Question 4 - A challenging joint venture (25 marks) You are a Japanese HR manager facing the most difficult challenges in your career. You are trying to help a joint venture succeed between a UK Software company, and a Japanese Engineering firm. The Software company has been extremely innovative for years. Cameron and Quin would have called it an Adhocracy in their competing Values Model. The Software company were the ones who first spotted the potential to revolutionise the usefulness of one of the Engineering company's products with updated software and proposed working together in partnership. But the Engineering company team are more of a Clan. They are long term thinkers, developing people for the future, investing without demanding immediate returns. They are doing that now taking on some staff in the UK to supplement their team with local talent prepared to work there long term. You have to select them and find ways to get staff from both parent companies to work together within the joint venture. Before you can do that, you have some learning to do... 4a. In what ways are UK and Japanese cultures and attitudes to leadership similar, and different? What aspects do you think might be challenging for the employees of the two companies when working in joint teams? (10 marks) 4b. Compare and contrast Clan and an Adhocracy organisational cultures. In what ways will they find it easy and difficult to work together? (5 marks) 4c. You have not taken on new staff in the UK before. Suggest some legal requirements in the UK you need to make sure you learn about, and some techniques to help ensure you don't break these during selection. Explain a good process and two styles of questions for running the interview. (5 marks) 4d. What leadership theory might you get your staff to concentrate on using to lead this change? Support your choice by explaining briefly why it is effective for periods of Change