The Reconstruction of the Japanese Business Ethics

日本经济伦理的主要渊源可以追溯到德川时代的武士道。武士道思想对商人的心态和行为产生了深刻的影响。有人认为。商人应该像武士一样行事。例如，雇员对店主的忠诚度被视为最高优先事项。雇主是家长，雇员的人权往往被忽视。另一方面，家长式的管理方式将员工视为准家庭成员，并保证他们长期就业。我们应该学习家长式管理的优点，以在全球市场上具有竞争力。本文采用问卷调查的方法对企业伦理氛围的现状进行了调查。我们收到了79封回信。重要的发现是，大约80%的受访者支持举报。他们回答说，如果在办公室里发现这种违法行为，他们会告发雇用他们的公司。与美国的情况相比，女性雇员的待遇并没有显示出进步。根据这项调查，我们可以有把握地得出结论，日本的商业道德已经得到改善。但是，商人们对人权有些轻视，日本盛行所谓“金钱至上”的态度。因此，我们或许必须学习江户时代的伦理，将员工视为重要资产。近江商人的营销策略对今天的商人来说仍然是一个很好的模式。他们把卖方、买方和社区作为重要的利益攸关方来照顾。他们是企业社会责任的先行者。

The main origin of business ethics in Japan can be found in the Bushido of the Feudalistic Tokugawa Era. The Bushido ideology exerted profound influence on the mentality and behavior of the merchant. It was considered that. Merchants should act like the Samurai. For example, employees' loyalty to the owner of the shop was considered as having highest priority. The employers were patriarch and the human rights of employees were often ignored. On the other hand paternalistic way of management treated employees as quasi-family members and guaranteed them long term employment. We should learn the merit of the paternalistic management to be competitive on the global market. We made a questionnaire to survey as to the present ethical climate of corporations. We got 79 returns. The important finding is that about 80% of respondents support the whistle blowing. They answered that if they found the illegal act in the office, they would whistle blow the corporations which employ them.The treatment of women employees has not shown progressed as compared with the case of U.S.A. Based on this survey we can safely conclude that the business ethics in Japan has been improved, but business persons somewhat make light of the human right and that so-called "money is all" attitude prevails in Japan. Hence we must perhaps learn from the ethics of the Edo period where employees were regarded as an important asset. The marketing strategy of Omi merchants can still be regarded as a good model to business persons today. They took care of the sellers, buyers and the community as important stakeholders. They ware the forerunners in regards as corporate social responsibility.