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Tim Keeley: Facilitator in Japan Intercultural Consulting
by Lonzo Nut ResearcherFounded in 1994, Tokyo Japan Intercultural
Consulting is an international training and consulting firm focusing on
Japanese business and cross-cultural communication. Using their improved
communication and working relationships in multicultural environments helps
clients worldwide to increase their profitability and employee engagement. They
primarily work with Japanese companies and multinational firms who have
Japanese customers. Some of their prominent clients include Honda, Sony, and
Toyota.
They provide incomparable services such as
cultural training seminars, management and interpersonal skills training
seminars, teambuilding programs, human resource management consulting, and
executive coaching services.
Furthermore, Japan Intercultural Consulting
might have a facilitator near you since they have offices and consultants
located around the world. One of their finest facilitators in Japan is Timothy
Dean Keeley.
Tim Keeley is a
multilingual expert on international management and leadership. He enjoys
studying at least one new language each year and loves to explore cultures and
languages. He knows several languages such as Afrikaans, Chinese, Croatian,
Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese,
Korean, Lao, Malay, Nepali, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish,
Thai, and Vietnamese. He is currently working on Catalan, Farsi, Hebrew, Hindi,
Setswana, Xhosa, and Zulu. He also understands all the other Slavic, and Nordic
languages.
Tim was born in the United States, but he has
lived, studied and worked abroad most of his life. He studied one year at
Universidad de los Andes in Colombia at 1976 and six months at a United Nations
research program in Geneva, Switzerland during the process of obtaining his BA
in Business Administration and International Relations at University of
Florida.
After receiving his BA, Tim studied in Japan
and Poland, and then returned to the United States to earn his Masters in
International Business Studies at University of South Carolina. He worked for
Westvaco, an American paper company, as a market development manager at their
Tokyo office for one year while he was completing his master's degree.
When Tim finally earned his master's degree,
he was employed by General Electric (GE) in June 1988 to work as a corporate
marketing manager focusing on Japanese automotive companies. He left GE in
April 1991 to begin his academic career. He is currently a professor of
international management at Kyushu Sangyo University in Fukuoka, Japan. He went
on a sabbatical in 1996 to complete his PhD in International Human Resource
Management and Cross-Cultural Management at Queensland University of Technology
in Brisbane, Australia.
He became an adjunct professor at
Chulalongkorn University in Thailand for 12 years. He teaches negotiation to
graduate students and Asian business management to undergraduate students.
He also taught negotiation in Tulane
University's EMBA program in Shanghai and Taipei for three years. On the other
hand, he taught human resource strategies at Temple University's EMBA program
in Tokyo for also three years. He is often involved in corporate education at
major Japanese and US multinationals, focusing on cross-cultural management,
leadership, and human resource management.
In addition, Tim has published books such as
"International Human Resource Management in Japanese Firms: Their Greatest
Challenge", and "Culture and Human Resource Management in Japanese
Firms: Working for Japanese Companies in Thailand", which is written in Thai.
"International Human Resource Management
in Japanese Firms: Their Greatest Challenge" covers one of the utmost
challenges facing Japanese multinationals as they continue to expand foreign
direct investment: how to integrate local managers into the management process
of overseas subsidiaries, along with the parent companies themselves. In the
majority of Japanese subsidiaries, management control has remained in the hands
of Japanese managers at extremely high cost, but now Japanese firms are
considering integrating local nationals in the management process of their
companies, a process that may produce significant competitive advantage.
"Culture and Human Resource Management
in Japanese Firms: Working for Japanese Companies in Thailand" examines
the significant role of culture in human resource management; Japanese culture,
management and organizational behavior; communication and decision-making in
Japanese companies, characteristics of the development of Japanese MNCs and
FDI; centralism of decision-making, control systems (output-oriented vs.
cultural-oriented), subsidiary autonomy; staffing patterns at Japanese
subsidiaries; results of Tim's study on showing the degree of participation in
decision-making of local managers in Japanese overseas subsidiaries; comparison
and contrast of Japanese and Thai values, assumptions, beliefs and expectations
using the outcome of a study he did in Thailand; and how Japanese and Thai managers
perceive one another.
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