Working for the Japanese: Myths and Realities
Working for the Japanese: Myths and Realities

Author: Stephanie Jones

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1991-03-06

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1349116696

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Over 100 British executives have contributed to this study of what it's really like to work for a Japanese company. Media beliefs about the Japanese in Britain suggest that they are obsessed with long-term planning and concensus decision-making, that all the bosses are Japanese, that all decisions are made in Tokyo, and that uniforms and exercises are compulsory. Dr Jones' findings question these 'myths' arguing that the Japanese have shown a remarkable adaptability to local conditions.

Unmasking Japan
Unmasking Japan

Author: David Ricky Matsumoto

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780804727198

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The last twenty years has seen a growth of interest and fascination with the Japanese, and the emergence of Japan as a world economic power has stimulated many works that have attempted to understand Japanese culture. The focus of this book is not on Japanese culture or society per se: rather, it is on how Japanese culture and society structure, shape, and mold the emotions of the Japanese people. All cultures shape and mold emotions, but the degree to which the Japanese culture shapes emotion has led to several misunderstandings about the emotional life of the Japanese, which this book attempts to correct. Describing the findings of over two decades of research, this book presents the Japanese as human beings with real feelings and emotions rather than as mindless pawns caught in the web of their own culture. In the process, it unmasks many myths that have grown around the subject and reveals important similarities as well as differences between the emotional life of the Japanese and that of people of other cultures.

Japan
Japan

Author: Khoon Choy Lee

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9789810218652

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This work, written by an ex-Ambassador to Japan, is a first-hand account and observation of the various aspects of Japanese society ? political, historical, social and economic. It introduces themes such as Japanese religions and the political system, as well as describing and explaining many of the country's rich traditions. The author's personal experiences of Japan are interspersed with historical tales and factual details, providing an insight into Japanese behavior, thinking and way of life. This book will be immensely useful to those who wish to gain a deeper knowledge and understanding of the Japanese mind. It is the result of a four-year stay in Japan by the author, a Singaporean ex-Ambassador and politician.

Japan - Between Myth And Reality
Japan - Between Myth And Reality

Author: Khoon Choy Lee

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1995-09-30

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9814501697

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This work, written by an ex-Ambassador to Japan, is a first-hand account and observation of the various aspects of Japanese society — political, historical, social and economic. It introduces themes such as Japanese religions and the political system, as well as describing and explaining many of the country's rich traditions. The author's personal experiences of Japan are interspersed with historical tales and factual details, providing an insight into Japanese behavior, thinking and way of life. This book will be immensely useful to those who wish to gain a deeper knowledge and understanding of the Japanese mind. It is the result of a four-year stay in Japan by the author, a Singaporean ex-Ambassador and politician.

Organizational Behaviour and Work
Organizational Behaviour and Work

Author: Fiona M. Wilson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-12

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 0199645981

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This edition provides a critical approach to the study of work and organizational behaviour, questioning what organizational behaviour is and how it has been researched and discussed.

Organizational Behaviour and Work
Organizational Behaviour and Work

Author: Fiona Wilson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2010-01-21

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 0199534888

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This edition provides a critical approach to the study of work and organizational behaviour, questioning what organizational behaviour is and how it has been researched and discussed.

Male Homosexuality in Modern Japan
Male Homosexuality in Modern Japan

Author: Mark J. McLelland

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-07-08

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1135791309

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This book is the first to look at the wide range of contrasting images of the gay male body in Japanese popular culture, both mainstream and gay, and relate these images to the experience of an interview sample of Japanese gay men. In so doing, it touches on a number of important issues, including whether there can be a universal 'gay identity' and whether or not strategies developed for increasing gay and lesbian visibility in western countries are appropriate to the social situation in Japan

Historical Reality Or Metaphoric Expression?
Historical Reality Or Metaphoric Expression?

Author: Michael Wachutka

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9783825852399

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This book elucidates the differing interpretations on Japanese mythology by the German philologist and historian Karl Florenz (1865-1939) and the Japanese kokugakusha Iida Takesato (1828-1900) at the end of the 19th century. Iida in his Nihonshoki-tsushaku and Florenz in his Japanische Mythologie approached a comparable endeavor from very different vantage points. It is shown how their distinct cultural formation, their education and upbringing within unlike academic discourses, and their life within a variety of intellectual, social and political milieus formed their different scholarly outlook and methodology in interpreting and commenting on the Nihongi-myths. Comparing both scholars, their work and their mutual relation, we can find a very interesting interaction of cultural and scholarly traditions. Based on translations of both works, this study juxtaposes Iida's 'emic' inner view on Japanese mythology with the 'etic' outside view of Florenz, and at the same time provides the first portrayal of life and work of these two eminent scholars in English.

The Myth of Japanese Efficiency
The Myth of Japanese Efficiency

Author: Dan Coffey

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9781781952986

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Combining case studies with accessible but rigorous production models and historical background, this book challenges accepted views on Japanese production methods in the world car industry. The Myth of Japanese Efficiency casts a familiar debate in an unfamiliar light. It will strongly appeal to management and business strategy academics, political economists and industrial sociologists interested in the debate on Fordist versus 'post-Fordist' production methods/'lean and flexible' manufacture and Japanese post-war success in the world market for manufactured goods. Human resource management specialists interested in best production practice will also find much to interest them within this book.

Race, Gender, and Work
Race, Gender, and Work

Author: Teresa L. Amott

Publisher: South End Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 9780896085374

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An outgrowth of Boston's Economic Literacy Project of Women for Economic Justice, this new edition traces the economic and social histories of working women in America. The history documents the paid and unpaid work done by American Indian, Chicana, European American, African American, and Puerto Rican women from each group's cultural beginnings (pre-colonialization) to the most contemporary analysis of present day wage statistics. The appendices supply US census sources, occupational categories, and labor force participation rates from 1900 to 1980. Includes statistical tables. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.