Business government relations are given below:
Japan has a mixed economy. The hall-mark of the Japanese economy is the special and unique way in which Japanese government has guided the economy’s development and the interaction between government and enterprise.
In Japan, managers in the public and private sector have a vision of where the country fits in the global system; and what this means for developing strategies at the societal, industrial, and corporate levels. Japanese planners put more emphasis on a process rather than on a plan.
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Their vision is forward-looking within the framework of interpreting the past by using a plan. The planning process uses vast amounts of statistical information. This helps in increasing analytical depth and in widening alternative choices.
Japanese personnel practices include transferring young officials from central government to rural posts or in some cases, to private sector companies. This helps elite officials in learning the network of contacts relevant to their governmental role and fill up gaps in information between bureaucracy and the industrial world.
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Similarly, retiring bureaucrats offer their services as advisors or consultants to private sector where their information, contacts and experience are used in decision-making.
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The Indian bureaucratic system prevalent at the moment does not allow such a thing due to its rigid rules and regulations. However, such an experiment is worth introducing in the context of education wherein highly qualified teachers from urban areas are transferred to rural areas where there is a scarcity of space, equipment, books and other facilities and where needs of the local community are different.
This would help them to be in touch with ground realities of education. Similarly, transferring teachers from rural areas to urban areas would also be an enriching and enlightening experience for them.
Though Indian educational system is being run by both public and private enterprise, we need to make efforts so that principals of schools and colleges develop a mission and a vision which fit the national goals of development. Besides, we are very good at planning. We need to put equal and perhaps more emphasis on implementing plans.
Moreover, the percentage of GNP devoted to education in Japan is much higher compared to that in India. This needs to be gradually increased so that more money is available for developmental purposes rather than maintenance functions.
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A striking similarity between Japanese and Indian economy is the adoption of five-year industrial plans. As far as education is concerned, India needs to pay attention to implementing, monitoring and evaluating her five-year educational plans. This also needs to be done at the institutional level.