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Japanese Labour and Management in Transition Diversity, Flexibility and Participation
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Routledge
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Routledge
360 Pages
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Routledge
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Japanese Management and Labour in Transition explores the changing face of Japanese industrial relations. Part one of the work outlines recent trends in Japanese labour markets, labour law and corporate strategy, and explores the responses of both management and labour to pressure posed by these trends. Part two analyses the interaction between the state, management and labour, considering both... Read more
Introduction; I: Part I; 1: Trends in Japanese Labour Markets; 2: Labour Law Issues in a Changing Labour Market; 3: Corporate Strategy and Human Resource Management; 4: Human Resource Management Systems in Large Firms; 5: Women at Work; 6: Ageing Workers; 7: Internationalisation of the Labour Market; II: Part 2; 8: Rengo and Policy Participation; 9: The Public Sector and Privatisation; 10: Shunto; 11: Business Diversification Strategy and Employment Relations; 12: Worker Participation; 13: New Unionism; 14: Labour—Management Relations in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
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Mari Sako, Hiroko Sato
'...this is surely the best book in English om the subject, and I highly recommend it to academicsand students of Japanese industrialrelations.' - Philippe Debroux, The Pacific Review - 2001
