The Role of Industrial Unions in Conflicts of Oversea Subsidiaries

1. (1)根据对工会负责人的采访，海外子公司发生冲突的主要原因是新上任的管理者不尊重工会与前任管理者之间关于产业关系的惯例和非正式协议。(2)新经理不能或不愿了解海外子公司的思维方式。他必须提高子公司的生产率，所以他忽略了一些似乎不利于高生产率的习俗。(3)管理中最重要的因素是管理层和员工之间的相互理解。日本的工会必须在管理层选择新任命的管理人员时拥有发言权。

1. The Main Reason of Conflicts(1) According to interviews with trade union officers, the main reason of conflicts in oversea subsidiaries is that a newly assigned manager does not respect customs and informal agreements concerning industrial relations between the trade union and the former manager.(2) The new manager cannot and/or does not want to understand the way of thinking in the oversea subsidiaries. He must improve productivity of the subsidiary, so he ignores some customs which seem to be against the high productivity.(3) The most important element of the management is mutual understanding between management and employees.2. Trade union in Japan must have a voice in management's selection of newly assigned managers.