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Engineers in Japan and Britain: Education, Training and Employment eBook
by Kevin McCormick
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Engineers in Japan and Britain: Education, Training and Employment Summary
| Engineers are a key occupational group in the transformation of the modern world. Contrasts between Japans economic miracle and Britain's relative economic decline have often been linked to differences in education, training and employment of engineers. Yet, such views have often rested on little more than colourful anecdotes and selective statistics. Using careful and systematic comparisons, Kevin McCormick locates the differences between rhetoric and reality to dismiss both the inflated claims of the 1980s and the excessive detraction of the 1990s with Japans prolonged recession. Starting from British engineers contribution to Japans first modern college of engineering, Kevin McCormick highlights the importance of several foreign engineering traditions as well as post-war industrial reforms. He demonstrates that Japans number of engineers have often been exaggerated, to the detriment of qualitative comparisons. The importance of such comparisons is underlined by considering company training in the wider context of the employment system. Whilst many predict changes in Japans education and training system, Engineers in Japan and Britain reveals the depth of institutional investments and why hype often runs ahead of practice. Three of the chapters in this book analyse the education, training and employment of R&D workers who are at the forefront of debates about change in human resource management. Drawing on a wide range of literature and direct involvement in several comparative and collaborative projects, with a variety of methods from case studies to interviews and surveys, Kevin McCormick presents accounts of past, present and future developments in the engineering professions of Japan and Britain. Professional engineers, engineering managers, industrial policy makers as well as students and researchers in human resource management, business studies and Asian studies will find this book an invaluable source of data and analysis which is not available elsewhere in the English language. |
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