Japanese Workplaces in Transition

Japanese Workplaces in Transition explores the changes in workplaces from the perspective of employees. It provides new insights by contrasting survey and theoretical sources with excerpts from blogs published by Japanese people on the Internet. In their blogs they describe what happened to them or colleagues at work, reflect about the development of their careers or voice future ambitions and concerns. Bringing together three major developments in Japanese companies - restructuring, changing incentive systems and evaluation principles, and the increasing use of contingent workers - it shows how these developments have affected the mindsets of Japanese employees, eventually leading to a new paradigm of work in Japan.