Japanese Style Management

James C. Abegglen

Chapter 4 in 21st-Century Japanese Management, 2006, pp 73-90 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The great achievements of the companies that make up Japan’s economy are the result of a brilliant blending of the technologies of the West into a management system built on the special characteristics of Japanese society. There is no need to debate whether these characteristics — an emphasis on age-grading, a high degree of group consciousness and identification rather than a focus on individualism, a general egalitarianism in compensation and privileges — are unique to Japan. They are, instead, stronger in Japan than in the Anglo-American world, rather closer to some of the characteristics of German society for example. It was the development of these original management methods that allowed Japan to become the first fully industrialized non-Western society. The classic Japanese phrase wakon yosai (Japanese spirit; Western learning) captures something of the nature of the management approach that has made for Japan’s industrial success.

Keywords: Labor Force; Chief Executive Officer; Executive Compensation; Temporary Employee; Employment Practice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230500853_4

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