THINKING TIME!

To what do you attribute the success of JICA?

The success of JICA is found in the excellent characteristics of its work environment that describe it as a well-structured and harmonized workplace. As Frederick Herzberg express in his Two Factors Theory, the good periods are mostly related to content elements of the professional activity, elements from the individual; and the frustration times are frequently related to the context of the work, that what JICA explodes a good work surroundings make the workforce performance more efficient.

Other important fact in the JICA’s success is the outstanding cross-cultural management which the company counts. JICA is an international independent agency that coordinates the Japanese international public assistance and is oriented to help to the economic and social growth in developing countries and promote the international cooperation. As JICA is a global agency, they deal with multicultural environment in their scope of action as in their workplaces and with the experience, they have reached to manage the cultural diversity taking advantages from it and getting a more complex and open-minded view of the organizational behavior. And as the publishing International Management: Cross-Cultural Dimensions written by Richard Mead, the company’s ability to attract, retain and motivate people from different cultures can give it competitive advantage in cost structures, physical structures, creativity, problem solving and adapting to change.

Finally, JICA creates happy relationship between workers and as is shown in the analysis Beyond Pygmalion Effect: The role of Managerial Perception by Inamori Takao & Analoui Farhad, harmonized human relationships work positively towards enhancing organizational performance.