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Nonfiction. In large corporations in Japan, much of the clerical work is carried out by young women known as "office ladies" (OLs) or "flowers of the workplace." Largely nameless, OLs serve tea to the men and type and file their reports. They are exempt from the traditional lifetime employment and have few opportunities for promotion. Ogasawara details the subtle and not-so-subtle ways that OLs who are frustrated by demeaning, dead-end jobs thwart their managers and subvert the power structure to their advantage. Using gossip, outright work refusal, and public gift-giving as manipulative strategies, they can ultimately make or break the careers of the men. This intimate and absorbing analysis illustrates how the relationships between women and work, and women and men, are far more complex than the previous literature has shown. |
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Japanese Society
by Chie Nakane
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Publisher: University of California Press
Pub. Date: June 1970
ISBN-13: 9780520021549 |
| Nonfiction. A brilliant wedding of 'national character' studies and analyses of small societies through the structural approach of British anthropology. Professor Nakane comes to explanation of the behavior of Japanese through analysis rather of historical social structure of Japanese society, beginning with the way any two Japanese perceive each other, and following through to the nature of the Japanese corporation and the whole society. Nakane's remarkable achievement, which has already given new insight about themselves to the Japanese, promises to open up a new field of large-society comparative social anthropology which is long overdue. (Sol Tax) |
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Danger and Opportunity: Resolving Conflict in U.S. –Based Japanese Subsidaries
by Clifford H. Clarke and G. Douglas Lipp
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Publisher: Intercultural Press
Pub. Date: June 1998
ISBN-13: 9781877864773 |
| Nonfiction. Presents a framework for approaching and resolving the crises that arise in Japanese subsidiaries in the US, consisting of a seven-step conflict resolution model encompassing problem clarification, cultural and organizational exploration, and organizational integration. The model is applied in case studies drawn from real life. Each case study falls within one of eight principal operational areas of business organizations, such as corporate values, staffing policies, and operational systems. For managers, employees, and students. (Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.) |
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