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Job satisfaction and confidence of Asian managers in Japanese MNCs
Get PDFThe present study aims to examine how job satisfaction rests on confidence in Asia. A total of 914 employees who participated in this study consisted of Japanese, Chinese, Hong Kong’s, Malaysian, and Thai managers who work as parent or host country nationals for a Japanese multinational corporation expanding Asian markets. This study initially confirmed that a level of each key variable: job satisfaction and confidence, significantly differed in those countries. As the entire managerial group, by controlling age, gender, tenure, past work experience, and management positions, results of regression analysis showed that confidence powerfully increased job satisfaction. Further, with regard to five different area groups, results also illustrated the strong effect of confidence on job satisfaction in each country. Consequently, the study results have led to a conclusion that this relational aspect between the two psychological variables tends to be universalistic rather than a culturally contextual specific phenomenon. Theoretical and practical implications will be discussed.departmental bulletin pape
Spatial Dimensions of Expenditure Inequality and the Role of Education in Indonesia: An Analysis of the 2008-2010 Susenas Panel
Get PDFBased on 2008–2010 Susenas panel data, this study analyzes expenditure inequality in Indonesia from spatial perspectives by using several inequality decomposition methods: decomposition of the Theil indices by population subgroups; decomposition of the Gini coefficient by expenditure components; and the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition. In the Theil decomposition, this study employs not only the conventional approach but also an alternative approach proposed by Elbers and others (2008). Our results show that a substantial portion of expenditure inequality is attributed to inequalities within urban and rural sectors. According to the alternative approach, however, the contribution of between-sector inequality increases conspicuously, suggesting that there are notable differences in the distribution of per capita household expenditures between the urban and rural sectors. Educational differences appear to have played an important role in urban inequality as well as urban-rural disparity. For both urban and rural households, expenditures on non-food items, including expenditure on education, serve to have increased total inequality.departmental bulletin pape
Bank Risk and Non-Interest Income Activities in the Indonesian Banking Industry
Get PDFThe recent trend of product diversification in the Indonesian banking industry underscores the importance of non-interest income activities. This study examines the relationship between product diversification and bank risk over the period of 2002-2008. Our analysis shows clear evidence that the effect of product diversification on bank risk depends highly on the bank's asset size. Specifically, the degree of product diversification is negatively associated with bank risk for small-sized banks. Conversely, the degree of product diversification is positively related to bank risk for large-sized banks. This finding suggests that deregulation encouraging banks to become more involved in non-traditional activities may have an adverse effect on the overall banking system where large-sized banks are playing a significant role in Indonesia.departmental bulletin pape
Networking Partner Selection and Its Impact on the Perceived Success of Collaboration
Get PDFScholars have emphasized networks as a new agenda or a necessary tool for solving public problems and research on networks have been actively conducted. However, little attention has been given to how collaboration partners are selected and activated. This question is critical when a networking partner is voluntarily chosen. To fill this gap in knowledge, this study proposes four possible scenarios for the selection of networking partners based on the intention to collaborate with a certain partner and the activation of collaboration with that partner. Results show that the scenario of not-intended-but-nonetheless-activated collaboration brings the highest increase in perceived success while the scenario of intended-and-activated collaboration results in the second highest among the four scenarios. However, it was also found that the scenario of not-intended-but-nonetheless-activated collaboration is less likely in the real world where public managers are asked to strategically find beneficial partner candidates and to achieve the activation of collaboration with those candidates. This study expects to promote understanding of the process of networking partner selection.departmental bulletin pape
Learning style and confidence: an empirical investigation of Japanese employees
Get PDFThis study aims to examine how learning styles relate to employees' confidence through a view of Kolb's experiential learning theory. For this aim, an empirical investigation was conducted using the sample of 201 Japanese employees who work for a Japanese multinational corporation. Results illustrated that the learning style group of acting orientation described a significantly higher level of job confidence than that of reflecting orientation, whereas the two groups of feeling and thinking orientation did not differ in job confidence levels. To confirm this result, by controlling socio-demographic variables such as gender, age, tenure, job functions, and positions, results of hierarchical regression also showed that action orientation employees exhibited higher confidence in their jobs than those with reflection orientation. This study would put a light on theoretical connection between learning styles and job confidence in business contexts. As a practical implication in organizational management, HR managers may need to propose that employees have to learn more through action orientation rather than reflection in order to enhance job confidence that will lead to better job performance.departmental bulletin pape
Planning under Correlated and Truncated Price and Demand Uncertainties
Get PDFThis paper presents a novel approach to handle refinery planning under correlated and truncated random demand and price uncertainties. To compute the expectation of plant revenue, which is the main difficulty for a planning problem under uncertainty, a bivariate normal distribution is used to describe demand and price. Formulae for revenue calculation under correlated and truncated price and demand are derived. It is found that the correlation and truncation of price and demand have major influences on plant net profit. A plan that ignores these factors can be far from optimal. The Type 2 service level or fill rate undercorrelated and truncated random price and demand is derived and efficiently calculated in this paper. Maximum plant net profit that satisfies certain fill rate target can thus be obtained. The proposed approach can be generally applied for modeling other chemical plants under uncertainty.departmental bulletin pape
日本語学習者は実際に能力が上がっているのか : Can-do-statementsによる調査
Get PDF国際大学日本語プログラムでは主として中級、上級コースの学生を対象に2010年よりCan-do-statements調査を行なっている。本稿では2010年からの過去2 年間の上級の学生の調査結果を分析し、学生の日本語能力の伸びを見た。その結果、上級３のコースは上級１のコースと比べて日本語能力に伸びが見られない、または逆転していて能力が下がっていること、一方上級6コスは上級３より日本語能力が確かに上がっているという結果になった。departmental bulletin pape
Evaluation of the Assistants to Teacher of Japanese (ATJ) Program in Victorian Schools, Australia
Get PDFGender-related topics are becoming increasingly popular in university courses in Japan, including those in English-medium content programs. This is at least in part due to the urgent need for gender equality in many areas of Japanese society such as political representation and labor rights protection. In this working paper, I introduce topics included in an interdisciplinary university program which prepares students for future careers in international cooperation. Students learn about various issues which are important for their future success in global contexts, and for this it is indispensable to discuss gender-related topics such as women's rights, LGBT issues, reproductive health, equal access to education, and more. Such innovative learning opportunities are a small but significant step forward for gender awareness and equality in Japan as well as for Japan's status in the international community. (This paper is written in preparation for the GALE Forum at the International JALT Conference 2016: Transformations in Gender Research and Learning.)departmental bulletin pape
Study of consumer attitudes towards connected reader devices in Japan based on the decomposed Theory of Planned Behavior
Get PDFSome of the most interesting developments within mobile and wireless technologies have evolved from an enhancement of our daily life; creating objects and technologies that we can consume to hopefully increase our quality of life. Lately, a new (mobile) convergence is underway globally with new embedded connected devices entering the markets such as the iPad, the Galaxy tablet and dedicated connected reader devices such as Kindle, Librie and the biblio Leaf SP02 launched by KDDI in Japan. The framework of this study focuses on developing a deeper understanding of the attitudes and purchase intentions of end users of eBook readers. To accomplish that objective, the decomposed model of the Theory of Planned Behavior has been used as a guideline. Based on this a survey was carried out with prospective users utilizing Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) dimensions such as attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control and behavioral intention. Structural equation modeling was used to estimate the maximum likelihood for these dimensions. Results showed that the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and the traditional form of TRA fit the data adequately. To the author's knowledge, this is the first known paper to deeply explore the cognitive constructs underlying purchase intentions of eBook readers.departmental bulletin pape
Learning style differences between Japan and Thailand: A case of Japanese multinationals
Get PDFWe compared various aspects of learning styles between Japan and Thailand through the lens of experiential learning theory. A total of 398 participants who work for Japanese multinational corporations were surveyed and examined with controlling age, gender, work experience periods, and hierarchical management positions. Results showed that the two country differencesignificantly impacted all learning style variables concerning a dialectical learning dimension of feeling and thinking, In the process of learning, for example, Japanese employees learned through more feeling and less thinking, whereas Thai employees learned equally applying the four learning modes of feeling, thinking, reflecting, and action. Although the learning style ofJapanese employees indicated diverging on average, the analysis of their learning style distribution revealed that accommodating was most dominated. Thai employees were categorized in accommodating learning style that was not so specialized at feeling and acting modes. Instead,they possessed balanced learning style as their distinctive characteristic. Based on those findings, we discussed theoretical and practical implications.departmental bulletin pape