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Your Check List

Alternatively, or in addition to filling in the below form, please send Tom Nevins a confidential email to tom.nevins@tmt-aba.com Or a private phone call to +81 (0) 3-6427-7055. Thank you very much!
Twenty Question Check List
for
Expatriate Executives in Japan

Toward taking inventory and assessing our management practices, reward systems, staffing problems and corporate health in Japan
1. Is there enough performance pay at your firm?
- Yes
- No
- Not Sure
2. Are you suffering from turn-over, losing your best people?
- Yes
- No
- Not Sure
3. Is there too much overtime incurred at your firm and are you missing out on effective control mechanisms?
- Yes
- No
- Not Sure
4. Do you perceive that your managers do not assert the independent judgment and leadership they should?
- Yes
- No
- Not Sure
5. Do supervisors lack the tools to manage performance/contribution problems in their units?
- Yes
- No
- Not Sure
6. Are there too many people not contributing enough yet at pay levels that seem too high?
- Yes
- No
- Not Sure
7. Do you have some valuable people that you fear may leave because they are not being fully utilized, stretched and given a chance to grow or are not being paid enough?
- Yes
- No
- Not Sure
8. Is it difficult to attract good people from the outside?
- Yes
- No
- Not Sure
9. Do you seem to be over-staffed with the wrong people?
- Yes
- No
- Not Sure
10. Do you doubt that you are taking advantages of the many strengths and flexibilities characteristic of good Japanese management?
- Yes
- No
- Not Sure
11. Do you have a labor union or groups of managers and employees who are more concerned with protecting mediocrity or self-interest rather than building a dynamic and vibrant corporate culture?
- Yes
- No
- Not Sure
12. Does it appear you lack flexibility at your firm to restructure jobs and freely transfer managers?
- Yes
- No
- Not Sure
13. Do you believe personnel appraisals could be carried out more effectively and should be a more important part of career development?
- Yes
- No
- Not Sure
14. Does it seem difficult to effectively take out poor performers and problem employees cheaply, safely and without litigation?
- Yes
- No
- Not Sure
15. Should probationary periods be extended and really effectively used to weed out potential problem employees?
- Yes
- No
- Not Sure
16. As top expatriate management, are you left out of too much, perhaps deliberately isolated and not always able to influence decisions and corporate vision the way you would like to?
- Yes
- No
- Not Sure
17. Have you been cajoled into a position where you have relinquished many of your management responsibilities and let your instincts be numbed, reluctantly accepting many of the myths and stereotypes about the Gaijin manager’s appropriate role? Have you avoided directly fixing things that you feel should be run better?
- Yes
- No
- Not Sure
18. Should your supervisors and managers know more about how to counsel subordinates and conduct constructive joint appraisal sessions?
- Yes
- No
- Not Sure
19. Are you one of the many foreign companies that has its long-term disability policies set up wrong, precluding you from cashing in on your expensive government insurance premiums?
- Yes
- No
- Not Sure
20. Have you never been given or asked for and read a copy of your company’s Rules of Employment, Salary and Retirement Regulation, and performance appraisal systems?
- Yes
- No
- Not Sure
TMT’s consulting service will significantly contribute toward:
1. Providing your managers and supervisors with the tools to better manage human resources
2. Assuring that correct strategic personnel policies are followed
3. Bringing bottom line value through savings/cost efficiencies
4. Protecting your company’s legal position
5. Giving you useful material for human resource supervisor training programs
6. Reshaping and redirecting your organization for increased sales and profits
7. Improving employee morale and building better teamwork
8. Increasing productivity getting your managers and staff to focus on results (not activities) and performance targets
More on how we help you -- the Expatriate Executive on the firing line in Japan

TMT will provide you the managerial tools and rganizational mechanism to overcome the challenges you face in managing employees and your firm in Japan
1. Your perspective (and even beliefs) will change about what can and cannot be done.
2. Many of the frustrations and difficulties of managing people in this environment will melt away.
3. The Personnel Management Manual will provide answers at your fingertips to complex or unique situations common to expatriate managers in Japan. With clear vision and confidence your job will be easier and you will be more effective in carrying out your responsibilities and taking charge in Japan.
This 20 Question Check list has been filled out by:
Name*
First Last
Title
Title
Company
Company
Phone*
Fax No.
Website
Email*
Direct owned
J.V.’s
Five-year headcount projection
Total current headcount
Number of expatriates
Have you read your company’s Rules of Employment, Salary and Retirement Regulations? What did you think of them?
Main problems faced
How do you suggest we proceed to help you?
Have you used TMT in the past? In what areas? How was your experience?
Any other requests or comments, or things we should know?
Thank you very much for taking the time to work on this. If TMT/Tom Nevins feel that we can meet your needs more effectively than any other service provider, and if our current client commitments allow us to place sufficient resources on your project, and do a great timely job for you, we will be in touch. Succeeding on important things together requires a strong desire and commitment to make critical and sometimes seemingly difficult changes. In that spirit, please do not hesitate to also send, or instead of the above form, send Tom Nevins a confidential email to tom.nevins@tmt-aba.com Or a private phone call to +81 (0) 3-6427-7055. Thank you very much!