NHK-Japan to slash workforce by 10% over 3 years: (27-Jan-06) NHK, Japan's public broadcaster, has announced a significant cost-cutting plan that includes getting rid of 10 percent of its workforce over a three-year period beginning in 2006. The broadcaster released a three-year reform plan this week, with the goal being to streamline its operations and rebuild the public's trust. The broadcaster expects to implement the changes beginning this April. In addition to the proposal to cut about 1,200 jobs, the plan suggests: - Reducing the number of departments at NHK headquarters; - Introducing a performance-evaluation system for the President and the executive board; - Hiring more outsiders for management positions; and - Refocusing on NHK's strengths, including news reporting, disaster bulletins and region-specific broadcasts.
The plan emphasises maintaining the broadcaster's independence from the Japanese government and promoting stronger, more accountable self-governance. Founded in 1926 and modelled after the BBC, NHK derives much of its revenue from viewership fees paid by all Japanese residents who own a television set. More than one million households reportedly stopped paying the obligatory fee last year to protest against a number of NHK scandals since 2004, including embezzlement charges against a producer. (ABU Website) Best regards, MD. AZIZUL ALAM AL-AMIN RAJSHAHI, BANGLADESH ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2006 is out. Order yours from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059367/hardcoredxcom/ ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://arizona.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
