Reforming corporate governance and employment relations
Reforming corporate governance and employment relations
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2005
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Hiroshi Osano;Mami Kobayashi
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作者：
Hiroshi Osano;Mami Kobayashi
在讨论公司治理改革对公司与员工关系的影响之前，有必要明确公司治理的目标。在思考这个问题时，大众媒体等不认真地强调股东的利益，而一些学者同样不负责任地强调利益相关者的重要性，而忽视股东的利益。考虑到过度重视股东引发了美国最近一系列会计丑闻的论点，后一种说法具有说服力。然而，重视股东与其他利益相关者的长期利益不那么不一致，也增加了其作为公司治理基准的职能的透明度。因此，本文重视股东利益的长期性，将其作为确定公司治理长期目标的基准。本文在指出公司治理未来可能的方向以应对持续的外部变化的同时，旨在澄清哪种公司与员工的关系与这些变化相兼容。作为准备讨论的第一步，我们注意到日本经济面临的外部条件的重大变化，包括主要银行体系性质变化和交叉持股取消导致的金融体系转型；随着模块化和开放方式的演进，生产技术和组织的变革；人口变化，主要是年轻人减少和老年人口增加；以教育问题为代表的工人素质的变化；国际竞争加剧；以及频繁的企业丑闻。
Before discussing the impact that reform of corporate governance has on company-employee relations it is necessary to clarify the goal of corporate governance. When considering this question, the mass media and others unseriously place emphasis on the interests of shareholders, while some academics, equally ir responsibly, stress the importance of stakeholders and are dismissive of the interests of shareholders. The latter assertion gains persuasive power when remembering the argument that excessive importance placed on shareholders triggered a recent series of accounting scandals in the U.S. However, importance placed on shareholders is less inconsistent with the long-term interests of other stakeholders, and also increases the transparency of its function as a benchmark of corporate governance. Hence, this article attached long-term importance to shareholders’ interests as a benchmark in determining the long-term aims of corporate governance. This article, while noting possible future directions for corporate governance in reaction to ongoing external changes, aims to clarify which company-employee relationship is compatible with such changes. As a first step in preparing for the discussion, significant changes in external conditions faced by the Japanese economy are noted, including the transformation of the financial system consequent to changes in the nature of the main bank system and the unwinding of cross-shareholdings; the transformation of production technology and organization following the evolution of module and openness methods; demographic changes, mainly fewer young people and an increase in the elderly population; changes in the quality of workers as symbolized by educational problems; intensifying international competition; and frequent corporate scandals.