Provided by James R. Martin, Ph.D., CMA
Professor Emeritus, University of South Florida
Japanese Main Page | Japanese Discussion Questions
| Graduate MA Course
1. Which of the concepts below is (are) associated more with Japanese management than with American management?
c. price determines costs, as opposed to costs determines
price.
2. Which of the following management practices is (are) associated more with American managers than with Japanese managers?
c. Base decisions on constrained optimization
techniques.
3. Which of the following characteristics is (are) associated more with Japanese workers than with American workers?
d. a and b.
4. Which type of manager, Japanese or American is associated with the practice of "inspecting quality in"?
b. American.
5. Human resource leverage and technological leverage refer to the practices of
a. hiring trained workers and purchasing the available
technology from other companies.
6. Which of the following are market driven as opposed to engineer driven?
c. Target costs.
7. Which of the following is or are associated more with Japanese management practices than with American management practices?
e. all of the above.
8. Which practice, or practices below is or are associated more with American managers than with Japanese managers?
d. a and b.
9. Japanese managers tend to use which of the following?
a. Target costing.
10. Japanese, as opposed to American incentive systems tend to place more emphasis on
d. a. and b.
11. Japanese unions, as opposed to American unions tend to
b. have fewer job classifications.
12. Which control technique, or techniques, is or are associated more with the Japanese than with American companies?
c. statistical process control.
13. Which of the following concepts is derived from the demand side rather than the supply side of the market?
b. target costing.
14. American managers, as opposed to Japanese managers, tend to place more emphasis on
a. individual performance.
15. Japanese managers would tend to use which of the following as an investment strategy?
c. Portfolio.
16. Which of the concepts or practices below is, or are, associated more with the Japanese than with American companies?
e. all of the above.
17. Which of the combinations of practices below is consistent with Toyota’s costing concepts?
c. Cost targets set monthly, emphasis is on meeting targets,
variance analysis is based on target versus for actual for targeted cost reductions.
18. Which of the combinations of practices below is consistent with traditional American costing concepts?
a. Cost standards set annually, emphasis is on meeting
standards, variance analysis is based on standard versus actual for cost control.
19. Which of the following management practices is (are) associated more with Japanese managers than with American managers?
e. All of the above.
20. Voting is used in organizations to arrive at a solution or course of action. This is consistent with which of the following perspectives or concepts?
e. None of the above.
Japanese Management MC Questions