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Participatory Employment Practices in Japan

In: The Japanese Business and Economic System

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  • Takao Kato
  • Robert Hart

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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.

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  • Takao Kato & Robert Hart, 2001. "Participatory Employment Practices in Japan," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Masao Nakamura (ed.), The Japanese Business and Economic System, chapter 3, pages 46-85, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-51228-3_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230512283_3
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