Case Name :      Mabuchi Motor Co. Ltd.

Authors :           Paul W. Beamish, Anthony Goerzen

Source :             Ivey Publishing

Case ID :            98M034

Discipline :        Human Resource Management

Case Length :    14 pages

Solution Sample availability : YES

Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)

A year had elapsed since Mabuchi Motor Co. Ltd. of Japan, the world’s most successful producer of small electric motors, had implemented a new management training program at one of its foreign operations in China. The program had two objectives. First, it was intended to enable the corporation to maintain its strategy of cost minimization by making it possible to reduce Japanese expatriate levels by improving the management skills of local managers in foreign subsidiaries. Second, by overcoming the shortage of qualified Japanese managers, the program would also allow the continued aggressive expansion of production that had become a cornerstone of corporate strategy.