Portraits of the Japanese Workplace: Labor Movements, Workers, and Managers by Andrew Gordon

Author:Andrew Gordon [Gordon, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Political Science, World, Asian, Regional Studies
ISBN: 9780429966682
Google: s__EDwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 38497068
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-02-07T00:00:00+00:00

Management Strategy and Policy

I turn first to managerial policy, and then to the union's response and responsibility. As a window into the managerial mindset and approach, I primarily use the memoir of a labor manager at NKK, Orii Hyūga, who occupied a key position among the company's labor managers from the early 1950s through the early 1970s.2 His memoir, Twenty Years of Labor Management, indicates that, in the course of continual improvisation, the company adopted especially important labor-management policies on five occasions, in the years 1950-1951, 1957, 1959, 1963, and 1966. At each of these moments, a dramatic new managerial departure successfully responded to challenges of the previous years, and these new policies in turn shaped the workers' society into that which has since prevailed.

Using these turning points as markers, I divide the history of postwar labor management into five stages of roughly five years duration, beginning with the immediate postwar era (1945-1950) and concluding with the second half of the 1960s. Although there have been important new managerial initiatives since 1970, which I will discuss briefly in conclusion, I do not believe the basic pattern of labor-management relations has been altered in the twenty-five years since that time.

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