Table of contents
Middle‐aged and older employees in Japanese corporations: Their plight during the process of major historic change in employment
Norihiko SuzukiLooks at the long recession the Japanese economy suffered in the 1990s and its ramifications on the employment situation in Japanese corporations. Describes, in general, the…
The current state of human resource development administration in Japan and the debate on its future
Masayuki KitauraDescribes the areas of human resource development that come under the administration of the Human Resources Development Bureau of the Ministry of Labour in Japan, and are…
Adult business education programmes in private educational institutions in Japan
“Maurie” Kaoru KobayashiOutlines the number of difficulties the Japanese businesses encounter in their operating environment today. Argues that the traditional paradigms of an organizational structure is…
Management development in Toray ‐ now and in the future
Susumu IshizakaIn this example of in‐company development provision, Toray, the largest textile multinational in the world today, shows that it considers management development as a major…
Self‐awareness of unlimited individual potential and its development: The underlying philosophy of the management/staff development programme in Yaohan International Group
Takanori TsuchiyaFor Yaohan International Group, the most important aspects of management development are not the acquisition of knowledge and the training of skills per se, but the cultivation of…
Part‐time MBA education in Japan
Tadao KagonoOne of the characteristics of the Japanese management education has been the near absence of domestic MBA programmes on the one hand and the prevalence of in‐company education on…
Development of female managers and the sôgôshoku in Japan
Megumi NakamuraIdentifies the structural problems in the employment system which still lie behind the realization of the aim of the equal employment opportunity legislation (EEOL) which came…
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- Associate Professor Magnus Larsson