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Item specifics
- Condition
- Pages
- 256
- Unit Type
- Unit
- Publication Date
- 1997-09-25
- Book Title
- Work and Pay in the United States and Japan
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780195115215
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
019511521X
ISBN-13
9780195115215
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7038259715
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Publication Name
Work and Pay in the United States and Japan
Language
English
Subject
Training, Labor & Industrial Relations, Industrial Management, General, Management, Labor
Publication Year
1997
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
21.5 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
96-039268
Reviews
"The study provides a valuable comparative treatment of economic policies and global competitiveness."--Choice, "The study provides a valuable comparative treatment of economic policies and global competitiveness."--Choice"...a well-written survey of the main differences in empolyment and pay systems used by large manufacturing firms in the United States and Japan, with an emphasis on industrial relations, training, and pay design."--Journal of Economic Literature"This is an empirically rich demonstration of the synergy between employment practices, job security, pay structure, and labor-management relations."--American Journal of Sociology, "This is an empirically rich demonstration of the synergy between employment practices, job security, pay structure, and labor-management relations."--American Journal of Sociology, "...a well-written survey of the main differences in empolyment and pay systems used by large manufacturing firms in the United States and Japan, with an emphasis on industrial relations, training, and pay design."--Journal of Economic Literature, "This is an empirically rich demonstration of the synergy betweenemployment practices, job security, pay structure, and labor-managementrelations."--American Journal of Sociology, "The study provides a valuable comparative treatment of economic policies and global competitiveness."--Choice "...a well-written survey of the main differences in empolyment and pay systems used by large manufacturing firms in the United States and Japan, with an emphasis on industrial relations, training, and pay design."--Journal of Economic Literature "This is an empirically rich demonstration of the synergy between employment practices, job security, pay structure, and labor-management relations."--American Journal of Sociology, "The study provides a valuable comparative treatment of economic policies and global competitiveness."-- Choice "...a well-written survey of the main differences in empolyment and pay systems used by large manufacturing firms in the United States and Japan, with an emphasis on industrial relations, training, and pay design."-- Journal of Economic Literature "This is an empirically rich demonstration of the synergy between employment practices, job security, pay structure, and labor-management relations."-- American Journal of Sociology, "...a well-written survey of the main differences in empolyment and paysystems used by large manufacturing firms in the United States and Japan, withan emphasis on industrial relations, training, and pay design."--Journal ofEconomic Literature, "The study provides a valuable comparative treatment of economic policiesand global competitiveness."--Choice
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
331.2/0952
Table Of Content
1. Comparing Employment Systems2. Security3. Employee Involvement and Training4. Pay Systems, Career Paths, and Earnings Inequality5. Employers and Unions6. National Wage Determination in Japan7. ConclusionReferencesIndex
Synopsis
In Work and Pay in the United States and Japan , authors Clair Brown, Yoshifumi Nakata, Michael Reich, and Lloyd Ulman provide an integrated and detailed analysis of the components of firm human resources systems in the US and Japan. Drawing on data obtained from fieldwork in comparable establishments in these two countries, as well as from national sources, this work examines the relationship between company practices and national economic institutions. The authors address a number of key questions about employer-employee relations. How have major Japanese manufacturing companies been able to convert the assurance of "lifetime" employment security into a source of superior employee efficiency and adaptability, when job and income security have been feared as a source of "shirking" and wage inflation in the US? How have higher economic and real wage growth rates been associated with greater equality in earned income distribution in Japan, when the incentive role of income inequality to worker effort and savings has been stressed in the US? How could Japanese emphasis on employment security in the firm be reconciled with greater price stability and lower unemployment than in the US? This work analyzes elements such as employee training and involvement programs, wage behavior as an incentive system and an alternate channel of savings, and synchronous wage determination ( shunto ) at work in the Japanese economy that provide for such successes. The book also explores the costs that have been associated with these Japanese accomplishments, as well as who must bear them. In particular, it examines how Japanese women compare less favorably with American women in terms of opportunities for work, pay, and promotion; the higher hours of working time for men in Japan than in the US; and the constraints on mobility for Japanese workers. It also poses the question of whether Japanese unions are weaker than their American counterparts, or just more sensible and far-sighted. Finally, this \ork examines the outlook for these distinctive Japanese institutions and practices in a period of slower growth and economic "maturity." Based on a research project carried out in both countries, the book concludes with the lessons that each country can learn much from the employment practices of the other. Work and Pay in the United States and Japan will be essential reading for students, professors, and all professionals involved with employment systems and employer-employee relations., In Work and Pay in the United States and Japan, authors Clair Brown, Yoshifumi Nakata, Michael Reich, and Lloyd Ulman provide an integrated and detailed analysis of the components of firm human resources systems in the US and Japan. Drawing on data obtained from fieldwork in comparable establishments in these two countries, as well as from national sources, this work examines the relationship between company practices and national economic institutions. The authors address a number of key questions about employer-employee relations. How have major Japanese manufacturing companies been able to convert the assurance of "lifetime" employment security into a source of superior employee efficiency and adaptability, when job and income security have been feared as a source of "shirking" and wage inflation in the US? How have higher economic and real wage growth rates been associated with greater equality in earned income distribution in Japan, when the incentive role of income inequality to worker effort and savings has been stressed in the US? How could Japanese emphasis on employment security in the firm be reconciled with greater price stability and lower unemployment than in the US? This work analyses elements such as employee training and involvement programs, wage behavior as an incentive system and an alternate channel of savings, and synchronous wage determination (shunto) at work in the Japanese economy that provide for such successes. The book also explores the costs that have been associated with these Japanese accomplishments, as well as who must bear them. In particular, it examines how Japanese women compare less favorably with American women in terms of opportunities for work, pay, and promotion; the higher hours of working time for men in Japan than in the US; and the constraints on mobility for Japanese workers. It also poses the question of whether Japanese unions are weaker than their American counterparts, or just more sensible and far-sighted. Finally, this \ork examines the outlook for these distinctive Japanese institutions and practices in a period of slower growth and economic "maturity." Based on a research project carried out in both countries, the book concludes with the lessons that each country can learn much from the employment practices of the other. Work and Pay in the United States and Japan will be essential reading for students, professors, and all professionals involved with employment systems and employer-employee relations., Drawing on data obtained from fieldwork in comparable establishments in these two countries, as well as from national sources, this integrated and detailed analysis of the components of firm human resources systems in the US and Japan examines the relationship between company practices and national economic institutions., Despite the recent economic problems experienced in Japan, its extraordinary long-term growth is partly the result of its sophisticated use of its workers to increase productivity. This book examines the employment system practiced widely in Japan and compares it to the system found most often in the US, considering how the two systems have evolved and how they have affected economic performance since World War II. The authors develop two basic models, one characterized by long-term job security, worker involvement with work practices, and continuous training or retraining of workers (the Japanese model), and one characterized by less job security, rigid job classifications, adversarial relations between managers and workers, and minimal training (the US model). The authors argue that these models are not qualitatively different and that there is no single best practice that yields the best performance. Alternative systems can produce equally good results, they contend, if the elements of work practices at the firm level are integrated with governmental policies that complement those practices. Based on a large research project carried out in both countries, the book concludes with the lessons that each country can learn from the employment practices of the other.
LC Classification Number
HD70.J3W667 1997
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