Over the past two decades, Japanese companies have been mired in prolonged economic stagnation at home and have faced fierce challenges from overseas competitors. However, in facing these woes, they have not merely weathered them and done nothing. In the face of several adversities, Japanese companies have transformed, and these transformations will not stop: Japanese companies and their workplaces are still transforming, although the majority of these companies are struggling to survive.

Japanese companies have tried to transform in the face of woes that companies in the rest of the world have not yet experienced. Business leaders and even public policymakers outside Japan will be able to draw and learn lessons from Japanese firms’ experiences and to understand what they should do (and how) in the future in the face of challenges such as those to which Japanese companies have been exposed.

Join Takashi Sakikawa, Professor of Organizational Behavior, Niigata University, Japan, as he discusses:
•Japanese workplaces in transition
•Emerging management and organizational practices: the Japanese manufacturing sector
•Management practices and manufacturing performance
•Transforming workforce and organizational culture of Japanese companies
•Lessons from Japanese companies

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