Concerning other relationships between headquarters human resources
departments and their subsidiaries, the directions from the headquarters human
resources departments in Japan to the subsidiaries in Asia are fairly few and
limited. For example, the J4 firm only requests headcount reports on the number
of all employees and managers’ names from the JS4 subsidiary in Hong Kong.
Many subsidiaries send only monthly human resource report to their parent firms.
Many of the subsidiaries do not have periodical human resources meetings among
subsidiaries in Asia. Although the J3 and J6 firms have meetings among
subsidiaries in Asia periodically, the actual information sharing on human
resources management is limited.