Working Effectively with Japanese Counterparts: 4. Decision-Making Style

1 hour interactive module on why Japanese organisations take so long to make decisions.

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  1. Assess your own preferences for:
    1. Decision making - do you prefer top down decision making or to find a consensus?
    2. Risk propensity - no risk no reward, or minimize the risk for long term survival?
  2. 9 minute video of a narrated slideshow in English on the processes Japanese organisations use to make decisions with case studies illustrating different cultural preferences for decision making
  3. Country backgrounds for each preference for Japan, Belgium, China, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Philippines, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, UK, USA and Vietnam
  4. Further reading and links
  5. Quiz/test
  6. A course certificate certifying completion and passing of 1 hour of Continuing Professional Development is available

What people have said about this course:

"Really informative and really helpful while working with Japanese colleagues" (Japanese ICT company, India)


Your Instructor


Pernille Rudlin
Pernille Rudlin

Pernille Rudlin was brought up partly in Japan and partly in the UK. She is fluent in spoken and written Japanese, and lived in Japan for 9 years.

She has worked for two of Japan's largest multinationals in a variety of roles from sales to marketing to HR to corporate planning.

Pernille Rudlin holds a B.A.(Hons) from Oxford University in Modern History and Economics and an M.B.A. from INSEAD and she is the author of several books and articles on cross cultural communications and business.

Since starting Japan Intercultural Consulting’s operations in Europe in 2004, Pernille has conducted seminars for Japanese and European companies in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, UAE, the UK and the USA, on Japanese cultural topics, post merger integration and on working with different European cultures.

She is a non-executive director of Japan House London, a Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs initiative and a trustee of the Japan Society of the UK.


Course Curriculum


  Welcome
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  Self assessment 2
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  Video - narrated slideshow
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  Further reading, resources and assignments
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  Quiz/test
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