Understanding the future of global HR sometimes requires looking back. That is the focus of Chapter 3 of my book「グローバル企業のための新日本型人材マネジメントのすすめ」Global Lessons: A Page from Modern Japanese Human Resources Management.

In the first part of the book, I covered the current realities and challenges Japanese companies face when managing talent overseas.

Chapter 3 shifts the perspective. It looks at why revisiting Japan’s historical approach to people management still matters today, especially at a time when many companies are unsure how to evolve their HR systems.

Traditional Japanese HR practices supported decades of growth in the postwar period, yet many of these ideas are not well understood outside Japan. Even within Japanese companies, confidence in these practices has been shaken, partly due to cases where they were implemented in ways that did not match today’s business environment. As a result, some organisations are moving quickly toward Western-style HR models without fully analysing their current issues or the root causes behind them.

This chapter revisits the foundations of Japanese-style HR from the Meiji era onward and highlights what made these approaches effective at motivating employees and building strong organisations. The aim is not to return to the past but to identify the strengths worth carrying forward and to redesign them for a very different global context.

If you’re interested in this, you can find the book here:
https://lnkd.in/gt4VSvHa

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