International Training Trends & Japan
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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 l
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n in 2001, the Knowledge Management Group, that is attempting to instill and coordinate the new methods of training. This group sees the relatively new study of Knowledge Management generally focuses on three main ways that economics and sociology can connect: 1) a sociological analysis of economic processes and systems, 2) an analysis of the relationships between the economy and the rest of society, and 3) a study of how changing institutional and cultural patterns affect the economy.
On its well-done web site, the society posts this statement:
The Knowledge Management Society of Japan has the mission to help companies improve their knowledge management standards and better improve business performance. We hope that customers, investors and the companies themselves will use the results to improve the Knowledge Management efforts. The Society looks forward to receiving news to upgrade the results for the respective companies. We, the Knowledge Management Society of Japan, are taking action, proposing activities and organizing consortiums to ensure that the collaboration of knowledge takes root as a cultural tradition among industries in Japan. We have done so in the belief that there is no other way of breaking though the c
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Approximate Word count = 2233
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page)
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