Labor Management in Japan

Hiroshi Hazama

doi:10.5029/jrbh1984.2.32

Hiroshi Hazama

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1986 Volume 2 Pages 32-53

DOI https://doi.org/10.5029/jrbh1984.2.32

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Published: March 15, 1986 Received: - Available on J-STAGE: June 28, 2010 Accepted: - Advance online publication: - Revised: -
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Date of correction: June 28, 2010 Reason for correction: - Correction: CITATION Details: Right : 1)OECD,Review of Manpower Social Policy in Japan,Paris,OECD,1973;ibid.The Development of Industrial Systems:Some Implications of Japanese Experiences,Paris,OECD,1977.The latter emphasizes social norms in addition to the“three pillars of industrial relations.”
2)Full-scale research on the history of Japanese labor management began after the1960s.Representative studies in this area include:Hiroshi Hazama,Nihon Romu Kanrishi Kenkyu(Historical Study of Japanese Labor Management),Daiyamondosha,1964;Jiro Yasui,Sen'i Roshi Kankei no Shiteki Bunseki(Historical Analysis of Textile Industrial Relations),Ochanomizu Shobo,1967;Shinpachiro Hirosaki,Nihon Joshi Romu Kanrishi History of the Management of Japanese Female Labor),Keibundo,1967;MasumiTsuda,Nenkoteki Roshi Kankei Ron(Analysis of Seniority-Based Industrial Relations),Mineruba Shobo,1968;Tsutomu Hyodo,Nihon ni okeru Roshi Kankei no Tenkai(Development of Labor-Capital Relations in Japan),University of Tokyo Press,1971;Mikio Sumiya,ed.,Nihon Roshi Kankei Shiron(Historical Analysis of Japanese Industrial Relations),University of Tokyo Press,1977;Makoto Ikeda,Nihonteki Roshi Kyocho no Seiritsu(The Emergence of Japanese-Style Labor Management Harmony),Keibundo,1982.
3)Some women also worked as supplementary workers in this industry.
4)Ronald P.Dore,Education in Tokugawa Japan,London,Routledge and Kegan Paul,1965.
5)Toshikazu Nakase,“The Introduction of Scientific Management in Japan and its Characteristics:Case Studies of Companies in the Sumitomo Zaibatsu,”in Keiichiro Nakagawa,ed.,Labor and Management:Proceedings of the Fuji Conference4,University of Tokyo Press,1979;Eisuke Daito,“Romu Kanri-Senzen no Rodoryoku Kanri o Chushin to shite”(Labor Management-with a Focus on Prewar Manpower Management),in Keiichiro Nakagawa,ed.,Nihonteki Keiei(Japanese-Style Management),Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha,1977,pp.190-216.
6)Keizai Kikaku Cho(Economic Planning Agency)and Rodosho(Ministry of Labor),Sozoteki na Jiyu jikan Katsudo no tame no Joken(Conditions for Creative Leisure Time Activities),April1984.
7)This boom in interest is not merely a fad.Research results by leading foreign scholars have been published,the most important of which.include:Robert E.Cole,Japanese Blue Collar:The Changing Tradition,Berkeley,University of California Press,1971;Ronald P.Dore,British Factory-Japanese Factory:The Origins of National Diversity in Industrial Relations,Berkeley,University of California Press,1973;James C.Abegglen,Management and Worker:The Japanese Solution,Tokyo,Sophia University,1973;Thomas P.Rohlen,For Harmony and Strength:Japanese White-Collar Organization in Anthropological Perspective,Berkeley,University of California Press,1974.Such studies as these accurately grasp Japanese labor management and industrial relations,but some other studies tend to lean toward the exotic.One such is Charles J.McMillan,The Japanese Industrial System,New York,de Guyter,1984,which uses the attitudes and behavior of the feudal ruling class of samurai to explain contemporary industrial relations.

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