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Japan Imports American Management Methods through an MBA Programme
Kimura, Yui; Yoshimori, Masaru - In: Journal of Management Development 8 (1989) 4, pp. 22-31
A description is given of the MBA programme which began in 1988 at the International University of Japan (IUJ) in conjunction with an American business school. A discussion of the traditional Japanese management development methods is given and differences from the Western approach are noted. In...
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Neo-confucianism and industrial relations in Meiji Japan
Lottanti von Mandach, Stefania - In: Journal of management history : JMH 20 (2014) 4, pp. 387-408
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Neo-Confucianism and industrial relations in Meiji Japan
Lottanti von Mandach, Stefania - In: Journal of Management History 20 (2014) 4, pp. 387-408
Purpose – This paper sets out to explain the poor nature of industrial relations in Meiji Japan (1868-1911), especially the puzzling lack of Neo-Confucianist values. Design/methodology/approach – This paper combines two approaches. First, it draws on and scrutinizes the major literature....
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MBA education in Japan
Okazaki‐Ward, L.I. - In: Journal of Management Development 20 (2001) 3, pp. 197-235
Postgraduate business education in the higher educational institutions in Japan was poorly developed, and lagged far behind not only the other advanced economies, but in some of the developing countries until the end of the 1980s. However, during the 1990s it has undergone considerable changes...
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Part‐time MBA education in Japan
Kagono, Tadao - In: Journal of Management Development 15 (1996) 8, pp. 53-64
One of the characteristics of the Japanese management education has been the near absence of domestic MBA programmes on the one hand and the prevalence of in‐company education on the other. Yet many large companies have increasingly been sending their employees to overseas MBA programmes. The...
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A day with Peter F. Drucker, volume V, tape 1
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand) - 1988
discusses functions that remain centers of specialized knowledge and training, but cease to constitute the organizational base …
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Management development in Toray ‐ now and in the future
Ishizaka, Susumu - In: Journal of Management Development 15 (1996) 8, pp. 38-46
In this example of in‐company development provision, Toray, the largest textile multinational in the world today, shows that it considers management development as a major strategic issue. While human resource development for Toray itself is managed on a traditional corporation‐wide system...
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MBA education in Japan
Ishida, Hideo - In: Journal of Management Development 16 (1997) 3, pp. 185-196
Keio University has been in the vanguard of adult business education since 1956 when it introduced American management techniques into Japan by initiating the annual one‐week “Keio‐Harvard advanced management programme” for top businessmen in Japan. But it was not until 1978 that Keio...
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Educating Japanese Leaders for a Global Age: The Role of the International Education Center
Ibe, Masanobu; Sato, Noriko - In: Journal of Management Development 8 (1989) 4, pp. 41-47
The historical background to the establishment of the International Education Center (IEC) is given and its philosophy and educational goals are discussed. The main aim of the IEC is to train Japanese students to develop international communication skills that will ultimately benefit Japan as a...
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Labor-market attachment and training participation
Ikenaga, Toshie; Kawaguchi, Daiji - 2010
This paper examines how expected attachment to the labor market and expected tenure at a specific firm affect training … participation in both employer- and worker-initiated training, while expected tenure at a specific firm mainly explains … participation in employer-initiated training. These two attachment indices explain almost half of the gender gap in training …
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