Japanese Employees' Attitudes Toward Changes in Traditional Employment Practices
- 1 September 1992
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society
- Vol. 31 (3) , 433-454
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-232x.1992.tb00319.x
Abstract
This study examines Japanese employees' attitudinal opposition to changes in such employment practices asnenko(seniority)‐based wages and promotions, and implicit long‐term employment guarantees for the regular workforce. The study shows that (1) overall, Japanese employees are strongly opposed to placing a cap on senior employees' pay and to mid‐career transfers to subsidiary companies, and (2) the level of opposition is a function of their perceptions of unions' past performance and of employers' human resource policies.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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