Author : Mami Taniguchi
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 11,65 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Career development
ISBN : 1845449940
Annotation Ten years ago we were publishing much about the economic successes in Japan, their management and HR practices. During the recent economic downturn in Japan we have heard much less. This is a real opportunity to learn what Japanese organizations have been doing to respond to the problems. Some of the papers are real case studies and are based in the automotive, hotel and retail sectors. The authors are based at respected universities in Japan.
Author : Anne Stefanie Aronsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 25,9 MB
Release : 2014-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317686985
Since Japan’s economic recession began in the 1990s, the female workforce has experienced revolutionary changes as greater numbers of women have sought to establish careers. Employment trends indicate that increasingly white-collar professional women are succeeding in breaking through the "glass ceiling", as digital technologies blur and redefine work in spatial, gendered, and ideological terms. This book examines what motivates Japanese women to pursue professional careers in the contemporary neoliberal economy, and how they reconfigure notions of selfhood while doing so. It analyses how professional women contest conventional notions of femininity in contemporary Japan and in turn, negotiate new gender roles and cultural assumptions about women, whilst reorganizing the Japanese workplace and wider socio-economic relationships. Further, the book explores how professional women create new social identities through the mutual conditioning of structure and self, and asks how women come to understand their experiences; how their actions change the gendering of the workforce; and how their lives shape the economic, political, social, and cultural landscapes of this post-industrial nation. Based on extensive fieldwork, Career Women in Contemporary Japan will have broad appeal across a range of disciplines including Japanese culture and society, gender and family studies, women’s studies, anthropology, ethnology and sociology.
Author : John Wharton
Publisher : Vacation Work Publications
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 26,8 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780911285000
This guide looks at living and working in the world's most prosperous country - Japan. constant demand for-native English speakers to teach it. This book explains how English speakers, with no special qualifications or experience, can help meet this demand. The book has details of over 400 English schools and other organizations useful to the job-seeker as well as giving advice on the other ways of earning money that are open to foreigners, negotiating with employers, obtaining the right visas and coping with Japanese culture.
Author : Atsuko Suzuki
Publisher : Trans Pacific Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781876843632
This volume probes the nature and ramifications of changing gender norms in Japan from a multidisciplinary perspective incorporating sociology, social psychology and economics.
Author :
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,10 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Career development
ISBN :
Author : Ken Lawrence
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,61 MB
Release : 2016-06-04
Category :
ISBN : 9780692696972
Dream of Living in Japan? It's time to turn that dream into a reality! This book contains almost everything you need to know in order to move to Japan and earn a living. This is the book I wished had been around back when I was in your shoes. Now after having lived in Japan for 10 years, I've used my knowledge and experience to help those looking to follow their dreams and move here. In This Book You'll Find Info on. . . Coming to Japan as a student Finding a job from either abroad or from within Japan Interview tips and a resume sample Getting a cell phone, a driver's license and opening a bank account Finding both short-term and long-term accommodation Different visa categories and which jobs each one allows you to do All sorts of work opportunities outside of the ESL industry How and why you should learn the language Fundamental concepts of Japanese culture And much more! The book can also help those of you who are already in Japan but are looking to change careers or rent an apartment for the first time. Download Your Copy Today!
Author : John C. & Martha N. Beck
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 1994-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824815295
"This book documents the changes in Japanese employment structures, behavior patterns, and attitudes that indicate that lifetime employment was not 'an indestructible bastion of Japanese cultural heritage.' ... Readable and refreshingly free of jargon." --Asiaweek
Author : Robert J. Ballon
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 38,41 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Corporations, Foreign
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Author : Jon P. Briscoe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,42 MB
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135245649
Companies are becoming more global and international, and commerce and information flow seamlessly across national borders. In addition, modernization, rapid technological change, an increasingly (shared) global culture, and shifting socio-demographic values have created conditions in which career stability is more threatened, while the importance of managing the career well is paramount. But, what do we know about careers in different contexts and how those career experiences vary in different regions and countries of the world? The goal of this book is to develop new understandings of career from the vantage point of those who live in diverse cultures, and who belong to different generations. Careers Around the World explores the very meaning of what a career for individuals is in different countries, cultures, professions and age groups. What does career success mean for people around the world? What are key career transitions, and how are they best managed in different cultures? As those questions have not yet been investigated in the literature of careers across cultures and generations, the authors have taken an approach that led to hearing the answers directly from working people around the globe. This book presents the answers to these questions from each of the seven major cultural regions of the world and the practical implications of these differences for those who manage human resources in organizations that cross national boundaries, as well as those who advise on careers.
Author : Kikuko Tsumura
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 19,29 MB
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 163557692X
"[A] 21st-century response to Herman Melville's 'Bartleby, the Scrivener.'" -NPR “A thought-provoking, drily funny critique of capitalism and the systems of self-worth that are built around it.” -TIME, “Must-Read Books of the Year” A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: it is close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing, and ideally, very little thinking. Her first gig--watching the hidden-camera feed of an author suspected of storing contraband goods--turns out to be inconvenient. (When can she go to the bathroom?) Her next gives way to the supernatural: announcing advertisements for shops that mysteriously disappear. As she moves from job to job--writing trivia for rice cracker packages; punching entry tickets to a purportedly haunted public park--it becomes increasingly apparent that she's not searching for the easiest job at all, but something altogether more meaningful. And when she finally discovers an alternative to the daily grind, it comes with a price. This is the first time Kikuko Tsumura--winner of Japan's most prestigious literary award--has been translated into English. There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job is as witty as it is unsettling--a jolting look at the maladies of late capitalist life through the unique and fascinating lens of modern Japanese culture.
