The Japanese Employment Practices Revisited
Author : Momtaz Uddin Ahmed
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 26,47 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Labor supply
ISBN :
Author : Momtaz Uddin Ahmed
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 26,47 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Labor supply
ISBN :
Author : Toshiko Tsukaguchi-le Grand
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 12,23 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Age and employment
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Author : Arjan Keizer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 11,36 MB
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135233462
Japan’s employment practices were long considered a cornerstone to its economic success. However, the reversal in economic performance during the 1990s altered the positive perception and inspired major adaptations like the rise in performance-related pay (‘seikashugi’) and non-regular employment. This book presents case-studies of the adaptations in personnel management by major Japanese firms. It highlights the diversity, the stability and the considerations behind the adaptations that are implemented by these firms. Drawing on insights from institutional theory, it shows how factors such as legitimacy and institutional interlock have guaranteed an important continuity in employment practices. It discusses how the adaptations have not actually replaced the existing practices but have been shaped by them and, as a consequence, the result may not be as revolutionary as once expected but is likely to last. Furthermore, it argues that the employment practices remain specifically Japanese and that expectations of convergence have so far proved misplaced. Overall, this book is a valuable contribution to the study of employment issues. It provides an effective framework to analyse the ongoing developments in Japanese employment practices and demonstrates that Japanese developments continue to offer important insights for human resource management and labour market institutionalisation in general.
Author : Harold Oaklander
Publisher :
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 23,84 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Job security
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Author : Akiomi Kitagawa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9811071586
This book reappraises the Japanese employment system, characterized by such practices as the periodic recruiting of new graduates, lifetime employment and seniority-based wages, which were praised as sources of high productivity and flexibility for Japanese firms during the period of high economic growth from the middle of the 1950s until the burst of bubbles in the early 1990s. The prolonged stagnation after the bubble burst induced an increasing number of people to criticize the Japanese employment system as a barrier to the structural changes needed to allow the economy to adjust to the new environment, with detractors suggesting that such a system only serves to protect the vested interests of incumbent workers and firms. By investigating what caused the long stagnation of the Japanese economy, this book examines the validity of this currently dominant view about the Japanese employment system. The rigorous theoretical and empirical analyses presented in this book provide readers with deep insights into the nature of the current Japanese labor market and its macroeconomic impacts.
Author : David Chiavacci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 27,82 MB
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0429884559
During the last 30 years, the Japanese political economy system has experienced significant changes that are usually not well understood or analysed because of their complexity and contradictions. This book provides new analyses and insights on the process of evolving Japanese political economy including Japan’s current economic policy known as Abenomics. The first three chapters looks at evolutions at the corporate level, characterised in recent years by increasing firm heterogeneity. The authors apply theoretically driven analyses to the complex subject of corporate governance, human resource management and corporate reporting by discussing new developments in context of their economic opportunities as well as of their institutional contradictions with continuities in Japanese business practices. The second group of chapters deals with institutional changes and evolving economic reforms on the macro level of political economy. The two chapters focus on the financial system regulation and economic growth policies as two central elements of Japan’s political economy and key drivers in the evolution of its economy. Their analysis allows us to better understand the interplay between reforms and change in consumption credit and to reinterpret Abenomics as a manifestation of ongoing contradictions within the Japanese political economy. The chapters were originally published in a special issue in Japan Forum.
Author : Arjan Keizer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,70 MB
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135233470
Keizer examines changing employment practices in Japan, focusing on the position of the Japanese firm that is confronted with the need to address the changing economic circumstances while also maintaining some fit with the wider set of institutions that govern the Japanese labour market.
Author : Arjan Bernhard Keizer
Publisher :
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,96 MB
Release : 2005
Category :
ISBN : 9789058920874
Author : 高梨昌
Publisher : 日本労働研究機構
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 19,57 MB
Release : 1999-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Describes the Japanese employment system, and identifies potential problems which may provoke changes to the system.
Author : American Chamber of Commerce in Japan. Employment Practices Committee
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Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,8 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Industrial relations
ISBN :