ABSTRACT
The increasing demands of global competition have forced many companies, particularly those in the manufacturing field, to improve their efficiencies very considerably. The multinationals played an important role in the integration of international management. Building an integrating and implementation structure is the route to building the Integrated Company, and remains one of its most valuable assets. It is this structure which enables the Integrated Company to absorb new ideas and changes rapidly and in the most beneficial way; there are no fads which can promote this occurrence. The difference in approach between US and Japanese companies shows the obvious advantages in having management multiplied by human resources resulting in one family having the same interests and destiny, as opposed to management added to personnel, which results in two distinctly different. The Japanese practice of having management represent the workforce rather than the shareholders is not directly transferable to the West.
