Japanese Employment Practices

|International EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS |
|TO WHAT EXTENT THE JAPANESE EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES HAS CHANGED AFTER THE ECONOMIC CRISIS? |
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|SINTHIA NOVA |
|Student ID – 2724881 |
|14th May 2009 |

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION 3

TRADITIONAL JAPANESE MODEL OF EMPLOYMENT SYSTEM 4

THE CHANGING NATURE OF JAPANESE EMPLOYMENT SYSTEM 5

1. Sources of change 5

2. Lifetime employment 6

3. Seniority-based Pay and Promotion System 7

4. Enterprise Unions 9

CONCLUSION 9

REFERENCES 10

INTRODUCTION

In the post-war period, Japanese manufacturing companies significantly increased their share of the global market of automobiles (Automotive News-Market Data Book, quoted in Womack, Jones, and Roos 1991, 69) as well as achieving more than 50 percent of the world markets in cameras, video recorders, watches, calculators, microwave ovens, motorcycles, and colour televisions (Oliver and Wilkinson 1992, 5). Much of this success was attributed to the forms of human-resource Management found in Japanese companies (Abegglen and Stalk 1987; Clark

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