Abstract
I was in an international group composed of seven people from China, Sri Lanka, England and Germany. As a French student, it was a new experience for me to work with such a group. We decided to compare HR systems in two countries from which none of us come from. The idea of this presentation was to improve our knowledge by ourselves and we all wanted to play the game by getting in touch with HR systems that we did not know. We were also interested in comparing two models which are not similar. That's why in our presentation we chose to compare HR systems in the US and in Japan. Group work has been organized through six meetings in which everybody presents ideas and opinions. As we sometimes had some difficulties to understand each other, the group was led by the English people because they had a better background of HRM knowledge than all of us. As we were seven people in the group, we divided the presentation of each country in three parts: employment relationship, reward systems and training and development. We dealt with each part in pairs, comparing alternatively the US and Japan.
