1999 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

The formation and change of the capability-based qualification system in Japanese human resource management

Research Project

Project/Area Number	09630030
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	経済政策(含経済事情)
Research Institution	Saitama University
Principal Investigator	OGASAWARA Koichi Professor, Department of Economics, Saitama University, 経済学部, 教授 (30204051)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	OKI Eiichi Senior Researcher, HUman Resource Development Section, Japan Institute of Labour, 研究所, 副主任研究員 HAYASHI Hiroki Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Hitotsubashi University, 社会学部, 教授 (70180974) SATO Hiroki Professor, Institute of Social Science, Tokyo University, 社会科学研究所, 教授 (60162468)
Project Period (FY)	1997 – 1999
Keywords	capability based qualification system / personnel management total system / ability orientated management / Matsushita electronics / Mitsubishi electronics / NKK / Shinn-nihon Steel / 日本鋼管
Research Abstract	The research is a historical study on the formation and change of the core human resource management system to the Japanese big-businesses, Shokunou Shikakui Seido or the capability based qualification system, which followed Nikkeiren's grand agenda for the ability orientated management in 1969, forwarded to be the prevailed core human resource management system during the decade after the first oil crisis, and is currently under reviewed in the wave of the shift towards 'result based wage system'.