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In the Japanese company the quality of the education and training resources available for management is regarded as crucial. This book provides perhaps the most detailed and comprehensive explanation in English to date of how the Japanese train and develop their managers.
What influence do government and leading economic organisations have on the system of management education? Will the principle of lifelong adult education be affected by the possible vulnerability of the concept of lifetime single-company employment? What are the dynamics of Japanese management structures, how do the hierarchies operate and what is the decision-making process? How does management recruitment work, job rotation, evaluation and promotion? What are the forms and methods of in-company education and training and how important are external training organisations and why? How will Japanese management education and training practices evolve in the 1990s?
These and numerous related questions are answered in this impressive book, the author of which has studied original Japanese source material and undertaken an extensive programme of interviews in Japan.


In the Japanese company the quality of the education and training resources available for management is regarded as crucial. This book provides perhaps the most detailed and comprehensive explanation in English to date of how the Japanese train and develop their managers.
What influence do government and leading economic organisations have on the system of management education? Will the principle of lifelong adult education be affected by the possible vulnerability of the concept of lifetime single-company employment? What are the dynamics of Japanese management structures, how do the hierarchies operate and what is the decision-making process? How does management recruitment work, job rotation, evaluation and promotion? What are the forms and methods of in-company education and training and how important are external training organisations and why? How will Japanese management education and training practices evolve in the 1990s?
These and numerous related questions are answered in this impressive book, the author of which has studied original Japanese source material and undertaken an extensive programme of interviews in Japan.

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CONTENTS
Foreword - Sir Peter Parker LVO = xiv
Preface = xv
Glossary = xviii
PART Ⅰ- Background and Practices
  Chapter 1 Setting the scene
    Introduction = 1
    The pre - war development = 1
      The period up to the ‘Take - off’ (1868-1890) = 2
      The middle period (1890-1920) = 8
      The third period (1920-1945) = 12
    The post - war period up to the mid - 80s = 25
      The first decade after the Second World War (1945-1955) = 25
      Preparation for expansion (1956-1960) = 37
      Maturity of in - company education (1961-1973) = 38
      The two oil crises and recovery (1974-1984) = 39
    From 1985 onwards = 41
      Japan's direct overseas investment = 41
      ￥en revaluation = 44
      Internationalization = 46
    Domestic pressures = 47
      Change in the consumption patterns = 47
      Demographic factors = 49
      Women in labour market = 50
      Shorter working hours = 63
      Inter - firm mobility = 64
      Attitude changes in the younger generation = 64
      The future of the lifetime employment system = 65
    The corporate context = 66
      The lifetime employment system = 68
      Manpower adjustment = 71
    Endnotes to Chapter 1 = 73
  Chapter 2 The role of the government and prak economic organization in human resources development
    Introduction = 83
    The education system = 84
      School education = 84
      Education in the universities = 85
      Postgraduate adult education as part of lifelong education = 86
    Government measures for human resources development = 91
      Lifelong capability development grant scheme = 91
      Vocational capability development promotion law = 93
      Lifelong education = 94
    The peak economic organizations = 96
      Keidanren = 97
      Nissh o ? = 100
      Nikkeiren = 101
      Keizai D o ? y u ? kai = 102
    Endnotes to Chapter 2 = 110
  Chapter 3 Japanese management structure and functions
    Introduction = 113
    Management structure = 114
      Keieishas o ? (top management) - the executive level = 114
      Other characteristics of the Yakuinkai = 115
      Kaich o ? (the chairman) = 116
      Shach o ? (the president) = 117
      Yakuinkai (the Board of Directors) = 119
      Renumeration = 123
      Selection of board members = 124
      The case of Nomura Securities = 124
      Kanrishaso (Middle Management) = 126
      Seishain (Management cadrd) = 126
      Trade union membership = 127
    Shokun o ? Shikaku Seido - grading and posts = 127
      The early 1970s = 128
      The late 1970s = 129
      In the 1980s = 130
      The grading system = 130
    Middle management in the workforce = 132
      Buch o ? = 134
      Kach o ? = 136
    Decision - making processes = 145
      Top - level decision - making = 146
      Decision - making at middle management levels = 147
      The ringi system = 147
    Communication = 149
    Endotes to Chapter 3 = 150
  Chapter 4 Personnel management processes
    Recruitment = 157
      The new graduate intake - the s o ? g o ? shoku category = 157
      Mid - career entry = 164
    Job rotation = 168
      Job rotation by company order = 168
      Job rotation by personal choice ; Shanai K o ? boseido = 172
      Self - declaration ; Jiko Shink o ? ku = 172
      Moving to a new post without the family ; Transhin Hunin = 173
      Secondment ; Shukk o ? = 174
      Career Development Programme (CDP) = 176
      Promotion, evaluation and reward = 182
      Evaluation = 192
      Reward = 202
    Managerial progression and the issues of generalist / specialist dichotomy = 210
    The trends = 214
    Endnotes to Chapter 4 = 215
  Chapter 5 In - company education
    Introduction = 221
    In - company education = 223
      Rank - related education and training = 224
      Functional skill - related education and training = 225
    Education of specific groups = 226
    Main methods of in - company education and training = 227
      On - the - job training = 229
      Off - the - job training = 235
      Self - development = 238
      Methods of management development = 240
    In - company management capability development = 244
      Introduction training = 244
      Solid middle (Ch u ? ken Shain) education and training = 247
      Management = 253
    Other group - and function - related education programmes = 264
      Education and training programmes for business internationalization = 264
      Development of female employees = 270
      Capability development of the forty - five plus age group = 284
    Expenditure on education and development = 289
      Collective' education and training expenditure = 290
      Company-owned training centres = 293
    Capability development function = 294
    The future = 297
    Endnotes to Chapter 5 = 298
PART Ⅱ - Training Courses and Personnel Development
  Chapter 6 Personnel practices and capability development
    Introduction = 305
    The board members = 305
      In - house seminar programmes = 306
      Correspondence courses = 310
      Bought - in courses = 310
      External courses = 311
      External seminars = 312
      Overseas industrial missions = 315
      Other ond - day and evening seminars = 316
    The Buch o ? = 316
      The President's Academy = 317
      Private academy ― E & T version = 321
      Bought - in courses held in - house = 324
      External courses = 324
      JPC monthly seminars and study meetings for Buch o ? = 329
      Overseas study tours = 329
      Summary = 329
    The Kach o ? = 329
      In - company OffJT programmes = 331
      External courses = 335
      Longer courses = 338
      Japan Productivity Centre Management Academy courses = 338
      Japan Management Association's Management Institute courses = 340
      Evaluation of the effect of the courses = 341
    The management cadre = 341
    In - company education programme = 343
      Company - wide examples = 343
      First example - Asahi Beer = 346
      Second example - Mitsubishi Electric = 358
      The new corporate ideal = 359
      Third example - Nihon K o ? kan Kabushiki Kaisha (Japan Steel Popes) NKK = 371
    Endnotes to Chapter 6 = 378
  Chapter 7 Examples from retailing and banking
    Introduction = 381
    JUSCO = 382
      The Sector = 382
      The company = 383
      Recruitment = 388
      The role of education = 391
      Personnel procedures = 404
      The Self - Declaration System = 407
      Recapitulation = 409
    Mitsui Trust and Banking = 410
      The company = 410
      Recruitment = 416
      The role of education = 418
      Personnel Processes = 430
      Conclusion = 437
    Endnotes to Chapter 7 = 440
  Chapter 8 External education organizations
    Introduction = 443
    Consultants = 444
    Corporate external education organizations = 446
    The All Japan Federation of Management Organizations = 449
    Academics in business education = 453
    External eduation providers = 454
      The Japan Productivity Centre (JPC) = 455
      The Japan Management Association (JMA) = 462
      The Japan Industrial Traning Vocational Association (JIVTA) = 471
      Nihon Keiei Ky o ? kai Nippon Omni - Management Assocation (NOMA) = 474
      Japan Management School = 477
      PHP Institute Inc. = 478
      The Matsushita Institute of Government and Management = 483
      Sann o ? University = 484
      Kei o ? Gijuku University = 487
      Aoyama Gakuin University = 489
      Aoyama Gakuin Graduate School of International Politics and Economics = 489
      Manager Training School = 491
      Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineering - JUSE = 493
      Jekku = 497
      Other business educational organizations = 499
      Other elements in the external resources = 500
    Endnotes to Chapter 8 = 504
  Chapter 9 The future of management development
    Introduction = 507
    Changes in the key issues of business management and personal and capability development = 509
      Business management = 509
      Groups at which capability development is targeted = 510
      The future for other personnel practices = 511
      Personnel management practices = 511
      Changes in the focus for capability development = 512
      Issues faced by the capability development department = 513
    Management development in the 1990s = 513
      Capability development measures for executives and middle management = 514
      The state of OffJT provision for management = 516
      Corporate support given to self - development undertakings = 520
    Conclusion = 520
    Endnotes to Chapter 9 = 525
Postscript = 529
Appendixes = 533
Bibliography = 543
Future articles for reference = 547