MALAYSIAN MANAGEMENT STYLES

By RHODA HABTEMICHAEL

General Characteristics of Agricultural, Industrial, and Information Age Management Styles

• Agricultural Age Management Styles: Riged social class divsions ment management by dominant social class

• Industrial Age Management Styles: hierarchical mangement models in industrialized Western countries

• Information Age Management Styles: network-based, participatory management; consensus/tem building; quality circles and total quality mangement; japanese mangement models; and elimination of some middle management positions

Information/Data on Malaysian Management Styles : Malaysia seems to have an information age mangement style. Though there is no clearly diffined style, from what I have understood it seems like the American management system. Owner-manager-middle mangement positions-workers

Conclusions on Malaysia (Whether Primarily Agricultural, Industrial, or Information Age Re: Its Management Styles) : Malaysia has a mixture of the three ages and they encourage team work for a higher productivity may be this is why the are where they are today

Additional Online Sources on Malaysia Management Styles

• Malaysia The Rising Star