Workforce Diversity’s Consequences in Japan

Takashi Sakikawa
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Takashi Sakikawa: Niigata University

Chapter 7 in Transforming Japanese Workplaces, 2012, pp 142-164 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In the last chapter, I attempted to provide a glimpse of how Japan’s traditionally homogeneous workplaces are transforming into demographically and culturally diverse ones. However, one of the issues left to be addressed was to build formal hypotheses regarding cultural diversity and to empirically test them using hard evidence from Japanese companies. To address this issue, in this chapter, by treating workforce diversity as a proxy for cultural diversity, I assess its positive and negative consequences in Japan. More specifically, I test whether and to what extent cultural diversity affects net profits and voluntary labor turnover drawing on a sample of 976 Japanese firms. I argue and theorize on the basis of my work demonstrated in the preceding chapter.

Keywords: Japanese Company; Cultural Diversity; Female Manager; Japanese Firm; Wage Variation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137268860_7

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