Human Resource Management in Aging Societies Perspectives from Japan and Germany

In recent years, Japan and Germany have been facing very similar challenges, namely aging populations, changing employment structures, and globalization. Both countries are in a number of respects more socially and politically regulated and in this sense more liberal than the Anglo-American economies. This book is an edited collection of papers exploring the demographic challenges for human resource management and labour market policies in Germany and Japan. The volume will concentrate on the type of problems aging poses for human resource management practices and labour market policies, and how public and company policies in both countries deal with these challenges.

HAROLD CONRAD is Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Studies. His main areas of research are Japanese social and labourn market policies and human resource management

VIKTORIA HEINDORF is a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Business, University of Munich. Her main areas of interest include human resource management and labor markets, with an emphasis on Japan and Germany

FRANZ WALDENBERGER is Professor for Japanese Economy at the Japan Center and the Faculty of Business of Munich University. His main areas of interest include comparative analysis of economic systems with focus on Japan and Germany