Thursday 28 July, 18.30h – 20.00h
Tomoki Sekiguchi, Osaka University
Diversity and Inclusion in the Japanese Workplace
Comments by
Sierk Horn, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Hendrik Meyer-Ohle, National University of Singapore

Tomoki Sekiguchi is professor of management at the Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University.
His research interests centre on individual behaviour in organizations, organizational justice,
person-environment fit, hiring decision-making, management fashion, and international and strategic
human resource management.

In his presentation he will report on a growing number of Japanese firms that are hiring non-
Japanese employees in their domestic workplace in order to promote uchi-naru kokusaika or internal
internationalisation of management. One major source of their recruits is international students who
have studied in Japanese universities, and some Japanese firms have also begun to recruit non-
Japanese employees from overseas universities. Despite this important trend, we still know little
about the experience of foreign employees in their daily work in Japan, such as possible
discrimination and communication problems when working with Japanese bosses and colleagues. In his
presentation, he will show the results of the survey administered to the foreign employees working
in the Japanese workplace, focusing on the causes of their perceived discrimination and its effect
on their attitudes and behaviours.

The presentation will be followed by comments from Sierk Horn and Hendrik Meyer-Ohle.

Sierk Horn is professor of the economy of Japan at Munich School of Management, LMU Munich. His
research focuses on the interplay of language, psychology, and business practices.

Hendrik Meyer-Ohle is associate professor in the Department of Japanese Studies at the National
University of Singapore and for the year 2016 also a visiting scholar at Waseda University. His
research focuses on human resource management as well as retailing and marketing by Japanese
companies in Japan and Southeast Asia.

After the presentation, there will be time for Q&A. The event will be held in English. It will be followed by a small reception. Admission is free; registration is required at mailto:forum@dijtokyo.org or
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