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The movie Gung Ho portrays the takeover of an American car plant by a Japanese company . The Japanese management team comes to the small town of Hadleyville to manage this American company , and cultural crash becomes the main issue when the cultural background differs entirely between the Japanese management and the American workers

The most critical communication problem presented in the film is intercultural collaboration and the misunderstanding which results from changes in the company . The Japanese company takes advantage of the desperate work force and institutes many changes . The manager insists

on calisthenics exercises every morning , whilst trying to teach the workers that it is the company benefit takes precedence over that of the individual worker . They attempt to change the workplace environment and even neglect rights which American workers have learned to expect . They are denied the right to a union , their wages are reduced and they are moved between various tasks so as to learn every job , and are held to seemingly impossible standards of efficiency and quality . The film also presents the poor work ethic and lackadaisical attitude towards quality control that characterizes American factories of the time . In contrast the Japanese staff display a completely different attitude : They have high standards of efficiency and quality control , maintain a highly serious demeanor towards all things even `playful ' activities like baseball , forbid entertainment in the work place , consume instant food to save time , establish strong boundaries between working relationships and informal ones and (to the puzzlement of...