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The Keys to Successful Management Development in the 1990s

Ames, Michael; Heide, Dorothy - In: Journal of Management Development 10 (1991) 2, pp. 20-30

Europe in 1992 will have a different environment. To remain competitive firms will need to have improved their internal organisation. The relationships between three organisational variables – task design, work flow and people – and technical complexity are discussed. The Japanese...

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Management Development and Training Programmes in Japanese Firms

Neelankavil, James P. - In: Journal of Management Development 11 (1992) 3, pp. 12-17

working in Japan (in ten manufacturing and ten service companies). It appears that Japanese firms pay considerable attention …

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Development of female managers and the sôgôshoku in Japan

Nakamura, Megumi - In: Journal of Management Development 15 (1996) 8, pp. 65-78

female managers in Japan. …

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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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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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Adult business education programmes in private educational institutions in Japan

Kaoru Kobayashi, “Maurie” - In: Journal of Management Development 15 (1996) 8, pp. 30-37

Outlines the number of difficulties the Japanese businesses encounter in their operating environment today. Argues that the traditional paradigms of an organizational structure is no longer adequate for their long‐term survival, and discusses a new model of employment which has implications...

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The current state of human resource development administration in Japan and the debate on its future

Kitaura, Masayuki - In: Journal of Management Development 15 (1996) 8, pp. 17-29

Bureau of the Ministry of Labour in Japan, and are administered through human resource development councils at the central …

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Middle‐aged and older employees in Japanese corporations

Suzuki, Norihiko - In: Journal of Management Development 15 (1996) 8, pp. 8-16

situation in Japanese corporations. Describes, in general, the current trends in human resource management in corporate Japan … historic process in a move towards a new corporate society in Japan. …

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MBA education in Japan

Ishida, Hideo - In: Journal of Management Development 16 (1997) 3, pp. 185-196

techniques into Japan by initiating the annual one‐week “Keio‐Harvard advanced management programme” for top businessmen in Japan … heavily influenced by the style of business education at Harvard. It remained the only educational institution in Japan to … universities in Japan, as well as from overseas MBA programmes. Reports on the results of two surveys carried out among its alumni …

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Intercultural Training for Managers Involved in International Business

Bogorya, Yvonne - In: Journal of Management Development 4 (1985) 2, pp. 17-25

Managers involved in international business should be concerned with the cultural context of communication. A contrasting of the way the Americans and Japanese perceive reality and thus relate within their individual societies, highlights the danger inherent if one chooses to exist within a...

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