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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817850003321

Autore

Lam Alice C. L (Alice Cheung-Ling), <1955->

Titolo

Women and Japanese management : discrimination and reform / / Alice C.L. Lam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 1992

ISBN

1-134-92348-1

1-280-32893-2

0-203-31564-2

0-203-07605-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Disciplina

331.4/133/0952

Soggetti

Sex discrimination in employment - Japan

Women - Employment - Japan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Women and Japanese management: Discrimination and reform; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Introduction and background; Part I Discrimination against women in employment: theory and practice; Chapter 2 Internal labour markets and discrimination; Chapter 3 Sexual inequality in the Japanese employment system: discriminatory company practices; Chapter 4 The emerging situation: changing company practice in response to market pressures; Part II Legislation and reform; Chapter 5 Legislating for change? The Equal Employment Opportunity Law

Chapter 6 The management responsePart III A case study; Chapter 7 The Seibu case: an introduction; Chapter 8 The Seibu case: changing company practice; Chapter 9 Changing roles and attitudes of Seibu women: towards equal opportunity?; Part IV Conclusions; Chapter 10 Equal employment for women in the Japanese employment system: limitations and obstacles; Appendix A: Field study methods and the survey samples; Appendix B: ANOVA and multiple classification analysis; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Standard works on the employment systems of Japanese companies deal almost exclusively with men. Women, however, constitute the vast



majority of the low wage, highly flexible ""non-core"" employees.This book breaks new ground in examining the role of Japanese women in industry. It assesses the extent to which growing pressure for equal opportunities between the sexes has caused Japanese companies to adapt their employment and personnel management practices in recent years.The author puts the argument in an historical perspective, covering the employment of Japanese women from the start