The Right Person for the Right Position : Managing Personnel Transfers to Increase Employee Self-Reliance

武石 恵美子, TAKEISHI Emiko

doi:10.15002/00022435

In Japanese firms, personnel transfers and human resource development are organizationally driven, with the strong involvement of human resource departments. This implies that, as effective means of human resource development, organizations identify whom to deploy and where. However, with the external environment making it impossible to predict business developments, it is challenging to perceive the direction of human resource development. The present study considers the management of personnel transfers, which have conventionally been handled by human resource departments in a centralized manner, and the related issues of human resource development. In particular, a questionnaire survey was conducted to examine the issue of the relation between weaker leadership by the human resources department in exchange for self-selection in personnel transfer management and individually planned human resource development; the survey was analyzed from the standpoint that such self-selection and individual planning may be related to individual career assessment and self-reliant career awareness and behavior. The study revealed two points: first, there is a strong reciprocal relation between career assessment such as career satisfaction and self-reliant career awareness and behavior; self-reliant thinking and behavior with regard to oneʼs career increases career satisfaction. Second, a human resource management system where workers can voluntarily take the initiative for personnel transfers and the development of their capabilities increases their intrinsic career satisfaction and self-reliant career awareness and promotes self-reliant career behavior. Based on the analysis results above, adding the element of individual choice to organizational selection will be critical to having the right person in the right place in the future.

The Right Person for the Right Position : Managing Personnel Transfers to Increase Employee Self-Reliance

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