ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1995.tb00148.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This paper discusses the transfer of management practices from parent companies in Japan into the operations of overseas subsidiaries of Japanese enterprises. the literature reviewed as well as the findings of case studies on human resource management practices in Japanese manufacturing firms in Australia suggest that key but rather high‐cost practices associated with Japanese management including tenured employment, seniority‐based remuneration and the provision of extensive welfare benefits are absent in overseas Japanese firms. On the other hand, relatively low‐cost practices such as internal training, internal promotion and job rotation have been generally introduced into the firms researched. It appears, therefore, that the transfer of Japanese management practices is primarily affected by economic considerations rather than socio‐cultural constraints as it has frequently been argued in the literature. Thus, the development of new theoretical frameworks explaining the transfer (or its absence) of Japanese management practices is essential. the paper takes a small step in this direction by suggesting that the overseas expansion of Japanese subcontracting networks including large‐scale corporations as well as smaller size firms, produces conditions leading to the marginalization of segments of the local labour force and the emergence of the core‐peripheral workforce dichotomy at the internat

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1995.tb00149.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The transferability of the Japanese management syndrome is examined through an analysis of the employment policies and practices of two major Japanese multinational electronics companies operating in Malaysia. the evidence suggests that the question of transferability must be considered in the specific historical context. While such companies operate from within a preferred managerial style, the case study evidence suggests that employment policy and practice is likely to be significantly constrained by business objectives and heavily conditioned by the local economic, political and legal conditions and socio‐cultural value

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1995.tb00150.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Changing competitive conditions in Brazilian industry are leading companies to seek Japanese management techniques as a means of rapidly raising productivity and quality. Macroeconomic instability, low levels of educational achievement and poor labour relations would seem to present barriers to the use of these techniques. Case studies of firms in the motor components industry show that firms in Brazil can make radical changes to their production systems, overcome educational deficiencies and also secure reverse past employment relations practices in order to obtain some degree of acceptance of change by labour. However, there are reasons for supposing that these successes may be difficult to sustain in a difficult and turbulent macroeconomic environment.

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1995.tb00151.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Japanese industry is characterized by a unique set of industrial relations and management styles. the ability to transfer these relations overseas has been the object of much scholarly and popular debate. This paper examines this transfer to the United States in the automobile and electronics industries.It was found that Japanese automobile manufacturers had been able to transfer most of the central features of the system with some adaptation. the most successful firms were using teams, quality control activities, rotation and quite egalitarian management styles. On the other hand, most of the electronics transplants examined had not transferred Japanese style industrial relations. the electronics firms seemed to be content to accept many of the prevailing US practices.It is concluded that the transfer of Japanese style relations is possible, but that this occurs only where Japanese managers make a considered and sustained effort to implant their system. In many electronics operations it appears as though Japanese managers never seriously attempted to implement the Japanese system. Thus, the record of transfer is mixed at the moment.

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1995.tb00152.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This research considers the process of management control and workers’ actions in a Japanese‐owned consumer electronics plant sited in England. the data are drawn from a period of participant observation which enabled the author to explore, in detail, the style and extent of management control and worker behaviour, and the nature of workplace relations at the plant. the author found that the incorporation of just‐in‐time JIT) and total quality management (TQM) into clearly defined management objectives had allowed a more complete combination of the control of labour with management's economic goals than that apparent under piece rate systems of control. Worker resistance and ‘misbehaviour’ persist, but in ways which are increasingly fragmentary a

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1995.tb00153.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This paper assesses the transferability of a Japanese form of manufacturing organization to an alien institutional environment ‐ the Principality of Wales in the UK. After characterizing what we mean by a ‘Japanese form of manufacturing organization’ and the arrival of Japanese companies in Wales, we describe the forms of organization, day‐to‐day management and working practices which have been established. Our conclusion is that the Japanese form of manufacturing organizationhasbeen re‐created on Welsh soil, and that any ‘adaptations’ are not such as to alter the fundamental features of the new orga

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1995.tb00154.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY