Philippines - 8 Answers
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Believe me there's no difference between Japanese and Filipino's work ethics. Important thing is you need to finished it on deadline with quality. My boss, my staff and 40% of companies staff are Japanese.
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work attitude perhaps. We have a seminar sometime ago entitled " Do we have to become a Japanese to become a conscientious worker?
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There is no comparison of whatsoever. The Japanese are very disciplined and work hard.
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Most of Japanese works on time or as scheduled (in terms of majority). The rest are almost the same.
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I'm American-born, but I have Spanish and Filipino ethnicities. As an American, I can tell you that the Filipino work ethic is frankly a joke. I went to one of the finest schools in Metro Manila and hours went by when nothing would happen in class and there wouldn't even be a teacher there. My dad was a public official there and I worked under him, and I've seen a lot of offices and stuff that really are irreliable. Here's one example. When I was enrolling in that high school, they school (again, a top school) told me I'd need to get documents from the Department of Education there. We had to drive there and it took a couple hours. We got there, and it turned out that I didn't need those documents. In short, we went all that way for absolutely nothing. I was so annoyed. Also with schools there, I heard lots of jokes that you can do well if you bribe the teachers. I later learnt that those weren't jokes. I know one case of a teacher who took bribes; later on, he became the dean at another school where he blackmailed female students into having sex with him or he'd bar them from graduation; he videotaped it, and said that if they told on him, he'd spread the tapes. This is no joke. Below, I left a link to two YouTube pages that made an expose on this horrible teacher. I'm ashamed to know him personally. That awful teacher was arrested; I don't know if the girls were minors, but if they were, this means statutory rape, and until recently, rape was actually punishable by death. He's sure to be put away for the rest of his life. The Bureau of Immigration takes a long time to get work done, like a simple renewal of Visas. It only goes well if you bribe the people to do get the work done quickly. Corruption is a part of life there. Politicians embezzle and take kickbacks. Election cheating is rampant. We used to frequent a restaurant there that was supposed to be pretty good, and I thought the service was spectacularly awful. I'd make orders and still wouldn't get them even after an hour passed. The private sector is also irreliable, although not as much as the government is. There are only a few good schools there that produce reliable workers. The rest just plain suck. You pay people to work for you and they spend more time on breaks than doing any actual work. My dad says that this is because of the Spanish culture there where siestas are common. Filipinos joke that they take a long time to do things because they're on "Filipino time," which really is just a euphamism for incompetence. The "work ethic" that Filipinos like to believe they have is a joke.
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As far as I know the Japanese build a superior product, whether its from work ethic or just plain knowledge, I don't know. Just look around at their houses. Also those multicab things that the filipinos paint and sell for new are all crap. I think filipino women work pretty hard but the men just plain don't give a crap about anything but rooster fighting and tanduay. Some are pretty well accomplished con-artist but other than that, they are also crap.
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Philippines need to know team-working, helping each other, and helping other worker's task. Create harmony of life. If they concentrate in individual life only, poverty won't disappear. God bless Philippines.
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Pinoys are similar to japanese in work ethics. They are willing to produce perfection. But the difference is for Pinoys, someone else has to do the thinking. Create a beautiful product, find the way to do it over and over again, give it to a pinoy, and they will do the same perfect thing for you flawlessly over and over again. But ask them to crate something new and they will come to a full stop. Not that they don't have the brain for it. I think it's the drive they lack, and the habit of doing something that hasn't been done before. Also I think pinoys are too content with a few material posesions, a nice cell phone, iPod, cool pair of shades. That's enough to keep them happy for a long time. One of the best things about pinoys is the fact that they are very happy poeple. I think that's one of their best points, but also because they are so content, they fail to change things, or start new things. That's why we don't see any inovations coming from phils. And it's not because of lack of opprtunity. You have to create that too. Look at the tricycles. How many of them are there in Phils? There is so much room for improvement in everything on a tricycle. But still, every tricycle is a copy of the next one. I'll just have to move to phls and reinvent the tricycle (-: Me and my wife, who is pinoy, run a business in the Middle East. All of our employees are pinoys. We couldn't be happier with our employees.
