(Solution) 50S04 QUESTION 5 (AC 2.2) Employment and labour market traditions
Solution
The differences between the labour markets in the UK and Japan lie in employment and labour market traditions. These disparities define expectations regarding employment security, transparency as well as collective representation and impact on the functioning of the organisations in each country of employment
Employment security and Career path traditions
Japan is also known worldwide to have a culture of lifetime employment, where companies hire staff and have them serve their entire lives with a company and they are promoted based on seniority. Big companies like Mitsubishi, Toyota and Panasonic have traditionally had a graduate retention rate of over 90 percent (Toyota, 2025). They usually start with the company right after the university and stay with the same company and progress through the systems of junior-seniority promotion systems, as opposed to performance-based metrics.
In contrary, labour market expands in the UK, wherein employees, on average, switch employers every 35 years in order to evolve their careers. The pharmaceutical professionals in UK are used to work towards merit based promotions and individual based performance bonuses and tailor made development plans. An effective case in point is the prevalence of the performance-related pay (PRP) system in the UK, according to which the rise in salary is based on quantifiable outcomes (CIPD, 2022).
Unionism and Industrial Relations Traditions, Collective Voice
Japan has an enterprise union system where the unions are firms based and have an amicable relationship with management (Japan Focus, 2008). Industrial conflicts are also minimal accounting to less than 0.1 percent of the labour conflicts. Japanese unions emphasize on…….
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