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My article about what could happen after web2.0 was chosen as an ``article of this month award'' or something like that in the office. Even though it's a completely in-houser award that almost anybody could get, I felt relieved. It's been a little over two months since I came to this new company. I seem to have settled down. Glad I changed my jobs.
posted by ken @ 8:32 AM
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Congratulations on the in-house award!! Unlike other stingy Japanese companies, I am hopeful that you received some sort of monetary award for your literary acumen. It may not be good enough to win you a Pultzer prize but it may at least take you part of the way there in the future.
Michael
Congrats, but where's the article? :-)
Schani,
You have to purchase the magazine to read the article. Otherwise, the company could not afford to retain the services of the author.
Michael
Oh, no of course you don't have to purchase any magazines. LOL
Mike, I have been working on an online medium for a while, where all the articles are free. We don't sell paper magazines at all.
http://www.atmarkit.co.jp/news/analysis/200701/09/c10k.html
Anyway, thank you guys. The link above leads you to the Japanese world. Muhahaha.
Mike, I was just given a brief explanation as to how they evaluate employees and I found that the system is pretty clear and fair. There has been so much debate over whether Japanese companies should shift to meritocracy and unfortunately some systems didn't work like in Fujitsu. They abandoned the newly implemented merit system after only a year or so. But, I heard that the merit system has been working well in my new company. I will see.
The implementation of a merit system among Japanese companies is a façade. Rather, many Japanese companies have adopted a kind of "third way". One more focused on primary businesses, better utilization of human capital, implementation of advanced technologies and focusing on cost-effectiveness. Overtime and twice-yearly bonus payments have been significantly reduced from the 80’s and contract employees have in some cases replaced full timers, reducing payrolls without reducing staff. Companies have also disposed of many illogically diverse subsidiaries and subdivisions, in some cases hundreds of them, to concentrate on core businesses.
Michael
In most cases, the implementation of a merit system was too imprudent. We have a long history and culture which naturally require some alteration to merit systems outside Japan. Also, the Fujitsu fiasco revealed the fact that there are good aspects in the Japanese system which not many Japanese company executives were aware of.
About the climate change in the Japanese industries, what you described is almost what I experienced in the former company. When I started working in 1993, there were 1600 employees but only a little more than a hundred were remaining when I left. We dealt with not only magazines and books, but also software and hardware. Oh, there was also a travel agency,,, and movie distributer in my former company. Can't belive it.
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