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Labor-management communication about training
Kanbayashi, Ryō; Kato, Takao - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012200416
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The impact of teams on output, quality, and downtime : an empirical analysis using individual panel data
Jones, Derek Charles; Kato, Takao - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 64 (2010/11) 2, pp. 215-240
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009260189
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The impact of teams on output, quality and downtime : an empirical analysis using individual panel data
Jones, Derek Charles (contributor); Kato, Takao (contributor) - 2007
To investigate the size and the timing of the direct impact of participatory arrangements on business performance, we assemble and analyze extraordinary daily data - for rejection, production and downtime rates for all operators in a single plant during a 35 month period, more than 77,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003591493
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The Impact of Teams on Output, Quality and Downtime : An Empirical Analysis Using Individual Panel Data
Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - 2021
To investigate the size and the timing of the direct impact of participatory arrangements on business performance, we assemble and analyze extraordinary daily data - for rejection, production and downtime rates for all operators in a single plant during a 35 month period, more than 77,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316923
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Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and the Great Recession: Lessons from Japan’s Lost Decade
Kambayashi, Ryo; Kato, Takao - Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic … - 2013
-term consequences for the labor market structure. To this end, we examine Japan’s Lost Decade, the original Great Recession that … women made in enhancing their share of standard employment during Japan’s high growth decade in the 1980s are found to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011015021
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Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and the Great Recession: Lessons from Japan’s Lost Decade
Kambayashi, Ryo; Kato, Takao - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2013
-term consequences for the labor market structure. To this end, we examine Japan’s Lost Decade, the original Great Recession that … women made in enhancing their share of standard employment during Japan’s high growth decade in the 1980s are found to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011015085
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Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and the Great Recession: Lessons from Japan's Lost Decade
Kambayashi, Ryo; Kato, Takao - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
-term consequences for the labor market structure. To this end, we examine Japan's Lost Decade, the original Great Recession that … during Japan's Lost Decade there was a significant shift of the composition of employment toward "bad jobs." Second, we find … women in Japan made considerable progress in shifting the composition of their employment toward "good jobs" during Japan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555239
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Market characteristics, intra-firm coordination, and the choice of human resource management systems: Evidence from new Japanese data
Kato, Takao; Owan, Hideo - 2007
This paper explores theoretically and empirically potentially important yet often-neglected linkage between task coordination within the organization and the structure of organization and bundling of HRMPs (Human Resource Management Practices). In so doing, we also provide fresh insights on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268141
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Discrete innovation, continuous improvement, and competitive pressure
Ghosh, Arghya; Kato, Takao; Morita, Hodaka - 2007
Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental improvements and modifications made upon the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268378
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High performance work practices and employee voice: A comparison of Japanese and Korean workers
Bae, Kiu-sik; Chuma, Hiroyuki; Kato, Takao; Kim, Dong-bae; … - 2010
Using a unique new cross-national survey of Japanese and Korean workers, we report the first systematic evidence on the effects on employee voice of High Performance Work Practices (HPWPs) from the two economies which are noted for the wide use of HPWPs. We find for both nations that: (i)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269898