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Work Is No Fun

In: The Japanese Economic Crisis

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  • Jon Woronoff

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Not only is Japan supposedly blessed with a wonderful work ethic, it apparently has workers who—contrary to most others— positively like working. Vogel not only claimed that the Japanese have made large organizations “something people enjoy,” but that “employees come in to their workplace on vacation and weekends in large part because they enjoy the camaraderie.”1 The Morgans blissfully cite a model employee who “feels a sense of fulfillment from his work and his company and cannot imagine ever leaving….”2 And Thomas J. Nevins, a labor trouble-shooter for foreign companies, dotes on just how much the Japanese enjoy working.

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  • Jon Woronoff, 1996. "Work Is No Fun," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Japanese Economic Crisis, chapter 9, pages 169-193, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37568-0_9
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230375680_9
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