Japanese Labour and Management in Transition

by Sako,Mari; Sako,Mari

• ISBN13: 9780415114349
• ISBN10: 0415114349
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-04-03
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Recent economic trends are changing forever the face of Japanese industrial relations;Japanese Management and Labourexplores 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 growingeconomic pressures that Japanese management and labour currently face.Japanese Management and Labouris sure to add to the lively debate now taking place regarding management in recessionary Japan.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii	(2)
List of tables	ix	(3)
List of contributors	xii	(1)
Foreword	xiii	(3)
Acknowledgements	xvi
Introduction: forces for homogeneity and diversity in the Japanese industrial relations system	1	(26)
Mari Sako
Part I	27	(160)
1 Trends in Japanese labour markets	27	(26)
Yoshio Higuchi
2 Labour law issues in a changing labour market: in search of a new support system	53	(26)
Kazuo Sugeno
Yasuo Suwa
3 Corporate strategy and human resource management	79	(25)
Takashi Kawakita
4 Human resource management systems in large firms: the case of white-collar graduate employees	104	(27)
Hiroki Sato
5 Women at work	131	(20)
Akira Wakisaka
6 Ageing workers	151	(17)
Atsushi Seike
7 Internationalisation of the labour market: foreign workers and trainees	168	(19)
Koichiro Imano
Part II	187	(145)
8 Rengo and policy participation: Japanese-style neo-corporatism?	187	(28)
Toru Shinoda
9 The public sector and privatisation	215	(21)
Naoto Ohmi
10 Shunto: the role of employer and union coordination at the industry and inter-sectoral levels	236	(29)
Mari Sako
11 Business diversification strategy and employment relations: the case of the Japanese chemical textile industry	265	(15)
Michio Nitta
12 Worker participation: collective bargaining and joint consultation	280	(16)
Keisuke Nakamura
13 New unionism: beyond enterprise unionism?	296	(19)
Hiroyuki Fujimura
14 Labour-management relations small and medium-sized enterprises: collective voice mechanisms for workers in non-unionised companies	315	(17)
Hiroki Sato
Appendix	332	(5)
Index	337