Production System and Labor Relations in the Ara of De-industrialization
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08453002
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
経済政策(含経済事情)
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| Research Institution | TOHOKU UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
NOMURA Masami TOHOKU UNIVERSITY,FACULTY OF ECONOMICS, 経済学部, 教授 (20112138)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TOKUNAGA Shigeyoshi MIYAGI GAKUIN WOMEN'S COLLEGE,FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES,PRPFESSOR, 学芸学部, 教授 (00004193)
HIRAMOTO Atsushi TOHOKU UNIVERSITY,FACULTY OF ECONOMICS.PROFESSOR, 経済学部, 教授 (90125641)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1996 – 1997
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 1997)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
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| Keywords | De-industrialization / Globalization / Global strategy / Multi-national company / Production system / Employment problem / Life-time Employment / Seniority wage system / 労働問題 / 人事・労務管理 |
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| Research Abstract |
We have conducted a fact-finding survey on the subject. We visited nineteen plants, eight head offices of firms and a trade union. The results of the survey are as follows.
1.Japanese MNCs (multi-national companies) tend to manage their global operations in Japan's head offices and concentrate R&D in Japan, leaving mass-production of the products in their overseas plants. Design and trial production of the products are usually done by both Japan's institutes and overseas' ones. There are some differences in the allocation of those functions among industries.
2.In the case of MNCs with "functional division of labor", they have no production base excluding that for trial production or for domestic narkets. MNCs with "division of labor between markets" preserve mass-production plants in Japan. MNCs with "division of labor among the products "tend to produce a frontier products or a high-class commodity in Japanese plants.
3.The problems by which MNCs' domestic plants are confronted vary with those types of division of labor. The plant under "functional division of labor" must produce the products of every kind, that under "division of labor between markets" undergoes directly flucltuations of the domestic market and that under "division of labor among the products "has to cope with a rapid change of products and fluctuations of the demands.
4.Those plants tend to introduce "Toyota production system" which is heavily depended on human ability, in stead of automatic machines.
5.They depend also on subcontractors or temporary workers heavier than ever, in order to cope with those fluctuations. So-called life-time employment is now shrinking.
6.The three pillars of the Japanese employment practices will change. but only gradually.
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