日本与西方知识观管理观之比较

On Comparison Between Japanese & Western Knowledge & Management Viewpoint

与西方人对知识的看法相比 ,日本人有其独到的见解。在“显性知识”和“隐性知识”之间 ,日本人更注重后者 ,认为知识不仅包括“技术”的一面 ,还包含如信念、悟性、理想、价值、情感和心理因素等认知范畴。正因如此 ,日本人在组织管理上 ,更强调意会知识 (即直觉、经验、想象等 )的挖掘 ,强调上层和中层管理人员与一线员工的协作与沟通 ,并特别突出中层管理人员的作用。

Comparing with Western knowledge viewpoint, Japanese is different. Between “explicit knowledge” and “tacit knowledge”, Japanese prefer the latter. They maintain that knowledge contains not only technological dimension, but cognitive dimension, such as beliefs, perceptions, ideals, values, emotions and mental models etc. So Japanese stress “knowledge creation”, cooperation of the front line employees and middle level managers in organization management, especially they devote much attention to middle level managers. We could use this as an important reference.