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Inside the Japanese Company

By Fiona Graham
256 pages

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Contributors:: Fiona Graham
Publisher:: Routledge Curzon
Place of publication:: New York
Publication year:: 2003
Subjects:: Industrial Relations--Japan
National Characteristics, Japanese
Insurance, Life--Japan--Management

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Based on extensive original research from inside a Japanese insurance company (C-Life), this work explores the attitudes of Japanese employees on lifetime employment, company loyalty and characteristics of Japanese working life, which are often portrayed in stereotype form in the West.

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Title Page iii
Contents v
1 - Introduction 1
2 - Literature Review 10
3 - The Company and Structure 22
4 - The Company and Career 44
5 - The Company and Life 102
6 - The Company and Human Relations 154
7 - Ideology, Groupism and Individualism 230
References 239
Index 244

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