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Workforce Diversity’s Consequences in Japan

In: Transforming Japanese Workplaces

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  • Takashi Sakikawa

    (Niigata University)

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In the last chapter, I attempted to provide a glimpse of how Japan’s traditionally homogeneous workplaces are transforming into demographically and culturally diverse ones. However, one of the issues left to be addressed was to build formal hypotheses regarding cultural diversity and to empirically test them using hard evidence from Japanese companies. To address this issue, in this chapter, by treating workforce diversity as a proxy for cultural diversity, I assess its positive and negative consequences in Japan. More specifically, I test whether and to what extent cultural diversity affects net profits and voluntary labor turnover drawing on a sample of 976 Japanese firms. I argue and theorize on the basis of my work demonstrated in the preceding chapter.

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  • Takashi Sakikawa, 2012. "Workforce Diversity’s Consequences in Japan," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Transforming Japanese Workplaces, chapter 7, pages 142-164, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-26886-0_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137268860_7
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