Japanese-style management
Refers to a set of traditional Japanese business practices, often including lifetime employment, seniority-based promotion, and enterprise unions. Used in discussions of business culture and economics.
Lifetime employment and seniority-based promotion are cited as characteristics of Japanese-style management.
There are cases where overseas companies adopt Japanese-style management.
Compound of 日本的 (Japanese-style) and 経営 (management). The term became common in post-war economic discourse.