While the acquisition of skills has become a major public need, there is increasing dependence for their provision on individual firms. These firms can have no responsibility for general needs with government action being restricted to residual care for the unemployed rather than contributing at the leading edge of advanced skills policy. The authors argue that public agencies must find new ways of working with the business sector, acquiring expertise and authority through such means as supporting skills standards and taking the lead in the certification of employers as trainers.

Are Skills the Answer?: The Political Economy of Skill Creation in Advanced Industrial Countries

Business & Money

CROUCH, COLIN

Finegold, David

Sako, Mari

Economics

Oxford University Press

All firms wrestle with restructuring, involving consolidation of mergers and acquisitions on the one hand, and fragmentation through outsourcing and spin-offs on the other. Through an in-depth investigation into the organizational strategies of Japanese corporate management and union leaders in Japan, Mari Sako explores the issue of 'organizational boundaries' that arises from such restructuring. Examining the strategy and structure of both businesses and trade unions, the book draws upon empirical evidence drawn from interviews conducted at Toyota and Matsushita and their respective unions. It examines their respective strategies in coping with organizational boundaries against the backdrop of changing labor markets, and in the process, challenges widely held notions about Japanese corporate and union structures. Mari Sako goes on to explore the implication of these relationships in other advanced industrial countries for corporate restructuring, jobs, and labor market flexibility.

Shifting Boundaries of the Firm: Japanese Company - Japanese Labour

All firms wrestle with restructuring, involving consolidation of mergers and acquisitions on the one hand, and fragmentation through outsourcing and spin-offs on the other. Through an in-depth investigation into the organizational strategies of Japanese corporate management and union leaders in Japan, Mari Sako explores the issue of "organizational boundaries" that arises from such restructuring. Examining the strategy and structure of both businesses and trade unions, the book draws upon empirical evidence drawn from interviews conducted at Toyota and Matsushita and their respective unions. It examines their respective strategies in coping with organizational boundaries against the backdrop of changing labour markets, and, in the process, challenges widely held notions about Japanese corporate and union structures. Mari Sako goes on to explore the implications of these relationships in other advanced industrial countries for corporate restructuring, jobs, and labor market flexibility.

Japanese Labour and Management in Transition: Diversity, Flexibility and Participation (Routledge/London School of Economics & Political Science)

This compliation of up-to-date research by leading Japanese scholars explores the changing face of Japanese industrial relations.

Sato, Hiroko

Reference

Routledge

How the Japanese Learn to Work (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies)

Japan is regarded as a world leader in the field of education and training for improved economic performance. Yet success in Japan is often achieved by going against what is regarded as ideal practice elsewhere. This book offers the most comprehensive review available in English of the many facets of Japanese vocational education and training. Covering the system from primary education through to in job-training offered by companies, this book provides a detailed study of current practice giving equal emphasis to formal training in explicitly vocational courses, and informal training in factories, shops and offices. The authors analyse the difference between substantive 'person-changing' training and mere 'ability-labelling.' They raise important questions, such as: To what extent does the need to package skills to provide convenient qualifications distort the actual training given? How efficient is it to rely on professional trainers to certify the acquisition of skills, rather than run separate testing systems? The authors reveal how, in Japanese companies, employees are strongly motivated by pride in the successful execution of their jobs, and that much company training is carried out by colleagues.

Dore, R. P.

Job Hunting & Careers

Provides a thorough examination of vocational education and training in all parts of the education system; from primary education through to in-house training in companies and on the shop floor.

Long-term, close trading relations based on trust have come to be regarded as a key to the management of buyer-supplier relations in industry, while the arm's length and adversarial commercial bargain has fallen out of favor. This book examines these contrasting approaches, and the link between them and corporate performance, through a study of the electronics industry in Britain and Japan, and offers a unique integration of multi-disciplinary theorizing and original comparative empirical work. It will be of use to those interested in the nature of the firm, and students of comparative economic performance in Japan and Britain.

Price, Quality and Trust: Inter-firm Relations in Britain and Japan (Cambridge Studies in Management, Series Number 18)

Cambridge University Press

Long-term, close trading relations based on trust have come to be regarded as a key to the management of buyer-supplier relations in industry, while the arm's length and adversarial commercial bargain has fallen out of favor. This book examines these contrasting approaches, and the link between them and corporate performance, through a study of the electronics industry in Britain and Japan, and offers a unique integration of multi-disciplinary theorizing and original comparative empirical work. It will be of use to those interested in the nature of the firm, and students of comparative economic performance in Japan and Britain.

New Suits: Appetite for Disruption in the Legal World

Wilkins, David B.

Lederer, Peter D.

Ferrer, Maria José Esteban

Stämpfli Verlag AG

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Are Skills the Answer?: The Political Economy of Skill Creation in Advanced Industrial Countries

Are Skills the Answer?: The Political Economy of Skill Creation in Advanced Industrial Countries

Shifting Boundaries of the Firm: Japanese Company - Japanese Labour

Shifting Boundaries of the Firm: Japanese Company - Japanese Labour

Japanese Labour and Management in Transition: Diversity, Flexibility and Participation (Routledge/London School of Economics & Political Science)

How the Japanese Learn to Work (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies)

How the Japanese Learn to Work (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies)

Price, Quality and Trust: Inter-firm Relations in Britain and Japan (Cambridge Studies in Management, Series Number 18)

Price, Quality and Trust: Inter-firm Relations in Britain and Japan (Cambridge Studies in Management, Series Number 18)

New Suits: Appetite for Disruption in the Legal World