Employment Relations

Employment Relations: Essentials for Your Career
Tomoko Komagawa and Kaoru Kanai (eds.)

210 mm x 148 mm
246 pages
JPY 2,200
ISBN 9784790717881
Pub date: January 2024

Toward the realization of fulfilling and humanistic work.
Economic and social changes and the diversification of people’s values are forcing changes in employment management based on gender. This book analyzes the career development process through gender perspectives, and presents the current situation, issues, and paths to solutions. A book to support all workers!

Points of Appeal
1) Practical theory presented on the basis of feminist economics
2) Detailed information about workers’ rights, business ethics, DE&I, and sustainable business operations
3) Extensive data on the Japanese labor market

Table of Contents
Introduction: Why study employment management 

Chapter 1  Employment and recruitment of university graduates: Reading and understanding the system and structure

Chapter 2  Assignments, transfers, and relocations: Duties that form the core of career development 

Chapter 3  Wages: What is a sustainable wage system?

Chapter 4  Promotion: A position to realize what you want to do

Chapter 5  Working hours: Toward the correction of long working hours 

Chapter 6  Work and pregnancy, childbirth, and childcare: Why “balancing work and childbirth” is a problem

Chapter 7  Harassment: Workplaces where workers’ dignity is maintained

Chapter 8  Managers: Key personnel in creating a workplace where everyone can work comfortably 

Chapter 9  Leaving and changing jobs: Toward the realization of long-term career development 

Chapter 10  Non-regular employment: For the realization of decent employment

Chapter 11  Labor unions: Improvement of working conditions with our own hands

Chapter 12  New Ways of Working: Telework, Side Jobs, and Freelance Work

Chapter 13  Working with People of All Kinds: Respect for Human Rights and Promotion of DE&I by Companies under the SDGs

Conclusion: Considering the Future of Labor

For Deeper Learning
Index 

Reviews
“This publication shows the reality of a vicious circle in which men’s long working hours bias care work, such as housework and childcare, towards women, which results in women being undervalued and underpaid as workers, and suggests measures to improve this situation.”― Hokkaido Shimbun