Impact of Process Design Capabilities on Skill Formation and Employment Management : a Case Study of a Large Washing Machine Factory

UMEZAKI Osamu, NAGUMO Chiaki

doi:10.24533/spls.7.2_119

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工程設計力が技能形成と雇用管理に与える影響 : 大型洗濯機工場の事例研究

Abstract

This study examines production in the machine industry and analyzes skill formation in the workplace by emphasizing "process design capabilities." First, this study confirms that standard production technicians become capable of using multiple machines after approximately 10 years of continuous work. However, if the focus is placed only on the skills associated with using machines, growth stops or degenerates after approximately 15 years of continuous work. Beyond this, the skills required are not those associated with using machines, but with designing processes. However, there exist fewer production technicians who master these skills. Designing new processes yields low-skilled routine work and offers work to workers whose skills have degenerated, or to non-regular workers. In other words, processes are designed in accordance with the existing distribution of skills and thus create a mutual correlation between skill distribution and process design. Viewed in the long-term, an increase in low-skilled routine work hinders the development of process design capabilities; hence, corporates disregard non-routine, difficult work for skill formation.

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Social Policy and Labor Studies

Social Policy and Labor Studies 7 (2), 119-131, 2015

Japan Association for Social Policy Studies

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CRID: 1390001206119201408

NII Article ID: 110010015369

DOI: 10.24533/spls.7.2_119

ISSN: 24332984; 18831850

Text Lang: ja

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