Participatory Employment Practices in Japan

Takao Kato and Robert Hart

Chapter 3 in The Japanese Business and Economic System, 2001, pp 46-85 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In many countries around the world, management systems are moving away from the traditional employment practices, which are often characterized by adversarial collective bargaining and a fixed-wage contractual payment. Prominent among the changes involved is the widespread adoption of participatory employment practices, or human resource management practices (HRMPs).1 This chapter provides an overview of important aspects of the postwar Japanese experience with HRMPs. The discussion is in three main parts. The first reviews the scope and nature of Japanese HRMPs and their diffusion among Japanese firms over time. The second looks at the effect of such practices on company performance. The third presents some preliminary findings from our most recent research on the response of participatory employment practices to the economic slowdown of the 1990s and speculates on the future of participatory employment practices in Japan.

Keywords: Information Sharing; Industrial Relation; Japanese Firm; Human Resource Management Practice; Profit Sharing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230512283_3

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