TheVoiceOfJoyce. Japanese businesses are 1000 yrs old. Their values are passing the baton from one generation to the next. American businesses once cared about their employees too! From Ford & Pfizer I learned the value of ideas. Each had employee incentive programs and paid fairly. The Family businesses I knew , including my own, kept paying employees during hard times. Keeping good labor , was like staying with family, the relationship has to be maintained .