| FaRmLaNd said: Well considering I work at Sony I certainly hope thats not that case. But I live in Australia and am Australian, so we don't have any Japanese business culture in our office at all (at least the part of Sony I work in). |
I also work at sony, but Sony in Japan.
What you guys have to realize is japanese companies are very much scared of foreigners taking over.
I can think of very few companies that have foreigners as presidents with headquarters in japan.
The big 2 that everybody is complaining about here in japan is sony and nissan.
Both companies were never known to lay off employees.
Once the companies get in trouble, they decide a lay off is something they have to do. Of course if the japanese president does it, it gives a bad image to the company.
However, if you hire a foreigner and have him layoff people, japanese citizens will just blame it on foreign management.
Its a way of keeping the company's image crystal clear inside Japan.
Also japanese presidents usually have trouble trying to layoff people, foreigners don't have as much trouble doing it.
By the way, I'm an American writing this reply.
Oh, and Kaz Hirai might as well be an american, but he has a good japanese image to the japanese people.
He was really born and raised in other countries so he has an american way of thinking.
