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Nakagawa, Nami; Okano, Hitomi; Kyoba, Yuuichi; Yamada, Seiichiro; Suzuki, Hiroaki; Tsuda, Masaaki; Yano, Shingo; Makimura, Mizue; Watanabe, Kazuo; Yamamura, Shigeo – World Journal of Education, 2018
Purpose: The Japanese healthcare system has designated registered sales clerks to sell over-the-counter (OTC) drugs. Because of this, the AEON HAPYCOM Comprehensive Training Organization implemented an education program to train registered clerks in 2014. The program is unique; it consists of both lectures and hands-on workshop components. We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sales Occupations, Job Training, Pharmacy
Fournier, Christophe; Chéron, Emmanuel; Tanner, John F., Jr.; Bikanda, P. J.; Wise, Jorge A. – Journal of Marketing Education, 2014
The purpose of this research is to investigate the image of salespeople and of the selling function as perceived by business students across cultures. Of the several empirical investigations that exist in the sales literature, most are based on a single-country sample. This study extends previous knowledge on single-country perception of…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Sales Occupations, Stereotypes, Student Surveys
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Cook, Haruko Minegishi – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
This paper explores how referent honorifics contribute to identity construction on a Japanese TV shopping channel program. Drawing on Ochs' twostep model of indexicality (1993, 1996) and Agah's proposal (1993) that honorifics are not directly linked to social status but index a "relative position within events of discursive interaction"…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Japanese, Foreign Countries, Television
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. – 1989
An analysis of the service sector in five countries (France, Germany, Japan, Sweden, and the United States) was made through synthesis of earlier research on work patterns in the countries. Some of the findings and issues discovered concerned the following: (1) the heterogeneity of the service sector; (2) the progress of part-time work; (3)…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs, Employment Patterns