National Institutions and HRM

Question: The selected country is Japan For this assignment, identify three national institutions in your selected country (Japan), and respond to the following: What is the historical foundation of your selected country? How might your selected country's national culture, institutions, ethics, and values influence its HRM practices? Answer: Japan is the land of spanning ancient history, art, literature and vibrant culture. The country experiences wide diversity as its culture has been highly influenced by Chinese culture as well as that of the western European regions. The country has seen several ups and downs in its socio-economic environment including the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombarding. Japan adopted its revised constitution in the year 1947, and has consistently progressed to become one of the leading nations of the global economy in the twenty first century (Clements, 2010). The National Institute for Natural Sciences Japan, National Institute for multimedia education and National Institute for Information and communications technology, are the three esteemed national institutions selected for the study. This essay on the National Institutions and Human Resource Management (HRM) revolves around the HRM practices of three of the prominent National Institutions of Japan; and rightly identifies the unique influence s of the countrys national culture, institutions, ethics, and values influences on the HRM practices of these esteemed Institutions. The country of Japan has lately evolved as one of the progressive countries of the Asia-Pacific region making its economy as the 20th freest economy in the world as per the 2015 index (The Heritage Foundation, 2015). The Historical foundations of Japan although rich and vibrant have been deeply affected by the two-decade economic slump, which is the key reason for the japans economy operating far below its actual potential. The social behavior of the population has always been hardworking and consistently striving for coming up with innovations. This country is rich in talented and hardworking skilled manpower resources that are positively influencing the HRM policies of the leading national institutions of the country. The ancient Japanese philosophy of managing its human resources is all about considering and treating its employees above a mere factor of production. Treating the human resources as member of a family (organization), has been ingrained in the national culture and ethnicity of Japan. However the deep economic crises suffered by the nation, out rightly diluted the traditional Japanese HRM concepts in several western cultured modern organizations. Some of the national institutions of the country however, are observed to have a great influence of Japanese culture, traditions, values, ethics and human relations practices even in the current century. The National Institute for Natural Sciences (NINS) is one of the four national research institutions in Japan that has independent administrative functions. The Human resources of this institution have many times collaborated its activities with other national research institutes in Japan to support international research projects (NINS website, 2015). The ethics, liberal values and equality promoting cultural influences of Japans national heritage have positively influenced the HRM practices and policies of this organization. NINS takes consistent effort in maintain gender equality in its recruitment and retention policies of the Institution. The institution has also incorporated the plan for promotion of gender equality in the medium term goals of the organization. Respect for People is one of the prominent concepts imbibed in the Japanese cultural and ethnicity, that has been reflected in the work policies of the modern Japanese institutions like that of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Pudelko and Harzing, 2009). The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, is an independent administrative institution that has staff and employees who are specialized in the field of information and communications technology. The Institution strives a lot to establish comfortable work life balance policies for its human resources by establishing adequate child care leave and family care leave systems (NICT, 2015). The National Institute of multimedia education (NIME) was established in the year 1978, with an objective conducting research and development on contents and methods of university education, predominantly using the broadcasting medium. The most of the staff recruited by NIME is from technical background that are been given equal opportunities by the institution to participate in its new projects and ventures of providing innovation in broadcasting of education services. The Percentage of women employment and maintenance of healthy male-female ratio in the organization was always a prominent aspect of recruitment function of HR. The incentives disbursed by the Organization were also shared by teams, instead of giving it to single individual employee (Center of ICT and Distance Education, Japan, 2011). Overall the organization depicts a one family work culture that is reflection of the ancient Japanese HR cultural practices. References Center of ICT and Distance Education, Japan (2011). Vicissitudes of National Institute of Multimedia Education. , Retrieved on February 7th 2015, from https://siteresources.worldbank.org/EDUCATION/Resources/278200-1289345265576/1101_006_Kato_ppt_Japan.pdf Clements, Jonathan (2010). 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