Recent organizational developments in Japan

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Many changes are currently taking place at Japanese companies. There is growing emphasis on individual performance as a means of establishing salary levels and determining promotion, but redundancies and changing employment in the middle of a career are not common. The present recession is making employers and employees more anxious, and is prompting incremental changes which may in the long term lead to a qualitative transformation.

Organizational change

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Is Globalization Making Us All the Same?

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In his book, Sanford Jacoby emphasizes the far-reaching effects and implications of human capital beyond its role as a factor of production and a variable of competition. A caution is presented against other nations adopting the shareholder-value model of the US because of its limited interpretation of human capital.

Influence, Human capital, Globalization

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Business and Society in Japan and the United States

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The author focuses on differences between Japan and the US regarding economic risk, its impact on wages and employment, and resultant levels of inequality. The shareholder model is cited as the primary driver of this change in the US; implications for future business models are discussed.

United States, Japan, Income Distribution

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