Organizational development and Staffing

Cultural imbalance can be devastating to an organization as what happened to the Mazda Motor Company plant in Flat Rock Michigan. Even though Mazda thought it had a solution with screening process before hiring its workers. This paper will show why Mazda Motor Company wasn’t successful and possible suggestions on what they could have done to fix the problem.
The Cultural difference between the American work force and the Japanese workforce and how each believes things should get done especially in the 80’s are as clear as day and night. Mazda Motor Corporation was basically run by upper management and made their decisions on a management consensus basis. The Americans were not happy with the idea that the Japanese management would on a daily basis give them a “laundry List” outlining their daily tasks and functions. The American managers didn’t like the idea that they were being kept out of the decision making process and this in effect would filter down the line work...