... opportunities? Learning Total quality management Japan The antecedents of learning organisations are rooted in history; however, the advent of quality initiatives early in the last century and their more widespread use post‐World War II, particularly among Japanese companies that attracted...

...; the seniority based wage and promotion systems; the welfare systems based around employees’ life‐cycle needs. Japan Case studies Personnel management Employment Over the decades since the appearance of Japan’s post‐war economic miracle, there have been frequent vacillations in mainstream...

...Thomas Lange; Keith Maguire This article examines the cases of Germany and Japan where education and training is orientated towards producing workers who can consistently deliver high standards of quality control in manufacturing industry. It begins by examining why unemployment is such a serious...

...Andrew Kakabadse; Andrew Myers; Lola Okazaki‐Ward Japan’s advance into Europe over the last ten years or so has been well documented. Through localization, gaining a competitive advantage has been the strategic response of Japanese organizations towards Europeanization. Reports on a survey of some...

...May M.L. Wong Describes and compares the objectives and content of the graduate training programme conducted in Japan by a Japanese retailer and by its Hong Kong subsidiary. The case company uses different approaches to train the Japanese graduate trainees in Japan and the local graduate trainees...

...John Lorriman Based on the book Japan′s Winning Margin – Management, Training and Education, co‐authored with Professor Takashi Kenjo and published by Oxford University Press in April 1994, argues that learning should be lifelong and worldwide. In particular, there are lessons from Japan...