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  • This study aims to clarify how the meaning of work has changed for the Japanese over the past twenty years by examining the data of a cross-national comparison between developed countries. Using data from the World Values Survey and the International Social Survey Programme, it focuses on a number of indicators that include work centrality, employment commitment, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction, and summarizes the characteristics of work values and work attitudes as follows.(1) For the Japanese, work centrality was extremely high compared to other countries until the early 1980s but subsequently declined. In recent years, Japan’s Absolute Work Centrality has ranked around the middle among developed countries, while its Relative Work Centrality has been slightly low.(2) Employment commitment in Japan was high in the 1990s in terms of both financial/instrumental work orientation and non-financial work orientation. However, in the 2010s, financial/instrumental work orientation remained consistently high but non-financial work orientation fell markedly.(3) Looking at organizational commitment, consistently strong willingness to stay (low inclination to change employment) was observed in Japan, despite weakness in terms of wanting to make efforts for the organization. Job satisfaction has been consistently extremely low, and fell even further in the 2010s. And (4), the Japanese do not have a particularly diligent work ethic, and they show a strong tendency to stress the comfort of workplace relationships as a condition of work. The study draws the conclusion that work is no longer as central to people's lives as it once was; that the fulfillment that comes from working, which was low to begin with, has fallen even further; and that there is a growing tendency to accept that “a job is a way of earning money” as people have more difficulty finding positive meaning in work. This represents a change not seen in other developed countries. Indeed, it can be said that the intrinsic value of work has become diluted for the Japanese people in the past twenty years. (xsd:string)
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