3. Human Resource Planning in the Japanese style of Management
Japanese style of management at least consists of 3 characteristics: lifetime employment system,
seniority waged-based system, and company based labour union. Most of them are dealing to the human
resource issues, especially for human resource planning. Design a Human Resource Planning is begun by
need analysis. What kind of workers will be needed for near future? Recruitment strategy should be
decided in order to increase company's effectiveness and efficiency. Training and promotion should be
planned in order to decrease unproductive human resource. Redundancy which is caused by unbalanced
condition between desired man-hours and potential man-hours becomes a serious problem particularly in