A Hypothesis about Lukewarm Feeling in Japanese Firms

• TAKAHASHI Nobuo

  Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo

抄録

Japanese companies often criticize themselves on their own “nurumayu [lukewarm] nature.” Takahashi (1989) states that, in reality, however, the lukewarm feeling felt by organization members can be explained through the effective temperature hypothesis. The organization's propensity to change as a system is measured as system temperature, while the member's propensity to change as an organization person is measured as body temperature. The lukewarm feeling that the member feels can be explained using effective temperature, which is defined as the system temperature minus the body temperature. The effective temperature hypothesis was tested using the JPC Survey conducted every year from 1990 to 2000, where N = 10,356. The results show the coefficient of determination of 0.9886 with a surprisingly neat straight line, demonstrating a direct relationship wherein the lukewarm feeling ratio drops as the effective temperature rises. This paper also shows the possibility that the lukewarm feeling and effective temperature are leading indicators of the economic recession.

収録刊行物

• Annals of Business Administrative Science

  Annals of Business Administrative Science 12 (5), 237-250, 2013

  特定非営利活動法人 グローバルビジネスリサーチセンター

キーワード

• nurumayu
• lukewarm feeling
• thermometer
• organizational climate
• organizational culture
• leading economic indicator

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390282680398417024
• NII論文ID: 130003388427
• DOI: 10.7880/abas.12.237
• ISSN: 13474456
• ISSN: 13474464
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/abas/12/5/12_237/_pdf
• 本文言語コード: en
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