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Personnel Management

In: Trends in Japanese Management

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  • Toyohiro Kono
  • Stewart Clegg

Abstract

The personnel management systems at successful Japanese corporations have often been explained in terms of gemeinschaft (community organisation), as opposed to gesellschaft (association). Tönnies first proposed these concepts in 1887. A gesellschaft organisation is a purely profit-making organisation. Unless they are rewarded, people will not work. No moral or spiritual unity can be presumed. People are bound together by contract but they exist apart from each other, alienated and in a state of tension. They work according to a division of labour, within the strict limits of the job, and each is merely one small cog in the organisational wheel. A gemeinschaft organisation, on the other hand, is more like a family or a church, where the members are held together by bonds of love. In such an organisation working together is seen as a source of joy. People empathise with, and help, trust and understand one another, sharing bad luck as well as good.

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  • Toyohiro Kono & Stewart Clegg, 2001. "Personnel Management," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Trends in Japanese Management, chapter 10, pages 251-283, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-333-99389-7_10
    DOI: 10.1057/9780333993897_10
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