Use of joint consultation committees by large Japanese firms

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Large companies in Japan often use the Joint Consultation Committee (JCC) system to share information with employees and for wage discussions prior to formal Shunto (Spring Offensive) wage negotiation. Research suggests that a firm's economic performance has little effect on the use of JCCs for information-sharing but greatly influences the use of JCCs for pre-Shunto wage negotiations. The findings support the adversity response hypothesis which states that firms are likely to make greater use of JCCs when their economic performance is in decline in a bid to avoid disputes with employees over such matters as wage rises.

Japan, Wages, Wages and salaries, Labor-management committees

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Embedding HRM in a social context

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Recent analysis of human resource management (HRM) has tended to see it as something which is designed and implemented only by individual companies. This view overlooks the social embeddedness of the HRM system. New research has questioned how free management really is in designing HRM policies and practices. It has found that the pattern of developments in HRM in Japan is a limited choice which is determined by high levels of employment security. Management values, the legal system and government policy as play significant roles.

Human resource management, Management research

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The survey tradition in British industrial relations research: An assessment of the contribution of large-scale workplace and enterprise surveys

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The contribution of large-scale workplace and enterprise-based surveys of industrial relations in Britain is assessed, with particular focus on the Workplace Industrial Relations survey (WIRS) series. Certain limitations of the WIRS series are reviewed. It is noted that there is a contrast between the use of surveys in industrial relations and in labour economics. It is argued that industrial relations researchers have developed a valuable survey tradition that is distinctive.

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