Work and Pay in the United States and Japan. (book reviews)

By Clair Brown, Yoshifumi Nakata, Michael Reich, and Lloyd Ulman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. 256 pp. ISBN 0-19511521-X, $35.00 (cloth).

Clair Brown et al. have written an excellent and up-to-date comparative study of industrial relations and human resource (HR) management in the United States and Japan. Their study begins by defining two types of HR systems, which they call SET (for security, employee involvement, and training) and JAM (for job classification, adversarial relations, and minimal training), that represent systems most commonly associated with Japan and the ...

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