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International Training Trends & Japan

Much has been written in the news media that Japan's companies are facing hard times and are being forced to throw away old concepts of organization in favor of newer, more open business theories. A 1997 report from the Japan Institute of Labor reported on an alarming trend in human relations efforts, including training. "In recent years, Japanese corporations have been shifting human resources management (HRM) from the time-honored seniority based program toward skill-based one. Foreign-capital companies, however, are more thoroughly committed to a policy of skill based payment than Japanese companies, according to a Ministry of Labour survey published on October 28,1996," (Japan Labor, 1997, Online).

The survey that was being reported on was the every-four-years survey on the realities of industrial relations at foreign-capital companies has been conducted since 1973. Following the 1994 downturn in the Japanese economy, even the Japanese kereitsu are facing hard times. However, those economic analysts and members of the news media who are tempted to write the sensationalist stories often ignore the truth.

The truth of the matter is that only a few Western manufacturing firms can truly claim to match the best Japanese firms in manufacturing. Meanwhile, Japanese firms have proved uniquely successful at transferring their own expertise and know-how across international borders from northeast England to the American South. In all of these regions, local workers with less and less guidance by Japanese managers are using Japanese keiretsu methods to produce Toyotas and Nissans for their domestic markets.

One area of HRM in which these large integrated organizations excelled was training. The internal societal pressures that Japanese companies have overcome during the last few years--slow economic growth, price deflation, over-crowded markets, and copying of innovations by rivals, are spreading to the rest of the Western worl...

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