Nissan: Recent Evolution of Industrial Relations and Work Organisation

Ichiro Saga and Masanori Hanada

Chapter Chapter 2 in Teamwork in the Automobile Industry, 1999, pp 54-82 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Until the early 1970s, Nissan and Toyota were known as the two great car manufacturers in Japan. Even today, Nissan continues to occupy a prominent position in car manufacturing as the fifth largest producer. However, in the early 1980s, the company gradually lost its competitive edge, and the gap between Nissan and Toyota broadened. Nissan’s share of the Japanese internal market dropped to less than 20% (Hanada, 1998). As a major cause for this development, one could point out the fact that industrial relations within Nissan, when compared with Toyota, brought a certain rigidity to company management and work organisation. The management’s awareness of this fact, and a sense of crisis among the workforce, finally led to the expulsion of the company’s union leaders in 1986. Since then, industrial relations at the company, the mechanism for deciding wages and the organisation of labour have all been subjected to reform. This chapter will examine the characteristics of wage labour relations at Nissan in the light of these historical developments.

Keywords: Automobile Industry; Industrial Relation; Margin Rate; Labour Organisation; Internal Transfer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-14933-9_3

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