Osamu Umezaki

ThinkersLabor economist and historian of personnel management (Hosei University)

Works

In Organizational Structures

Known for

The history of Japanese personnel policy

Ideas

What was new in the 1995 employment portfolio. With Yashiro, found that Nikkeiren's two-category employment portfolio predated its 1995 report, whose new move was a third group of short-term professional employees that was set out as policy but did not take hold in practice by the early 2000s. Caveat: A historical study of one employers' federation's policy, from its documents and its former staff's recollections, not of what firms did; only its Japanese and English abstracts were read.

In this section, “read” means read by the Organizational Structures series: where a line says a work, or part of one, was not read, the series did not read it.

Organizational Structures that draw on Osamu Umezaki (1)

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