Master

Manager

Name:Tasfia Meher
Course title: HUM 4101
Course Instructor : Md Abdullah Al Mamun
Date: 05 September, 2022
 Master Manager 
Management requires skills for one to attain organizational goals. The master
manager has a crucial responsibility over the activities and must perform them. He
must overcome challenges and lead the organization into progressive growth to
become successful.
There are three challenges that a manager has to overcome to become a master
manager. These are:
1. Meeting the organizational goal
2. Grooming the human resources
3. Maintaining high performance
A master manager can overcome challenges and become accomplish his tasks.
They can provide leadership, use downsizing and middle-level managers as well as
train and motivate the employees. The manager can employ strategy at work to
face difficulties. Since the environment and employees are changing the master
manager can be flexible and change strategy to overcome the challenges.

Kazuo Inamori - A tale of a Master Manager 

Kazuo Inamori, KBE was a Japanese philanthropist, entrepreneur, and the founder
of Kyocera and KDDI. He was the chairman of Japan Airlines. Kazuo Inamori was
born on 30 January 1932 in Kagoshima, on the island of Kyushu in Japan. Inamori
graduated from Kagoshima University in 1955 with a Bachelor of Science degree
in applied chemistry. He became a researcher at Shofu Industries in Kyoto, Japan.
There he was important in several developments, developing forsterite as an
insulator for high-frequency radio waves; using forsterite for the mass production
of high-frequency insulator components; developing an electric tunnel kiln for use
in sintering.

In 1959, Inamori and several other colleagues established Kyoto Ceramic, later
known as Kyocera. The company manufactured high-frequency insulator
components for television picture tubes for Matsushita Electronics Industries (later
Panasonic) in Japan, and silicon transistor headers for Fairchild Semiconductor and
ceramic substrates for IBM in the United States. At Kyocera, Inamori implemented
his very own Amoeba Management system.
Amoebas are in general groups of 5 to 50 people, composed of personnel in a
company, with a clearly defined purpose of making a profit for itself. Profit is
measured using this simple formula: ("Profit per hour = (sales - cost) ÷ working
hours"). It is calculated in each amoeba with the goal being to identify and
maximize profitability per hour.

Amoeba profit is usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis. The aim is to

target plans into action and create a system of metrics that can lead to increased
efficient working hours. Amoebas keep changing from time to time, and the roles
inside an amoeba are changed as well.

After the deregulation of Japan’s telecommunications industry in 1984, Inamori

founded Daini Denden (DDI) Corporation. DDI later entered the cell phone
business, merging with KDD (Kokusai Denshin Denwa) and IDO (Nippon Idou
Tsushin Corporation) in 2000 to form KDDI, which has grown to become Japan's
second-largest telecommunication services provider.

At the age of 77, Inamori became the CEO of Japan Airlines when it entered
bankruptcy protection on 19 January 2010, and led the air carrier through its
restructuring, eventually allowing the company to re-list on the Tokyo Stock
Exchange in November 2012. Inamori has been an International Advisor of
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Inamori, who was a Zen Buddhist priest, established the Inamori Foundation in
1984, which awards the annual Kyoto Prize to honor those who have made
"extraordinary contributions to science, civilization, and the spirituality of
humankind."

In 2005, the Alfred University School of Engineering (Alfred, NY) was renamed in
honor of Dr. Inamori. He endowed the Inamori Scholarship fund in 1996, doubling
the fund in 2004. In Dr. Inamori's honor, the Kyocera Corporation has given a $10
million endowment to enable the expansion of the Kazuo Inamori School of
Engineering's research faculty.

In 2005, Inamori helped to establish the Inamori International Center for Ethics
and Excellence at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio), with a gift
of $10 million. The center awards the Inamori Ethics Prize to those who serve as
examples of ethical leadership and make significant contributions to the betterment
of global society.

Inamori was awarded many awards including  

  Honorary Doctorate from Kagoshima University, 1999
 Honorary Doctor of Science from Alfred University, 1988
 Honorary Doctorate from Kyushu University, 2006
 Honorary Doctorate from Kyoto Institute of Technology, 2010
 International Citizens Award, Japan America Society of Southern California,
2011
 Honorary Doctorate of Science, San Diego State University
 Othmer Gold Medal, 2011
 Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 2019

His name wasn’t widely known in the West, but in Japanese and Chinese business
circles, he was revered as a practical philosopher and apostle of Asian-style
management. His books sold millions of copies in the two countries. In his long
career, Mr. Inamori also helped create a powerful competitor to Japan’s long-
standing telephone monopoly.

For Kazuo Inamori, a company wasn’t just a place to work and earn a salary. It
was more like a family, and managers were responsible for their teams’ spiritual
health and happiness, he thought.

In my opinion, Kazuo Inamori possessed all the qualities a master manager should
possess. Under his management, his company achieved all its organizational goals.
Not only that, in 2010 he saved Japan Airlines from going bankrupt and brought
the company back to competition. He overcame all the challenges life threw at him
with flying colors. He saw his employees as a family to be taken care of for life.
For Kazuo Inamori, a company wasn’t just a place to work and earn a salary. It
was more like a family, and managers were responsible for their teams’ spiritual
health and happiness, he thought. This is why I chose Kazuo Inamori as a master
manager and my idol.