HR PRACTICES OF JAPAN

ASHISH MONICA Y J

SIX PILLARS
Life time employment Company welfare Quality consciousness Enterprise unions Consensus management Seniority based reward system

HR Practices
Nature of employment Long term or Life time employment Layoffs are very rare Promotes industrial peace More than 55% of companies follow some form of life time employment

Compensation
Pay for age/experience Seniority based pay

Training

 Training is the responsibility of the company The trainings focus is generalistic

Union relationship
Japanese trade unions are at three levels 1. Enterprise based unions 2. Industrial federation 3. National center

Enterprise based unions

The enterprise-based unions utilize negotiations and labor-management consultations in the workplace to improve working conditions, to monitor corporate activities, and to provide services to their members.

Industrial federation
the industrial federations for their part are composed of enterprise-based unions in the same industry. Their member unions exchange information on common working conditions in the industry, discuss industrial policies and other problems, and strive to rectify these industry-specific problems.

National center
By bringing together the power of individual trade unions, the national center is able to raise the level of working conditions and living standards for all workers. Successes in these areas by the national center create, in turn, trust toward trade unions at the workplace level, contributing to strengthening enterprise-based unions and their industrial federations. In the past, Japan had several divided national centers, but efforts to enhance the power of trade unions resulted into the formation in 1989 of a unified national center, Japanese Trade Union Confederation