Abstract
Thierry Ribault’s paper first develops along some case studies related to job segmentation in four retail formats. The author then asks what is the future of the Japanese model of human resource management? This question is asked in the perspective of traditional theories of job segmentation. The author highlights the diversity of flexible jobs observed in terms of working time and of social status of jobs, and defends the hypothesis that these observations present a challenge for existing segmentation theories, particularly the theory developed by Doeringer and Piore (1971). The author refers to another model of segmentation by Gadrey (1991), which he considers to be closer to his observations made in the retail sector in Japan. Gadrey’s original paper refers to flexible segmentation as characteristic of the service sector (or tertiary sector) employment systems, and Ribault defends his idea of a hyperflexible integrated segmentation.
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Tremblay, DG. (1999). Commentary. In: Dirks, D., Huchet, JF., Ribault, T. (eds) Japanese Management in the Low Growth Era. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58257-8_21
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