Japanese Workplaces in Transition
Employee Perceptions
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Hendrik Meyer-Ohle
Human Resource Management
Management
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Changing Workplaces — Blogging about Work
The above citation is from the blog of a Japanese employee. Although just a short paragraph written in June 2001, it still provides information on the activities of a company, responses by its employees, specu...
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Conclusions — Importance of Perceptions, Employability and Directions of Change
Fooling, being fooled, mutual deception? Can this be the final, simple conclusion of this book about the future relationship between employees and companies in Japan? Surely not! Too many writers have shown in...
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Experiencing Corporate Reorganization
The above diary entry was written under the somewhat paradoxical headline “bright and clear weather” (the writer reports daily on the weather). The writer understands the situation of his company very well, an...
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Taking Up Non-Regular Employment
Looking at restructuring and changing employment principles, the previous chapters focused mostly on the situation of male employees who were regularly employed at larger Japanese corporations. Indeed, the tre...
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Japanese Corporations under Pressure: Changing Employment Practices in Three Industries
Japanese companies came under intense pressure to change employment practices from the 1990s onwards. These pressures and the companies’ responses will be outlined by looking at three industries. The electroni...
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Facing Changing Principles of Employment
The writers of the above three blog excerpts take up different aspects of work under the principles of lifelong employment, seniority payment and advancement. The first writer expresses his joy at the fact tha...
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Working as a Non-Regular Employee
Companies are increasingly relying on non-regular employees in their operations, and as the above blog entry outlines, are even assigning some of them leadership roles. Thus, when discussing non-regular work i...
