Managing Japanese Workers
Author: Tadashi Hanami
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 126
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Author: Tadashi Hanami
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 126
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Keitarō Hasegawa
Publisher: Kodansha
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780870115721
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyzes the special features of Japanese management methods-equality between blue-collar and white-collar workers, the impact of unions, and the life-time employment system.
Author: Andy Danford
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-02
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 131772772X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyzing the impact of Japanese-style management techniques such as lean production, teamworking, kaizen (continuous improvement) and business unionism of factory workers, this text investigates different facets of the organization of the labour process and employment relations within 15 Japanese transplants in South Wales. There is an emphasis on the impact of the restructuring of workplace relations on both individual groups of workers and collective labour organization. The text provides an insight into the reality of factory life in the 1990s by incorporating descriptions of shop-floor observations, quantitive data and revealing comments from different grades of shop-floor workers, office workers and management.
Author: 駒井洋
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 148
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: K Fukuda
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-10-18
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 113691451X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJapan’s rapid rise to economic super-power status has led to a worldwide interest in and attempts to emulate Japanese management practices. This book, based on extensive original research, considers both the opportunities and problems of the transfer of Japanese management practices to other areas in East Asia. It remains one of the few books of its kind, as other books on Japanese management have concentrated on its transferability to the West. Because many Japanese subsidiaries have been established longer in East Asia than elsewhere and the local work forces have become accustomed to Japanese management practices when transferred elsewhere have become apparent in a way they have not where Japanese management practices are much newer.
Author: Alice Sbrzesny
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Published: 2006-09-15
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 3638545393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 2,0, University of Tampere, course: Advanced Studies for Doing Business in Asia, language: English, abstract: Japan is known for its successful companies. One might only think about the automobile manufacturer Toyota. To perform successful, a company has to maximise profit. In contrast to Western companies, in Japanese companies, profit is maximised by increasing sales and maximising volume by increasing productivity and efficiency. The question that arises is how could the Japanese increase productivity that much? One possible answer is the Japanese management approach. For some time now, the characteristics of Japanese management style have been a popular issue, mainly in Europe and in the United States. Have the qualities and values of society and of individual been a reason for Japanese success? Such issues as the business group, the seniority wage system, the lifetime employment system and the periodic recruitment of new graduates have been examined in diverse ways. A look at the actual operations of Japanese enterprises in Europe and the United States indicates that, there are changes going on concerning Japanese management practices. Japan is an island with almost total ethnic homogeneity, having been unaffected by Western influences for long time. Modern management practices are said to be rooted in the cultural and geographical traditions of the country. Emphasis in recent analysis has been put on how the Japanese management style has arisen and evolved historically, rather than on its typological characteristics. This paper makes the attempt to examine Japanese management characteristics with regard to historical influences, Japanese culture, Japanese social system as well as possible future needs. Cultural and historical heritage will be presented first followed by a summary of Japanese values on which society is based. After that, management practices with regard to traditional and modern approaches are presented. Meanwhile, changes in management practices are examined.
Author: James R. Lincoln
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1992-06-04
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780521428668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andrew Gordon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-02-07
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 0429966687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this groundbreaking volume, one of Japan's most insightful contemporary labor analysts assesses the ?light and shadow? of Japanese-style management, explaining why Japanese employees have stood apart from workers in other industrialized countries. Kumazawa brings to life the intense combination of competition and community within Japanese workplaces. He highlights dilemmas facing Japanese labor on the shop floor and in the labor movement. His discussion ranges from the role of women to issues of quality control and self-management. Highly critical of the hierarchical and undemocratic nature of Japanese industry, he offers a sympathetic view from the inside of the difficulties of surviving in the workplaces of contemporary Japan.
Author: Kunio Odaka
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780674898165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMonograph on the trend towards workers participation in Japan - examines changes in management attitudes and employees attitudes in response to technological change, and includes survey data on workers' motivation, job satisfaction and leisure activities, etc. Bibliography pp. 215 to 221 and statistical tables.
Author: Andrew Gordon
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2001-11-15
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780674037816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAndrew Gordon goes to the core of the Japanese enterprise system, the workplace, and reveals a complex history of contest and confrontation. The Japanese model produced a dynamic economy which owed as much to coercion as to happy consensus. Managerial hegemony was achieved only after a bitter struggle that undermined the democratic potential of postwar society. The book draws on examples across Japanese industry, but focuses in depth on iron and steel. This industry was at the center of the country's economic recovery and high-speed growth, a primary site of corporate managerial strategy and important labor union initiatives. Beginning with the Occupation reforms and their influence on the workplace, Gordon traces worker activism and protest in the 1950s and '60s, and how they gave way to management victory in the 1960s and '70s. He shows how working people had to compromise institutions of self-determination in pursuit of economic affluence. He illuminates the Japanese system with frequent references to other capitalist nations whose workplaces assumed very different shape, and looks to Japan's future, rebutting hasty predictions that Japanese industrial relations are about to be dramatically transformed in the American free-market image. Gordon argues that it is more likely that Japan will only modestly adjust the status quo that emerged through the turbulent postwar decades he chronicles here.