The purpose of this paper is to illuminate the overall features of the Japanese management\nand production systems transferred into the industries in Africa, in order to examine its\npossibility of contribution to economic development in Africa. The most remarkable finding\nis that the African culture and social environment would be more or less compatible to\nJapanese style HRM. ââ?¬â?¢Worksiteââ?¬â??orientedââ?¬â?? Japanese style management has been realized in\nvarious work practices not only at the local plants of Japanese firms but also of African firms\nunder some institutional restrictions, i.e. strong labor unions and European type rigid social\nframeworks. For Japanese companies that are thinking of the investment in Africa, we could\nclarify the environment of Africa might be familiar to the Japanese management and\nproduction systems. Simultaneously, for the governments of the countries in Africa, this\npaper suggests that the JMPS could be one of the effective methods to develop the economy\nof their countries. This is the first time research approach to the transferability of the Japanese\nmanagement and production systems based on the field research in Africa.
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