2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A Historical Study on the Relationships Between the Eeducational Background and the Career Development of the Employees in Modern Japan

Research Project

Project/Area Number	19530316
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Economic history
Research Institution	Surugadai University
Principal Investigator	ICHIHARA Hiroshi Surugadai University, 経済学部, 教授 (30168322)
Project Period (FY)	2007 – 2009
Keywords	人事管理 / 労働史 / 技術者教育 / 経営史 / 経済史 / 能力開発 / 技術形成
Research Abstract	The Career date of the technical staffs who had been employed by the leading companies in ship building, steel and electrical machinery industries was collected and analyzed in conjunction with the development of the personnel administrations. This research has make it clear that the technical staffs who were trained in the tertiary technical education and who would introduce the theoretical knowledge of engineering from western countries as well as the employees who would utilize the knowledge on engineering in shop floor and direct the operatives had contributed to the development of Japanese industries greatly and that the latter were promoted to the company staffs by virtue of the technical knowledge they had acquired through the experiments in shop floor and in-house educations.