Presenter: John F. McNulty (People Focus Consulting Executive Director), Koichi Yoshimura (People Focus Consulting Senior Consultant)
Schedule: 30th August(Sat) 17:00-18:30
Venue: Room No.D301
Summary of presentation
It goes without saying globalization is a high-priority issue for Japanese companies.
Specifically, the lack of global human resources is blocking the way for globalization. Therefore, many companies are starting to expand their global resources by frantically recruiting foreigners and training to develop global human resources.
However, companies are solely focused on human resource development and lack the perspective of “developing a global organization.” Consequently, foreign workers are quitting or unable to excel, and the training programs executed are ineffective.
Global organizational development is “to construct healthy and strong organization in a global context.” Unfortunately, there are many organizations without health or strength, even the Japanese companies with long experience in overseas operation.
Organization development, necessary in a healthy and strong organization, is not sufficiently conducted at domestic organizations. Therefore, if one attempts to globalize and make a global organization without working domestically first, adverse effects come back bigger, having effects on a larger scale. It does not mean organization development practices and efforts differ in where they are executed in principle; however, the complexity of CSP (cultural/structural/physical) makes the global setting more difficult.
Profile
John F. McNulty
Mr. McNulty is a bilingual (Japanese and English) trainer & consultant specializing in organizational change & development, management training, coaching, facilitation, and global business skill development.
Mr. McNulty studied International Business at The Ohio State University and International Management at the University of California San Diego, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies.
Mr. McNulty has been involved with Japanese language, culture and business for over 18 years, including over eight years’ residence in Japan. He spent three years in the Saitama Prefectural Government as a special government employee coordinating several of their international programs. In addition, Mr. McNulty has worked in India as an investment consultant for a La Jolla, California venture capital firm and also worked for a printing technology company in San Diego, California where he was in charge of the Japanese and French markets. In his role as Director of International for Everstream, an internet start-up company, Mr. McNulty developed strategic business relationships with clients such as the Times of India, Yomiuri Shimbun in Japan, the Jerusalem Post and the Financial Times. Prior to coming to People Focus Consulting, Mr. McNulty worked as an independent contractor for a cross-cultural management and training consultancy that specializes in the Pacific.
As a trainer and consultant with a broad international professional background, Mr. McNulty provides clients a unique perspective for developing their human resources, international management skills and strategies.
Koichi Yoshimura
Graduating from the Commerce Department of Meiji University, Mr. Yoshimura started his career at Uchida Yoko Co., Ltd. Entering the office engineering department, responsible for direct sales and marketing, he progressed through the ranks of department head and President later to assume the position of Chairman. Here, he concentrated his energy on new business development, establishing new industries and further increasing orders from existing clientele.
Mr. Yoshimura later moved on to work for an outsourcing venture company where, as a marketing professional, he was responsible for business development and the nurturing of junior staff members.
From December 2000, he worked at a marketing research consulting company where he took on the task of nurturing and further developing leading companies, working vigorously through all stages of development from work environment studies to the consulting, coordinating and instructing of training programs.
Continuing the work above, Mr. Yoshimura concentrated the remainder of his energy participating in the establishment of the NPO, Facilitators Association of Japan, where he presided as Director until December 2004.
From 2004, as part of the People Focus Consulting Team, his skill in the art of facilitation has been channeled to supporting projects for leading manufacturers, SI Vendors and various service providers.