ATTITUDES TO WORK IN JAPAN AND THE WEST

This article reports the results from a number of international studie s on attitudes to work. Among other features it reveals that: (1) Japa nese employees place more value on their jobs than employees in other countries. This difference, it seems, is not due to the variations in social values, but to differences in training and in organizational cu ltures. (2) Surprisingly, German employees seem to place less value on work than employees in some other countries.