Human Values and HRM Practice

The Japanese Shukko System

Bibliographic Data

ID12318911
AuthorsRichard Grainger (0000-0001-9737-281X, Curtin University, corresponding author), Richard J Grainger (School of Management, Curtin Business School, Curtin University of Technology of Bentley WA, Australia), Tadayuki Miyamoto (Curtin University of Technology, Bentley WA, Australia)
Year2003
Volume9
Issue2
Pages105-115
Publication date2003-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Human Values (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0971-6858 • E-ISSN: 0973-0737
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/097168580300900202
OpenAlexW2110479134
LanguageEN
Citations received1

Aspects of the Japanese human resources management system are discussed to illustrate the underly ing significance of human values in Japanese organizational management, with a particular aspect of Japanese human resource management used as an illustrative case. Relevant literature is reviewed to introduce the relational Japanese management and human resources management (HRM) systems, and to explain the system of inter-firm employee transfer within the corporate group known as the 'shukko' system. The paper then discusses various impacts of this HRM practice upon major stakehold ers and identifies otherwise redundant employees as major beneficiaries of the system, thereby demon strating that human values are critical to the conceptualization and application of Japanese human resources management practices

Business · Conceptualization · Economics · Human resource management · Human resource management system · Human resources · Knowledge management · Management · Organizational behavior and human resources · Organizational performance · Strategic human resource planning · Computer Science · Labor Movements and Unions · Management and Organizational Studies · Artificial Intelligence

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