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Eastern versus Western Management

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the 19th century, the Chinese believed themselves and their culture to be superior to any other to which they had been exposed. Europeans had made contact in the 16th  century and found desirable reasons to trade with the Chinese but for their part, the Chinese could see nothing in the Europeans that could be of benefit to them.  That all changed in the mid-19th century as Britain became dictatorial over what products China would accept in payment for the teas and silks  the Western world craved. Britain wanted to flood the country with opium; Chinas objections resulted in the first Opium War. China learned that there was one thing they  could learn from the West: technology and seagoing. The Chinese set out to learn. Parallels in Management  The same scenario was played out in Western management and manufacturing in the last half of the 20th century. Singapore established the first of its five-year  plans for economic development in 1960; the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) listed Singapore as a mature - not developing - economy by the mid-1990s. The US  government sent a team to Japan following World War II as a part of reconstruction with the aim of facilitating Japanese manufacturing (Sytsma, 2001).  In the late 1940s, there was simply nothing that the East had to offer in terms of management that the West possibly could view as being of any use  at all (A Brief History of Industrial Total Quality Management, 1999). Even new approaches to manufacturing and management originating in the West were rejected; organizations were determined to adhere