A Study on Language Strategy and Organizational Competence in the Globalization of Japanese Companies.

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23530466
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Business administration
• Research Institution: Shiga University
• Principal Investigator: SAWAKI Shoko 滋賀大学, 経済学部, 教授 (40301824)
• Research Collaborator: YOON Sok-nim 韓国世宗大学, 講師
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 日本企業の言語戦略 / グローバル人事 / 英語と組織能力 / グローバル・タレント・マネジメント / コア・コンピタンスの変化 / 国際ビジネスコミュニケーション能力 / 韓国企業の英語戦略 / 言語コスト

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This issue was investigated in terms of English as the official language and Organizational competence in Japanese companies. The questionnaire item was constructed based on the influence of Japanese Human Resource Management (HRM) system from "Englishnaization”of the Japanese companies.
The result showed that the most of employees recognized that organizational competence and English-ability had a positive correlation, but official　language English caused high anxiety at the level of the individual. From the case of the company, "Englishnaization” impact on Japanese taditional HRM system, seniority system, life time commitment and so on. Moreover, policy of the domestic global personnel required promoted the global talent management by the global database system, and these personnel affairs are transformed with the affinity of English.

Free Research Field

人的資源管理