How Does Labour Work Now? A Quantitative Survey of Labour Practices in Japanese Multinationals Post 1996 Workplace Relations Act (Commonwealth)

Celal Bayari

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Abstract: The focus of this paper is the labour practices that are identified with Japanese management style and their functioning in Australian subsidiaries of Japanese MNEs. The context of their functioning is the changes in labour and management relations in Australia. The data used in this paper was collected, across Australia, in the period between February and July 2001; approximately four years after the 1996 Workplace Relations Act came into effect. The data was collected from fifty-one companies, seventeen each from the sectors of manufacture and assembly, service, and marketing and sales. The survey questionnaires were aimed at the management and asked them to rate the functioning of specific labour practices. These were crosstabulated with the union presence variable at the companies. The results are discussed along with the theoretical framework and the literature review.

Keywords: Australian economy; Japanese multinational corporations; Japanese management system; Toyota Production System (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E0 E02 F1 F14 F15 F18 F2 F21 F23 F3 F36 F6 F63 F66 J2 J21 J23 J28 J5 J51 J53 J8 J82 J83 K0 K20 K4 L11 L16 L22 L5 L62 O1 O11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-12-01, Revised 2001-12-01
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Published in Proceedings of the 2001 Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference 2001 (2001): pp. 1-14

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