Japanese Labour and Management in Transition: Diversity, Flexibility and Participation

by Sako,Mari; Sako,Mari

• ISBN13: 9780415114356
• ISBN10: 0415114357
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• 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

Preface

Acknowlegement

List of contributors

Trends in Japanese Labour Markets

Labour Law Issues in a Changing Labour Market: In Search of a New Support System

Corporate Strategy and Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management Systems in Large Firms - The Case of White-Collar University Graduate Employees

Women at Work

Japanese Management and Labour in Transition - Aging Mothers

Internalisation of the Labour Market: Foreign Workers and Trainees

Rengo and Policy Participation - Japanese Style Neo-Corporatism

The Public Sector and Privatisation

Shunto: the Role of Employer and Union Coordination at the Industry and Inter-sectorial levels

Business Diversification Strategy and Emlployment: the Case of Japanese Chemical Textile Industry

Worker Participation: Collective Bargaining and Joint Consultation

New Unionism: Beyond Enterprise Unionism

Labour-Management Relations in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Collective Voice Mechanisms for Workers in Non-Unionised Companies

Bibliography of English Language Publications in Japan

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