Exporting American Managerial Ideas to the Far East

Abstract

The author, in this article, describes his experiences while teaching about management at various locations in the Far East. He points out thal when he taught Asian managers about the dominant views held by American managers (and their teachers) concerning motivation, productivity, appraisals, individualism, and participation, his students reacted and stated that many of these ideas were irrelevant in Far Eastern cultures. But the author points out that some of the Asian students were troubled by what they viewed as the differences between American management style and the style of the managers for whom they worked and these troubled feelings may well affect productivity In these increasingly productive countries.