Authors: Mari Sako (Editor), Hiroki Sato
ISBN-13: 9780415114349, ISBN-10: 0415114349
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: March 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Recent economic trends are changing forever the face of Japanese industrial relations; Japanese Management and Labour explores these changes. Authors Mari Sako and Hiroko Sato examine the responses of both Japanese management and labour, and that of the Japanese government, to these economic transitions. In Part 1 of the work, recent trends in Japanese labour markets, labour law and corporate strategy are explored. As labour and management yield to these new economic pressures, changes in industrial relations are shown to be the inevitable result. Part 2 analyses the interaction between the state, management and labour. Both the macro and the micro levels are given full consideration, as the government of Japan seeks to strike a balance between the often antithetical needs of labour and management. This compilation of current research has been collected by leading Japanese scholars, and effectively challenges the traditional view of `lifetime' employment while focusing on the growing economic pressures that Japanese management and labour currently face. Japanese Management and Labour is sure to add to the lively debate now taking place regarding management in recessionary Japan.
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Foreword | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
Introduction: forces for homogeneity and diversity in the Japanese industrial relations system | 1 | |
1 | Trends in Japanese labour markets | 27 |
2 | Labour law issues in a changing labour market: in search of a new support system | |
3 | Corporate strategy and human resource management | 79 |
4 | Human resource management systems in large firms: the case of white-collar graduate employees | 104 |
5 | Women at work | 131 |
6 | Ageing workers | 151 |
7 | Internationalisation of the labour market: foreign workers and trainees | 168 |
8 | Rengo and policy participation: Japanese-style neo-corporatism? | 187 |
9 | The public sector and privatisation | 215 |
10 | Shunto: the role of employer and union coordination at the industry and inter-sectoral levels | 236 |
11 | Business diversification strategy and employment relations: the case of the Japanese chemical textile industry | 265 |
12 | Worker participation: collective bargaining and joint consultation | 280 |
13 | New unionism: beyond enterprise unionism? | 296 |
14 | Labour-management relations in small and medium-sized enterprises: collective voice mechanisms for workers in non-unionised companies | 315 |
Appendix | 332 | |
Index | 337 |