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Overview
of Results of the 6th Survey on Changes in the Japanese Personnel
System
(January 17, 2003) |
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JPC-SED has been conducting a series of surveys on changes
in the Japanese personnel system, targeting major companies
as subjects. The 6th survey was conducted this year (valid
responses received from 303 companies; response rate 11.9%).
The following is an overview of the findings. |
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Over 40% of the companies surveyed have already installed
the annual salary system |
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The introduction
of an annual salary system had been steadily increasing over
the years, and reached 40.9% in this survey (34.8% in 2001
survey). |
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A breakdown by
industry shows a high rate of introduction in the manufacturing
sector, especially in steel works (47.1%), machinery (46.2%),
precision machinery (41.2%), and electrical equipment (40.0%),
and in tertiary industries such as wholesale and retail trade
(44.7%) and finance (30.4%). |
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Approximately 30% of companies value the process of achieving
results |
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Companies are
now gradually tending to appraise not only results per se,
but also the process by which the results are achieved. The
survey indicated that more than 40% of companies, accounting
for the largest percentage, regard processes as merely supplementary
factors for evaluation. However, approximately 30% responded
that they value results and process at about the same level.
This tendency was more conspicuous in companies with larger
numbers of employees. |
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The introduction of competency assessment is increasing yearly |
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Competency assessment
is a new tool for human resources development and evaluation
that is gaining widespread attention. It was adopted at a
rate of 5.7% in 1999, but has steadily increased each year
to 15.8% in this year’s survey. |
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Progress is being made in the establishment of a support system
for career development |
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An in-house staff
recruitment system was first introduced in the latter half
of the 1990s as a system to support employees’ self-motivated
career development by offering them opportunities to work
in the area of their choosing. Today, this system is implemented
in about 30% of the companies. |
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Career counseling,
another system that supports career development, is implemented
by 7.9% of all companies. However, in terms of companies with
more than 5,000 employees, close to 30% offered this system.
This implies that larger companies have higher implementation
rates. |
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Diversifying recruitment systems |
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Recruitment systems
are becoming increasingly diversified. Many more companies
are now introducing year-round recruitment, recruitment by
occupation, and the temp-to-hire system. The introduction
rate for internship programs is especially high, reaching
more than 40% (40.3%) for all companies, and close to 80%
(79.4%) in companies with more than 5,000 employees. |
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Over 20% of all
companies and almost 40% of tertiary industry companies have
a system for promoting part-time employees to regular employee
status. |
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