11 Jan 2011

JMAC’s consultant Tetsuji Saikawa, Kevin Plastow, and Sophie Lee provided several seminars and workshops in AOTS’s new program “Role of Executives for Better Industrial Relations(IR)” from 12 January to 1 February 2011 in Yokohama, Japan.

27 company executives and senior managers of IR/HRM visited Japan from 17 countries in Asia-Pacific/South America to take part in this program.

The program provided opportunities to share issues and recent changes in management practices in response to the global economic development, role of executives for better industrial relations (IR), various management approaches with cooperation of both labor and management implemented by Japanese companies and formulation of management model applying to the globalization.

The participants are expected to apply some of the lessons learned during the program to the issues of their own organizations or to the wider society in the home countries after the program.