Which of the following statements is true about the business implicati

QUESTION

Which of the following statements is true about the business implications of Japanese society?

A. The determination of social status of an individual is independent of the standing of the group to which he or she belongs.

B. It is difficult to find self-managing work teams within Japanese organizations.

C. It is more successful at pioneering radically new products and new ways of doing business than the United States.

D. There is a low degree of movement from company to company among managers and workers.

E. The managers and workers lack company-specific knowledge, experience, and a network of interpersonal business contacts.

ANSWER

D
The primacy of the value of group identification also discourages managers and workers from moving from company to company. Lifetime employment in a particular company was long the norm in certain sectors of the Japanese economy.