Last Updated: 13 Jul 2020 Turnover in Japanese firms
American employees of Japanese firms tend to measure their career progress against their peers in American firms and thus expect more rapid advancement. An adjustment Japanese firms will need...
HR management
Last Updated: 14 Jul 2020 Why do many Japanese businesspeople live apart from their families? Tanshinfunin.
When assigning an employee to a transfer, whether it be within Japan or to someplace abroad, Japanese companies typically do not ask employees “Is now a convenient time for you...
Last Updated: 14 Jul 2020 Career planning in the U.S. and Japan
Japanese employees have little control over where they are assigned in their companies… Americans will take career planning into their own hands, deciding what they like to do and what...
Last Updated: 14 Jul 2020 Employee categories at companies in Japan — seishain, shokutaku, jimushoku, sogoshoku
Human resource management practices in Japan seem to place great emphasis on putting employees into categories. From an American perspective, the strict distinction between different categories is difficult to...
Last Updated: 14 Jul 2020 Training for overseas managers at Japanese firms
Many Japanese firms are experiencing some difficulty when they attempt to localize key management positions. They are not confident in the capabilities of their locally hired managers, not sure...
Last Updated: 15 Jul 2020 Checklist for planning sexual harassment prevention training programs for Japanese participants
Various issues should be considered when planning sexual harassment prevention training programs for Japanese. Addressing these items will help you ensure that your programs are effective and your company...
Last Updated: 15 Jul 2020 The various roles of Japanese expatriates
Many Japanese expatriates don’t have a clear idea of what their role is….most don’t even have job descriptions, so it’s no wonder they feel unclear about their mission....
Last Updated: 15 Jul 2020 Japanese expatriates may experience some negative side effects by choosing tanshin funin
A call that we frequently receive from HR managers regard Japanese expatriates who do not get along with the American staff. Often the behaviors are ones that would not...
Last Updated: 15 Jul 2020 Over worked and underpaid Japanese employees feel the burden of sabisu zangyo
All I heard from my Japanese friends were tales of long hours. An officemate so overwhelmed by long hours that she had to get medication for depression…it just seemed...
Last Updated: 15 Jul 2020 Extending Japanese firms’ human resource development strength abroad
Japanese firms need to find ways to extend their competitive strength in human resource development to their employees outside of Japan…although such global rotation programs make sense for high potentials...