The biggest difference is probable a way of organizing meetings.
The first of all, the purpose and goal should be clear. Sometimes I get mails about a meeting that those aren’t written. In the most terrible case, I don’t to know whether I should attend or not. Regarding a meeting space, all people who receive the agenda from the organized are not impossible to come there, because the space has a small table with 5 chairs. On day a coworker David form North Carolina sent me a funny email. It said “Is it a chain mail?” It isn’t incredible for him that over 20 received people concerned with the meeting. If you knew a fact that many people save the mail without reading it, you would be amazed. Once I asked one of them the reason, he said that it was written in English.
Second, each of attendee has a role in a global meeting. Each role is different. In other words, everyone represents a profit in their business. To realize their objective, they discuss and discuss. In Japanese meeting, you might see some people who have kept silence from the start to the end. It seems as if monks are training. They are never interested in the meeting, because the purpose is to share the information among attendees. Even though a children is invited the meeting, he or she has a right of showing an opinion.
Finally, discussion in a global meeting is to get better choice. Younger Japanese are likely to hesitate to discussion. Expressing an own view is considered as an immoral manner in old Japanese society. Additionally, some of old Japanese .the result is changed by discussion. They think that the progress should be scheduled carefully and the result should be already defined before starting the discussion.
If you are planning to work for Japanese domestic company, you have to be patient. These days a lot of the domestic companies impose TOEIC score for a promoting or define English as an official language. However, even if they spoke in English, they don’t always follow the global meeting manner.
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