A Study on the Transfer of Reduction in the Working Hours from Japan to Taiwan

However, besides the flexibilization of working hour arrangement policy, it is little known about the strategies to help individual firms reducing their working hours. This paper attempts to use the concepts of change management to establish the conceptual model of the strategies for reduction of working hours in Japanese firms.

We took the employee of bank industry as investigate samples to test the Japanese model in Taiwan. After analyzing datum with SEM, we found the Japanese model could not perfectly fit with the datum gathered in Taiwan. The strategies to raise labor productivity may be transferred more successfully than those to maintain the organizational commitment as we guessed in advanced.