Workforce Competitiveness and Productivity: Finding the Japan Solution

Date: Thursday, April 26, 2018
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Venue: Roppongi Hills Club, Clubroom II & III
Speaker: Yumiko Murakami, Head of the OECD Japan Center
Hosting Committees: Independent Business Committee, Human Resource Management Committee, Sales Development Committee, Women in Business Committee
Member Fee: 4,800
Guest Fee: 8,200
Meal: Plated Lunch Course
Registration/Cancellation Deadline: Monday, April 23, 12:00

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Event Overview:

How can workforce competitiveness and productivity be further developed in the Japanese cultural context? Technology and innovation provide new opportunities in the workplace, but will they further enhance productivity in Japan? Can Japanese government policies create an environment that balances increased competitiveness and productivity in solidarity with protections for workers?

What can your company do to boost the competitiveness in these circumstances?
 
Balancing these interests is an issue not only for Japan. Prominent economists and organizations globally, including the OECD, are activity challenging one another to find answers.
 
After providing an overview of recent findings, Ms. Yumiko Murakami, head of the OECD Japan Centre and former Managing Director at Goldman Sachs in New York, will pull away from the data and address questions concerning what workplace competitiveness and productivity may look like in a future Japan. On this very issue, she wrote an op-ed column in the Japan Times, March 8, 2018. To view the article, click here.

Please join us as Ms. Murakami shares some of the latest data, thoughts and directions on Workforce Competitiveness and Productivity in Japan.

Steven Bleistein, Thomas Shockley, Co-Chairs
Annie Chang, Mary Nishikawa, Vice Chairs
ACCJ Independent Business Committee

​Ginger Griggs, Roy Tomizawa, Co-Chairs

Yoko Yugo, Yumiko Ohta, Vice Chairs
ACCJ Human Resource Management Committee

Carlo La Porta, Thomas Shockley, Eric Wedemeyer, Co-Chairs
Reiko Osa, Kjell Yadon, Vice Chairs
ACCJ Sales Development Committee

Ryann Thomas, Chair
Elizabeth Handover, Deborah Hayden, Jiana Leung, Tomoka Miho, Makiko Tachimori (Fukui), Sayaka Takahashi, Yoshiko Zoet-Suzuki, Zane Zumbahlen, Vice Chairs
ACCJ Women in Business Committee

NOTE 1: This presentation is ON THE RECORD with the Q&A Portion OFF THE RECORD.

NOTE 2: If you cancel after the stated deadline, the full meeting fee will be charged to your account. Sorry, no substitutions or walk-ins.

NOTE 3:  If you are driving to Tokyo American Club, please inform the ACCJ in advance as arrangements must be made and a 1,700 yen parking fee will apply.