Corporate Japan's shift toward performance-based pay has been beset by difficulties.
Many employees used to the traditional seniority-based system claim performance assessments are unfair, while some employers feel workers tend to set themselves easy job targets in order to earn better evaluations.
Yet Koichi Yanashita, a former personnel chief and managing director of Takeda Chemical Industries Ltd., does not take a pessimistic view.
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