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Japanese & U.S. Employment Relations Management

MANAGEMENT OF EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIPS: A COMPARISON OF JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES

This research compares the ways in which employment relationships are managed in Japan with the ways in which such relationships are managed in the United States. This comparison is made within the framework of exogenous (field) and endogenous (arena) sources of power and influence in complex cultural organizations. Comparisons between Japan and the United States are made within the contexts of the following sources of power and influence: history (exogenous); organizational ideology and mission (endogenous); organizational communication (endogenous); labor market (exogenous); legal environment (exogenous); and structural authority (endogenous).

The most pervasive difference in the states of mind among the people of Japan and the United States is in the status of the individual and her or his role in society. This difference is the conflict between individualism and a group-oriented culture, between the rights of the individual and the claims of the collective.

In the coming century, individualism will continue to play a very different role in Japan than it will in the United States. Three distinctive forces will cause the Japanese to take a cautious approach toward an acceptance of individualism and a rejection of traditional orientations. The first force is the pride in those ideas that created the richness of their own culture and history. Attractive as democracy and human rights are in modern times, the ability of these ideas and values to hold people together and endure over time remains to be tested. Although blunted in modern times by Western ideas of science and democracy, the tenets of Confucianism and Buddhism remain strong in Japan. They remind the people that the highest good is the good of society and that the worst blemish of the unenlightened person is egotism and selfishness. The favorite image in Taoism is water, whic...

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