Human Resources Management

2003
Sep	Firms Reduce Opportunities for Off-the-Job Training (PDF 604KB) One-Quarter of Large Firms Call for Voluntary Retirement: Ministry Survey (PDF 604KB)
Aug	Researchers Receive Inadequate Treatment (PDF 567KB)
Mar	Labor Cuts and the Growth of the Outplacement Industry (PDF 149KB)
Jan	Majority of Firms Agree Legal Protection Needed for Whistle-blowers (PDF 180KB)
2002
Dec	Majority of Firms Confronted with Rewarding Outstanding Employees (PDF 185KB)
Nov	Number of Employees Suffering from Depression Increases (PDF 153KB)
Sep	Outplacement Firms Expand Role: JIL Survey (PDF 209KB) Most Firms Select which Workers They Will Keep after Retirement (PDF 209KB) Two-thirds of Firms Conduct Training Off-site (PDF 209KB)
Jul	Major Supermarkets Institute Similar Conditions for Regular and Part-time Employees (PDF 218KB) Many Companies Monitor Internet Access without Informing Employees (PDF 218KB)
May	IBM Japan Increases Number of Employees Working from Home (PDF 186KB) Tokyo District Court Rules Gender-Specific Jobs are Illegal (PDF 186KB)
Feb	Health Insurance Society Established for Dispatched Workers
2001
Dec	Few Female Workers on Management Track
Nov	More Firms to Cut Jobs in IT Slump Remuneration Commensurate with Contribution — Inventiveness Awarded
Oct	Stock Options becoming More Popular in Japanese Firms Using the Internet for Recruitment
Sep	Best Use of General Clerical Workers
Aug	NPA Seeks to Increase the Number of Women in Civil Service
Jun	Reassessing Job-ability Qualification Systems Foreign-affiliated Companies in Japan Work to Attract Experienced Employees with Better Working Conditions Managers without Subordinates: Survey of Workers in Managerial Posts
May	Reorganization of Businesses and Employment Adjustment Aimed at Middle-aged and Older Workers Labor and Management Lay Down Voluntary Guidelines for Night Work
Mar	“Temp-to-Perm” Services Deregulated
Jan	Geographically Tied Employment Schemes
2000
Dec	Survey Results on Fixed-term Employment Contracts
Nov	Relationship between Personnel Systems and Mental Stress Growing Number of Corporate Pension Funds Dissolved
Oct	2000 Survey on Employment Management: Managing of Retiring Older Workers
Sep	Introduction of Stock Options in Major Firms
Aug	Update on the Discretionary Work Scheme
Jul	Companies Grapple with the Dwinding Family
Apr	Employment Situation for Disabled People
Mar	Large Electricity Firms Extend Employment to 65
Jan	Ministry of Labour Awards for "Family-Friendly" Firms
1999
Dec	Percentage of Women Directors at Listed Firms Stands at 0.25 Percent
Nov	Corporate Pension Schemes at a Turning Point Women in Managerial Posts
Oct	Job Experience for University Students
Sep	1999 Survey on Employment Management
Aug	Measures to Prevent Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Jun	Revised Equal Employment Opportunity Law Came into Effect on April 1
May	The Revised Labour Standards Law Enables Recruitment of Women Workers
Mar	Toyota to Reduce Production Capacity through Employment Maintenance
Feb	Drastic Restructuring in Banking and Financial Circles
1998
Nov	Findings Released from The 1997 Basic Survey on the Employment of Women
Oct	Managers' Work and Changes in Roles
Jul	Corporate Trends in Active Utilization of the Elderly
May	Twenty-One Banks Plan to Restructure
Mar	Reform of Welfare Provisions System
1997
Nov	Trends in Internship Programs
Sep	Fifty Five Percent of Big Companies Have an Early-Retirement Preferential Program: Preliminary Results from the 1997 Employment Management Survey
Aug	Ban Lifted on Stock Option Systems
Jul	Trends in the Contracting of Flight Attendants
Jun	Accelerating Introduction of Early-Retirement Packages
May	Corporate Chiefs Earn Average ¥29.36 Million a Year
Apr	Present State of Cafeteria-Style Welfare Provisions
Jan	Human Resources Management at Foreign-Capital Companies Real State of Personnel Management for�@Part-Time Workers
1996
Dec	Diversifying Recruitment at Companies
Aug	About 70% of Corporations Plan to Introduce Annual Pay System Employees' Pension Fund in Bad Shape - Employees' Pension Fund Association and Ministry of Health and Welfare Respond to the Situation -
Jun	Majority of Companies Plan Reviews of Personnel Evaluation Systems
May	Restructuring in Banking
1995
Oct	Trends in Diversifying Recruitment
Sep	The 1995 Survey on Employment Management
Aug	Major Distributors to Start Hiring in Fall
Jul	Three Airline's Restructuring Hiring Programs
Jun	1995 Conference on Industrial Relations
Apr	Corporate Volunteer Work in Quake - Ravaged Area
Mar	Orix to Hire Middle - Aged and Elderly Persons Trends in Early Retirement Programs
Feb	White - Collar Workers Stress Professional Vocational Ability - A Ministry of Labour Survey Says Daikin to Introduce Variable Working Hours System #2N for the Year at Production Division
Jan	Female University Graduates' Job Selection Behavior and Working Life
1994
Dec	Steelmakers Farm out Workers to Subsidiaries
Nov	Commuter Quandary in Metropolitan Areas - 70% "Feel Exhausted" Japanese Airlines' Issue of Hiring Contract Flight Attendants
Oct	New Trends in Personnel and Labor Management for White - Collar Workers - Vocational Ability Authorization and Official Qualification
Sep	Starting Pay Freeze
Aug	Mid - and Long - term Prospects for Japanese - style Employment Practice
Jul	1994 White Paper on Industrial Relations
Jun	Rationalization and Streamlining Efforts toward Indirect Divisions 60% of Managers are Contented with Annual Pay Scheme
May	Airline Restructuring Programs
Apr	More Handicapped Persons Have Jobs
Jan	Cases Sexual Harassment: Survey Commissioned by Ministry of Labour
HOME    MENU    BACK