雇用多様化の社会的帰結 : 雇用問題の経営社会学的考察
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This article argues that the diversification of employment, which is widely appearing in the Japanese labor market today, may lead to serious social consequences, as far as it happens due to the technical and economical needs of a corporation. A sociological perspective here expresses social relations, especially the aspect of spontaneous cooperation. From a sociological perspective, diversified employment might have following two undesirable consequences. First, diversification of work and employment means that the marketability penetrates into every social sector-medical care, welfare or education etc.. Systematization of every social sector and the dominant idea of marketability make society rationalize excessively, and human life will lose the sense of creation and depend entirely on the principle of demand and supply in the market, while society will be individualized more and more. Secondly, diverse employment relations and flexible work styles segment the working life and destroy the permanent employment as a norm, and the community of workers in the workplaces will be divided. The collapse of community relations in the workplaces requires social reintegration of workers. "Pay for performance", which is gradually introduced by Japanese management as a personnel system for reorganizing workers, aims not at the social integration, but at the technical and economical rationalization of workplaces and working life. It may also create individualistic social relations in work-places. Although the diversity or flexibility of employment relations, workplaces and work styles is significant for workers, it may lead to one-dimensional labor society, where only the jobs with payment have social values and the voluntarism is less valuable. In such society, the corporate activity will decay, because the vitality of society decreases markedly and the management cannot expect the voluntary cooperation among workers. Both autonomy and cooperation of individuals in the social and working life are essential for the vitality of corporation and society.
- 日本経営学会の論文
- 2003-09-10