It does this through the promise of lifetime employment, through clearly demarcated promotion based on seniority, and through well-defined hierarchies of decision making.

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In 2007 public sector employers will have to ensure equality in employment practices like recruitment, promotion and training as well as in the delivery of services.

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Seniority promotion, the lifetime employment system and the dead hand of Japanese corporate bureaucracy are all anathema to the free-wheeling stock-option culture that attracts Chinese businessmen these days.

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The developers will also fund the employment of two countryside rangers for the "promotion, payment and management" of the Southern Upland Way over the 25 years the wind farm is operational.

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