Cambridge Scholars Publishing Made for Japan: Introducing the Japanese Job Descriptive Index

In 2011, for the first time, the famous Job Descriptive Index (JDI) family of job satisfaction surveys were translated into Japanese by a team of four esteemed Japanese university professors. This book describes the forward-back translation of the surveys and the potential future of the JDI surveys in Japan once they have been validated. Any multinational Japanese company is herewith invited to participate in the validation of the surveys by offering a survey sample of both its Japan-based and USA-based employees. Once the surveys are validated in Japanese, they will be considered legitimate international surveys and a powerful new scientific set of tools will be available for use in Japan. About the Author Gregory Gerard Greer is a graduate of George Mason University, USA, and the Royal Society of Arts/Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (RSA/CELTA) course at the University of Cambridge. After completion of RSA/CELTA, he was accepted for the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme and sent to Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan. After JET, he was hired by one of the current “Big Four” Japanese law firms in Tokyo, Japan, Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu, where he worked as a Rewriter. He is now working as a Technical Writer in the Washington, D.C., USA, metropolitan area.