Labor Relations - Japanese Business Novel

This book gives an insider's account of Japanese labor management. Its fictional narrative opens as a quasi-mystery with a television newscast reporting on a 400 million yen embezzlement by a chief accountant. Within this framework the novel charts the relationship between the store's labor union and its top management which is in cahoots with a governmental politician.

About the author

Tamae K. Prindle is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at Colby College.

Summary

A insider's account of Japanese labour management. Within the framework of a quasi-mystery, the novel describes department store sales strategies, the manipulations of administrators and their psychological impact on the sales staff.

Product details

• Authors: Tamae K Prindle, Tamae K. Prindle, Prindle Tamae K., Kazuo Watanabe
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.05.1994
• EAN: 9780819193049
• ISBN: 978-0-8191-9304-9
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Japan, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, True stories, True stories: general, Personnel & human resources management, Personnel and human resources management