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23rd-Jun-2008 03:06 am - Mielke Sky @ Gaia.. now I've gone and wasted ALL my time.
Soul Eater - Kidd
31st-May-2008 12:43 am - The Japanese Corporate Model (Sociology)
firo - baccano
Because I am a dork, and have worked in both Japan and Canada... I find this interesting. (from my Sociology text-website) Oh the stories that could go with it.. oh the stories I could tell.



VI. The Japanese Corporate Model

A. The Japanese production technique is often referred to as "lean production." Lean production uses a just-in-time (JIT) strategy to reduce the need for large warehouses and workstations. Lean production relies on flexible work assignments and a strategy of "kaizen," or continuous improvement, which may result in job elimination and work intensification. This model differs in at least five ways from the North American system:
1. Hiring and promotion: The Japanese model features a team approach; a starting cohort of workers gets the same salary, is rotated through the organization, and develops intense loyalty to one another and to the organization. In the North American model, employees are hired on the basis of what the individual can contribute; the emphasis is on competition, and an individual's loyalty is to the individual himself or herself, not to the company.

2. Lifetime security: The Japanese model takes lifetime security for granted; the company is loyal to the employee, and expects the employee to be loyal to the company. In the North American model, lifetime security is unusual; continued employment is based on good and/or bad economic conditions, and workers are expected to look out for themselves.

3. Almost total involvement: Work is like a marriage in Japan, in that the company and the employee are committed to each other. In North America, the work relationship is highly specific; fulfill your job obligations and the rest of your time is your private life, separated from the firm.

4. Broad training: In Japan, workers move from one job to another within the corporation. In North America, employees are expected to perform one job well and then be promoted to a job with more responsibility.

5. Decision-making by consensus: In Japan, decision-making occurs after lengthy deliberations in which each person to be affected by a decision is included in the process. In North America, the individual responsible for the unit does as much consulting as she or he thinks necessary and then makes the decision.
B. Research on Japanese corporations suggests that the Japanese corporate model fails to adequately reflect the reality of contemporary Japanese corporate life.
22nd-Jan-2008 01:30 pm - no more hiatus
Bakumatsu - You - Rev
I'm back. I think.

Well, LJ, my dear old friend... where shall we go from here?
31st-Dec-2007 08:00 pm
Soul Eater - Kidd
Hiatus.

Cause ...
25th-Dec-2007 03:41 pm - xmas day
Hyde
~Merry Christmas~

I hope your day is filled with magic and laughter, if you celebrate the day or not.



&
Higurashi ended, but there is going to be a third season! And the live action movie! YAY! (but what will it be like? it felt like an end to an end...)
9th-Nov-2007 04:47 pm - sai lovin
Sai - TUMMY



Sai!!♥♥♥♥


hmm.. that's all.

edit: no. it's not...

Tybalt!!!! ♥ Go and spank Romeo around some more. XD
6th-Nov-2007 11:12 pm - shiteru ka
Soul Eater - Kidd
Do you know this man? I have an urge to know.




(sorry - image with no cut.. but I don't do it often.. you still love me, right?)

FRICK I AM SO BORED AND DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! (although I have things to do.. i'm lazy too)
24th-Oct-2007 10:50 pm - breaking out the sketchbook~
Sasuke ?
And while I'm at it.. Sasuke was on the back of Sai.. which.. I'm talking about my drawings, but you can take it any way you want. 347

Sasuke.. the sketch of his pretty face )

I have several more sketches.. I could do this for a while. Well, I need to be quiet and the scanner is not in my room so this is it for now. Tomorrow - the boyz of Haruhi appear?!?!

Maybe now I'll draw. I have a few things to do:

  • finish iollan for [info]myth720 the hair is my bane

  • Dark for Andy

  • katana girl for Lisa

  • Zoro for Yuichi

  • interests pic for [info]bastaile

  • and.... the doujinshi project


I've probably forgotten a bunch, cause I'm bad like that. Anything before Japan has been erased from my mind and I'm not prepared to look for it.
24th-Oct-2007 10:36 pm - Sai speaks!
Sai - porn star
Satoshi Hino is our new Sai!~
Wiki Sai
MAL info
sample and japanese site

my scetch of Sai from like.. march )
19th-Oct-2007 06:59 am - Sai,
Sai - porn star
I join thee in the crazed excitement, amusement and sheer awe of that which is the new NARUTO OP/ED.

SAI! SAI WE LOVE YOU!! Can I have your autograph? signed 'with chinpo love, Sai.' He's going to make it big with pin-up pictures like that. The gay Naruto community is ready to welcome you to their penis loving world, Sai! Come out of the manga closet and on to the screen. Nekkid tummy and all! Wow, he's such a poser. & <3 his ed comments!! hehe.. little brat. XD

Then we have nekkid Sasuke with his... snake crucifiction. I was disturbed by the implications of it.. happy by the nudity/sexyness of it, but mostly amused and baffled by it. srsly, ftw. O_o

OP & ED, if you haven't seen it yet. Tho I think everyone has... LJ explody.

..ps, the actual songs pretty well suck ass.
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