The Case Study Of Employee Relations In YKK

After 70s' in last century, the global economy has come into the time of jointly operation. While having created a lot economic miracles, jointly operation is also perplexed by many management issues. With more transnational corporations coming up and the expanding of their business, the influence to the management due to the cultural difference becomes more and more important, thus the cross-cultural management research makes a lot sense now.This article takes one Japanese Sole Ownership Company "YKK Company" as the study case, analyzes the cultural conflicts between China and Japan using the contemporary cross-cultural management principles. The management team of the "YKK Company" is from China and Japan, the different cultural background brings up the gap on thinking style, social and politic views. This results in various conflicts, especially on human resources management.After studying the human resources management problem in the "YKK Company", we found the conflicts are mainly caused by how much you take care the employees, the discrepancy of the modern and traditional Chinese management. Based on the conclusion of this culture case study, we proposed the following cross-cultural management strategies: Let all employees participate, build the enterprise culture based on employee, establish common values about the enterprise; build and improve the formal management system, enforce incentive mechanism, increase the enterprise cohesion; help communication, make cross-cultural training, reduce the conflicts to the maximum degree and replace it with cooperation.