cause
Japan is a small country, so they have the idea that in case other strong countries to take over their country so they do all- out effort to make themselves to be the strongest one. In this way, they need to unite together, so team work to them is the most essential value. The benefit of the whole country is the point, so work becomes the most important thing not their life and their family. Another reason is everyone should be the same no outstanding one person just one outstanding team or a country.
However, American want to be different, special is what they want. Compared with Japanese, they are more individual instead of collective. Another problem is they have the clear boundary between work and rest. When they have a weekend they enjoy it to relax themselves, while Japanese may do their unfinished task and talk about it even during their dining time.
Solution
To understand each other is the best way not just complaining about how stupid or unreasonable. A better way is “do in Rome as Roman does” especially at the beginning. When they gradually know each other better, they can discuss this issue to put forward a solution which can be acceptable by both sides. Another way is to find out the strength and the weakness to analyze them and solve them. Avoiding the problem or hiding the truth are not good way to deal with them, so to be honest is a good way.
Identify Problem:
“Gung Ho” focuses on Hunt Stevenson, the automakers union representative from Hadleyville (a small town in Pennsylvania.) Hunt has been asked to go to the Assan Motor Company to ask them to open a plant in their town. When Assan did buy this plant, Hunt had been offered job as American liason and must mediate the clash of work attitudes between the foreign management and native labor for the two different cultures just can’t go together.
Analyze Cause:
An American often values his traditions but often makes trouble in the pride and trade unionism while Japanese workers are extremely devoted to their job and lacking in personal satisfaction and feelings of self-worth. Stevenson is a classic American working class figure of average intelligence. Kazuhiro is the mirror image of Stevenson: he is shy and introspective, but he is also reluctant to be the bearer of bad news due to his upbringings. The cultures make the difference and cause the clash.
Proper Solution:
A succesful management must always incorporate cultures. So the surviving methods for a foreign company is to make its stuff learn. Understanding can explain all the unpleasant moments. Still, there are social activities for individuals to join and feel the different culture. And also there are common laws and rules to keep people make right behaviors.
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Problem:
The Japanese and American have different ways of life and work.Japanese make a distinction between work and life.When they work, they require absolute discipline,while American people mix work and life together.They can work by listening to music or reading newspaper.
Cause:
Cultural and Economic background together result in the problem. Japanese people honor the loyalty to company very much and they regard company and work more important than individual benefit.So when they work, they are serious. However, for the American, they see freedom as their life, so they always try to seek personal benefit, even at work.
Solution:
I like the Japanese’s spirit. However, they aren’t able to make people from other country to do things by their way. So before a cooperation begins, the two sides should reach an agreement and lead their road according to it.
1.Identify Problem:
-Basically, the problems are started from different work ethics and attitude between America and Japan.
2.Analyze Cause:
- In the very beginning of the movie, we can find a clue of the problem. when Hunt goes to the Japan to deal with reopen the car factory with Assan Company, the way of Hunt saying is very outspoken and unrestrited. on the other hand that japanese are very serious in their tone and expression. Also we can see the difference apparently in their work attitude, work system and value. repeatedly said, they conflict with difference.
3.Propose Solution
- In my opinion, each country has their own culture and cutom. It is impossible that any side change their custom of their own to be harmonious. therefore, they should respect and understand each other. also they can create new culture between japan and America.
Firstly,I should say that before I watched the movie,I googled the key word “Gung Ho” in google and found it in Wiki.
It says that “(although the title of the film is actually an Americanized Chinese expression, for “work” and “together”)”.So I think it is a Chinese word in the class,not developed by American in the WWII.
Secondly,I learned that despite huge cultural difference between diffenent countries,as long as we respect each other,we can stay in peace together.