2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A Study on Situations and Issues of Job-based Pay Systems - A Case of a Foreign-Affiliated Company in Japan

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20730347
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Sociology
Research Institution	J. F. Oberlin University
Principal Investigator	ONIMARU Tomoko J. F. Oberlin University, 経済・経営学系, 准教授 (00325557)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2009
Keywords	産業 / 労働 / 余暇 / 賃金
Research Abstract	In recent years, job-based pay systems have attracted attention from employers, employees and also form researchers as possible alternatives seniority-based pay system. However, since job-based pay systems have various meanings, we should develop common understandings about the job-based pay systems in advance of the arguments about positives and negatives. This is a research about the response of employees in relation with a case study of a foreign-affiliated company that has adopted job-based pay systems from the 1960s. It suggests that the forms of job analysis and job evaluation are not enough factors for employees to accept the pay systems as fair and transparent ways. We should note that employees' commitments are influenced by the openness and the fairness of the processes in which his/her compensation is determined.