Marsh / Mannari Modernization and the Japanese Factory

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7027-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 458 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

While some writers account for Japan's postwar economic "miracle" in terms of a distinctively Japanese, traditional model of social organization, the writers of this study consider Japan's technological growth to have been accompanied by convergence toward modernized social organization. The authors test both of these theoretical models. Their data are derived from a nine-month period of observation, analysis of company records, interviews of personnel, and questionnaire responses from production, staff, and managerial employees in three main Japanese firms. Other firms were visited more briefly. The analysis shows that the most distinctively Japanese variables have less causal impact on performance within a firm than do more universal variables such as employee status, sex, and job satisfaction.

The authors test both of these theoretical models. Their data are derived from a nine-month period of observation, analysis of company records, interviews of personnel, and questionnaire responses from production, staff, and managerial employees in three main Japanese firms. Other firms were visited more briefly. The analysis shows that the most distinctively Japanese variables have less causal impact on performance within a firm than do more universal variables such as employee status, sex, and job satisfaction.

Originally published in 1976.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Marsh, Robert Mortimer

Mannari, Hiroshi

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technik: Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Führung & Motivation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
PREFACE, pg. vii
CONTENTS, pg. xi
TABLES, pg. xii
FIGURES, pg. xvii
CHAPTER ONE. Introduction to the Problem, pg. 1
CHAPTER TWO. Three Japanese Firms in Their Industry Settings, pg. 15
CHAPTER THREE. Formal Structure, pg. 33
CHAPTER FOUR. Technology and the Division of Labor, pg. 54
CHAPTER FIVE. Job Satisfaction and Work Values, pg. 99
CHAPTER SIX. The Reward System: Pay, pg. 120
CHAPTER SEVEN. The Reward System: Promotion, pg. 157
CHAPTER EIGHT. Social Integration of the Employee into the Company (1), pg. 178
CHAPTER NINE. Social Integration of the Employee into the Company (2), pg. 203
CHAPTER TEN. Social Integration of the Employee into the Company (3), pg. 225
CHAPTER ELEVEN. Performance in Japanese Firms, pg. 254
CHAPTER TWELVE. The Social Organization of Japanese Firms, pg. 297
APPENDIX A. Research Methods, pg. 339
APPENDIX B. Construction of Indexes, pg. 347
APPENDIX C. Correlation Matrices, pg. 359
APPENDIX D. Multiple Regression Analyses, pg. 365
BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 423
INDEX, pg. 431