Japanese expatriates commented that Thais rarely make progress reports. In Japanese culture, if progress is on track and things running smoothly, you also inform the team. Thais never make a progress report regardless of whether things are going well or there are problems. This lack of information makes the Japanese expatriates nervous; so their strategy to deal with this difference is to continually monitor progress from Thais and to set up meetings to share work progress. The meetings and reports can be divided into short, medium, and long term.
E. Short Term Orientation VS Long Term Orientation
There is a general perception that the Japanese take a long term view. Thais is also regarded as long term by less than Japanese. But during day to day work, Japanese view that Thais tend to concentrate only on what is currently happening. This would reflect a shorter term view of work.
The misconception of Thais being “good on hand problem solver”