Author: Mari Sako Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135097070 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 366
Book Description
Japanese Management and Labour in Transition explores the changing face of Japanese industrial relations. Part one of the work outlines recent trends in Japanese labour markets, labour law and corporate strategy, and explores the responses of both management and labour to pressure posed by these trends. Part two analyses the interaction between the state, management and labour, considering both the macro and the micro levels. This compilation of up-to-date research by leading Japanese scholars challenges the traditional view of 'lifetime' employment and focuses on the growing economic pressures that Japanese management and labour currently face.
Author: Arthur M. Whitehill Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000603032 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 242
Book Description
First published in 1991, Japanese Management succeeds in filling a major gap by providing a thorough account of the evolution and day-to-day practices of management within the Japanese firm. The 14 chapters not only build the historical framework and modern cultural, economic, and social setting, but also effectively deal with the process of management. The final two chapters address some future challenges facing Japanese firms as they operate in the global business environment. This comprehensive book is a must read for students of business management.
Author: Mari Sako Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand ISBN: 0199268169 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 304
Book Description
This in-depth exploration of the organizational strategies of Japanese corporate management and union leaders considers the issue of the 'organizational boundaries' which arise from the restructuring following mergers, acquisitions, outsourcing and spin-offs.
Author: David W. Edgington Publisher: UBC Press ISBN: 9780774808996 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 292
Book Description
Japan today is at an important historical juncture. Buffeted in recent years by rapid economic, social, and political change, yet still very much steeped in custom and history, the nation has become an amalgam of the traditional and the modern. As a result, the country has become increasingly difficult to categorize: How are we to represent today's Japan effectively, and fairly predict its future? This critical, multi-disciplinary collection explores the convergence of past and future in contemporary Japan. Contributors comment on a wide range of economic, socio-cultural, and political trends--such as the mobilization of Japanese labour, the burgeoning Ainu identity movement, and the shifting place of the modern woman--and conclude that despite the rapid changes, many of the traditional facets of Japanese society have remained intact, institutional change, they assert, is unlikely to occur quickly, and Japan must find alternate ways to adjust to twenty-first-century pressures of global competition and interdependence. A pleasure to read, this broad volume will be welcomed by upper-level undergraduates, graduates, and specialists in Japanese studies.
Author: Shigeyoshi Tokunaga Publisher: ISBN: Category : Industrial relations Languages : en Pages : 330
Book Description
Conference report on post-1973 labour relations in Japan and Germany, Federal Republic - covers labour market structure, personnel management, trade unions, works councils, technological change, rationalization, labour market segmentation and structural change; notes a trend towards conservatism among workers' organizations, and management initiative in joint consultation. References and list of participants. Conference held in Sendai (Japan) 1982 Sep 27 to Oct 1.
Author: H. Meyer-Ohle Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230274242 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 214
Book Description
Exploring the changes in Japanese workplaces such as restructuring, incentive principles and the increasing use of contingent workers from the perspective of employees, this title provides new insights into the mindsets of the workers by contrasting survey and theoretical sources with excerpts from blogs published by Japanese people.
Author: T. Kurihara Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230101135 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 520
Book Description
This book is an ethnography of a Japanese white-collar workplace in Osaka carried out during the late 1990s. It explores the relevance of social models to the analysis of social relations and women's status in the workplace by examining concepts of time, ritual, and space via the theory of practice.
Author: Sandra E. Gleason Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute ISBN: 0880992891 Category : Contracting out Languages : en Pages : 360
Book Description
This book provides an overview of the facts and issues of nonstandard employment in the countries where this labor market phenomenon has been most studied: the United States, Japan, and the European Union
Author: D. Kelly Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1403905304 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
Dominic Kelly has written a fascinating study of Japanese policies designed to lead to the reconstruction of East Asia. He presents a detailed picture of Japanese activity in East Asia in the areas of production, finance, security and 'knowledge', and maps out the historical context upon which this activity rests. In doing so, Kelly sheds light on the increasingly powerful but imperfectly understood phenomenon of regionalism. He goes on to identity the major fault line situated beneath both theoretical accounts of Japanese regionalism and 'real world' predictions of its success or failure.
Author: Mari Sako
Author: Arthur M. Whitehill
Author: Mari Sako
Author: David W. Edgington
Author: Shigeyoshi Tokunaga
Author: H. Meyer-Ohle
Author: T. Kurihara
Author: Sandra E. Gleason
Author: D. Kelly
Author: Haruo Shimada