Friction Between Institutional Change and Individual Cultural Orientation

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25285113
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Management
• Research Institution: Hitotsubashi University
• Principal Investigator: AKUTSU Satoshi 一橋大学, 大学院国際企業戦略研究科, 教授 (90313436)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): UCHIDA Yukiko 京都大学, こころの未来研究センター, 特定准教授 (60411831) ; SEKIYAMA Atsuo 大阪大学, 薬学研究科, 寄付講座教授 (30403702)
• Research Collaborator: KITAYAMA Shinobu 米国ミシガン大学, 心理学部, 教授 ; COLE Steve 米国UCLA, 医学部, 教授
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 経営学 / 文化心理学 / 精神医学 / エピジェネティクス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to examine how subjective feelings such as stress and　happiness in the workplace affect the health condition by taking an empirical approach based on both sociocultural functions and psychiatric-genetic functions. In Japanese companies, a lifetime employment system has collapsed and a seniority-based payment system has been replaced. We examined how Japanese cultural characteristics and the transition affect mental and physical health of Japanese. Consequently, we found that (1) there were unique relationships among key psychological and health factors for the Japanese sample vs. for the U.S. counterpart, (2) the perceived adequacy of the company systems had a stronger relationship with the employee's commitment in the Japanese companies where the system transition had been more drastic than the foreign-owned companies in Japan, and (3) the sense of meaning and pride of one's work and company had positive associations with the employee’s health condition.

Free Research Field

経営組織論