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I mean, that should work as long as they are also good at identifying talent. There are plenty of Japanese people who are very good at their jobs, and being ra

by mbg721 4y ago

I mean, that should work as long as they are also good at identifying talent. There are plenty of Japanese people who are very good at their jobs, and being racist (if we're going to rely on pure pragmatism) doesn't in itself make management incompetent. The problem is that the line of thinking that makes racism sound like a good idea is one that also leads to other poor decisions.

spaceman_2020 4y ago
I suppose with their birthrates, that pool of Japanese talent is only going to shrink.
tlarkworthy 4y ago
No I think it is still bad in isolation as it's prone to group think and you lose the chance to exploit experience generated globally which may be unique and irreplaceable.
pm90 4y ago
Racism does actually restrict your competitiveness, theres been a bunch of studies done on this. Regardless of the availability of sufficiently skilled Japanese labor, humans are pretty non-fungible when it comes to specialized skills. Losing access to the worldwide pool of labor is just deliberately kneecapping their own companies.
- makeitdouble 4y ago
  You are right that it restricts competitiveness, but even before that, integrating people thinking different and from different backgrounds requires a level of flexibility and resilience that is probably missing from these entities. It’s not rare to see Japanese people looking for companies that recruit foreigners and “exotic” profiles, using that as a canary to signal a company that can deal with a range of issues, and won’t try to have them quit if they take a parental leave.
- mbg721 4y ago
  Humans are non-fungible, but despite the rhetoric, I don't think any company is actually hiring the best people they possibly could. There's so much noise in the hiring process to begin with, I have a hard time believing that racism is the one obstacle between the status-quo and paradise. More likely, there are a hundred things wrong with the hiring process, and racism is number 86.

by mbg721 4y ago

spaceman_2020 4y ago

I suppose with their birthrates, that pool of Japanese talent is only going to shrink.

tlarkworthy 4y ago

No I think it is still bad in isolation as it's prone to group think and you lose the chance to exploit experience generated globally which may be unique and irreplaceable.

pm90 4y ago

Racism does actually restrict your competitiveness, theres been a bunch of studies done on this. Regardless of the availability of sufficiently skilled Japanese labor, humans are pretty non-fungible when it comes to specialized skills. Losing access to the worldwide pool of labor is just deliberately kneecapping their own companies.

makeitdouble 4y ago
You are right that it restricts competitiveness, but even before that, integrating people thinking different and from different backgrounds requires a level of flexibility and resilience that is probably missing from these entities. It’s not rare to see Japanese people looking for companies that recruit foreigners and “exotic” profiles, using that as a canary to signal a company that can deal with a range of issues, and won’t try to have them quit if they take a parental leave.
mbg721 4y ago
Humans are non-fungible, but despite the rhetoric, I don't think any company is actually hiring the best people they possibly could. There's so much noise in the hiring process to begin with, I have a hard time believing that racism is the one obstacle between the status-quo and paradise. More likely, there are a hundred things wrong with the hiring process, and racism is number 86.