Investigation and research on the asymmetry and stickiness of personnel information in the human resource management of Japanese companies

本研究旨在提炼出日本企业人力资源管理的演进型特征，并厘清其新兴流程与功能。当时的核心概念是组织模式的二元性原则，即具体的人力资源管理与信息系统的合理结合。具体的研究对象有以下四点：(1)包括曾经的传统日本式组织模式在当代发生的实际情况的衍生类型。(2)如果以日本式组织模式来看待变化，则检查其生成过程。(3)实际的组织模式考察了这种演变的原因。(4)提取出的日本型人力资源管理对财务绩效的作用进行了统计检验。通过案例研究和调查研究的结果表明：1)现代日本公司的功能性人力资源管理是“工作基数的激励制度”和“人事管理权的人事部门集中”相结合的形式。2)如果新的人力资源管理实行“继任计划”和“职业自主支持”，对绩效的解释力将进一步增加。从上述结果引出了人力资源管理“人员信息成本”这一源于信息不对称和粘性的新概念，它为人力资源管理的功能附加了一个条件。本研究获得了“日本式人力资源管理的演变，以解决人事信息的成本问题”这一知识。

The purpose of this research is to extract the new human resource management (HRM) characteristic of Japanese companies as an evolved type, and to clarify the emergent process and functionality. The key concept at that time is a duality principle in the organization modes which means a rational combination of specific HRM and information systems. Moreover, it is the costs of the personnel information which attaches a condition to the rationality in specific organization modes.The concrete research subject was the following four points.(1)Include the derived type for what has actually happened to the once traditional Japan type organization modes in the present age. (2)If variation is looked at by the Japan type organization modes, check the process of the generating. (3)Actual organization modes examines the reason which evolved such. (4)The extracted Japan type HRM checks statistically whether it is functional to financial performance.The following thing became clear from the result of a case studies and a survey research.1)The functional HRM in a present-day Japanese company is the form which "the incentive system of a job base" and the "Personnel Department concentration of rights of personnel management" combined.2)If the new HRM practice a "succession plan" and "career autonomous support" is added to this form, the explanation power over performance will increase further. The new concept which attaches a condition to the functionality of the HRM "the costs of personnel information" originating in asymmetric information and stickiness was drawn from the above result. And this research acquired the knowledge "the Japan type HRM evolves so that the costs problem of personnel information may be solved."