Firm Entry, Tracking System, Careers, Status Negotiation

Tomoko Kurihara

Chapter Chapter 4 in Japanese Corporate Transition in Time and Space, 2009, pp 75-116 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In the previous chapter, I outlined the wider historical, socio-cultural, legal, and economic climate of the late 1990s. In this chapter, I examine how those transitions shape JCar’s employment practices, workers’ identities, and career trajectories. Thus, in examining employment practices, I keep to the core themes of the book, and my analysis refers to gender, status politics, and ideology. Chapter 4 thus explores the following areas of employment practice: recruitment and route of entry (via personal connections; female university and junior college graduates; male university graduates in clerical and technical positions; disabled persons); the tracking system—discussion of the clerical and career tracks (including inter- and intra-gender differences); the changing conception and experience of occupational role; conversion to the career track; women’s career aspirations; women and men’s talk of male careers; personality and appearance of new recruits; femininity (masculinity is discussed in chapter 6); and, the changing social perception of female office workers. Without further ado, let us explore JCar’s employment practices in detail.

Keywords: Female Worker; Disable Person; Personal Connection; Firm Entry; Disable Worker (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230101135_4

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