Japan and Organized Union Labor
The Japanese Management style is much different than in the US. The Japanese Corporations are strict and controlled but treat their workers with respect. In the past if you got hired by a Japanese Company in Japan, you would be working there for life and most likely your entire family also. You would receive a free paid vacation to just about anywhere in the World each year as well.
Of course, it's not exactly that way anymore, things are changing, in fact in Japan there are now employment lawsuits, before no one would ever think of such betrayal. The loyalty chain is being broken and the lawyers are hurting the relationship between companies and workers (families).
Indeed, much of Japan's current manufacturing success has to do with an American named Deming, who taught them the efficiencies of manufacturing management at a time when the US Automakers were too arrogant to adapt. The Japanese listened to his ideas.
Unfortunately, Japanese Corporations have now been taking advice from US Companies on cost cutting and employment management, which has thrown a loop into their systems. The bureaucracy of US Corporations makes them inefficient, even if their Six Sigma processes streamline quality and efficiency on the other end.
The climate in Japan is changing, the newest generation is questioning authority, government and corporations, now there are lawsuits and perhaps in the future we will see some sort of collective labor bargaining, but will this be the death of the Japan's superior corporate strength of days gone by? Perhaps, time will tell, but between Japan's demographic shift and this change in labor behavior, it's going to be interesting for sure.
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