International comparative study on fair organizational management in Japanese companies in ASEAN

Abstract

When studying notions of fairness in the workplace, it is important to consider the point of views of employees and how what they believe to be fair or unfair might have negative impacts on the company as a whole. For instance, changes to the working hours, paying different wages to people in similar positions, or redundancies, might well affect the motivation of employees, leading to falls in effort, productivity, efficiency and general worker happiness. There has been a significant amount of research dedicated to understanding employee perceptions of fairness in the workplace. Such research falls under the general banner of organisational justice, where researchers attempt to understand how an employee's attitude and behaviour is affected by the behaviour of an organisation. Professor Ikuya Kano from the University of Hyogo has embarked on a three-year research project related to the theories of organisational justice. Kano is working alongside Katsunori Kaneko and is performing a comparative study between Japanese workers and local workers in ASEAN countries (Mainly Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam and Laos).