Japanese Human Resource Management Labour-Management Relations and Supply Chain Challenges in Asia /

• Main Author: Kuriyama, Naoki (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Palgrave Macmillan Asian Business Series
• Subjects: Business.; Management.; Manpower policy.; International business enterprises.; Business and Management.; Human Resource Development.; International Business.

This book is a comprehensive study underpinned by thirty years of research conducted by the author relating to Japanese human resource management and labour-management relations. Its aim is to achieve a better understanding of the Japanese model for human resource management and labour standards iss...

Table of Contents:

• Part Ⅰ: A model of Japanese-style management
• Chapter 1 Stereotypes of Japanese Human Resource Management and Labour Management Relations
• Chapter 2 Practical wisdom of Labour-Management Relations (LMR) through the productivity movement in Japan
• Chapter 3 The case of the food and drink industries in Japan in response to technological change and employment adjustment in the late 1990s
• Chapter 4 The Formation of Industrial Subcontracting in the Japanese Manufacturing Industry
• Part Ⅱ Transferability to Asia
• Chapter 5 Resilience of Japanese automobile investment in Thailand during the 1997 Asian financial crisis
• Chapter 6 Japanese TNC–SME linkages through industrial subcontracting
• Chapter 7 Soft side of technology transfer
• Chapter 8 New technologies and employment of Japanese subsidiaries in Thai manufacturing
• Chapter 9 Prospects for human resources development of SMEs, micro enterprises and informal sectors
• Chapter 10 Employment Situations in Japan and the effects of Human Resources Development to globalizing Asia in the 90s
• Part Ⅲ Labour standards and conditions at supply chains in Asia
• Chapter 11 The ILO Standards with regards to Developing Countries in the late 1980s and particular relations to the circumstances of ASEAN countries
• Chapter 12 Core Labour Standards and globalization
• Chapter 13 Labour Standards of international CSR initiatives and the perspectives of Asian Employers –With Reference to a survey for Asian Employers’ Organizations in 2011
• Chapter 14 Role of business in Asian living and working conditions.