出版社：Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training
摘要：Researches regarding the functionality of Japanese companies’ white-collar
employees career system having three features, (i) wide-range career devel-
opment, (ii) job performing ability-based grade system, and (iii) human re-
sources (HR) department involved in personnel transfers has been accumu-
lated mainly on the basis of intellectual skills. In other words, a
cause-and-effect relationship, “wide-range career development → obtained
intellectual skills → efficiency enhancement,” has been hypothesized and
borne out. This paper makes the concept of a new framework which is differ-
ent from intellectual skills, i.e., a cause-and-effect relationship “wide-range
career development → knowledge combination → value creation,” and advo-
cates a new descriptive principle of the functionality of Japanese-style career
system. According to the career tree analysis and interviews conducted on 28
senior managers of House Foods Corporation, “knowledge combination →
value creation” mechanism, with three patterns of “continuous role expan-
sion,” “add-on role” and “regeneration of the existing role,” have been found.
In addition, it has become evident that the HR department of the headquarters
which demonstrates its initiative in regular personnel transfers is deeply in-
volved in value creation
