Study on the Development of University Non-Academic Staff in relation to their Better Employability

本研究的目的是对日本大学和学院的非学术人员进行研究，并分析他们的特征与他们在所在机构的地位以及他们对改进工作的渴望，从而提高他们的就业能力。为什么是就业能力？这是因为，近年来，由于高等教育周围环境的快速变化，高校要提高适应新环境的能力，聘请这样一批能够应对高度复杂的机构管理的非学术人员，以及拥有良好的学术人员素质是至关重要的。我的分析工具是对大学非学术人员进行社会调查，询问他们的背景、工作现状、他们在学校的地位，以及他们对提高能力的愿望。一些发现是这样的；非学术人员t…他们的主动性更多地体现在一般事务和金融事务上，而不是在学术和学生服务方面。我猜想，这是因为教职员往往是根据教职员会议的决定而工作，他们往往只视非教职员为支援或文书人员，而不是行政人员或管理人员。许多非教职人员意识到，他们不应只担任支援人员，而应与教职员在其院校内作为平等的伙伴。要做到这一点，他们大多认为应该培养自己更好地工作的能力，管理更复杂的管理和学术问题的能力。它们大致有三种手段。一个是攻读研究生课程。第二是在职培训，第三是拥有一些资格，比如专业大学教职员工。他们对这一点的看法几乎各有不同，因此未来应该更详细地考虑这一点。大学改革在日本是当务之急，我的研究应该对未来世界和日本的高等教育机构的教职员工发展有所帮助。我认为，我的研究应该对世界和日本的高等教育机构的教职员工发展有所帮助

The aim of this research is to study on non-academic staff at universities and colleges in Japan and to analyze their character in relation with their status at their institutions and their aspiration for the improvement of their jobs so that their employability would be improved. Why employability? It is because, in recent years, due to the rapid changes of environment around higher education, universities and colleges should improve their ability to adapt to the newly created environment For the adaption, it is critical to employ such non-academic staff who are capable to deal with highly sophisticated management of institutions, in addition to have good quality of academic staff.My tool for the analysis was to make social surveys to the university non-academic staff asking about their background, current working condition, their status in their institutions against academic stag their aspiration of the improvement of their ability. Some findings ware such that ; non-academic staff t … More ake their initiatives more in general and financial affairs than in academic and student service matters. It was, I guess, becalm academic staff tend to work based on the decision making by faculty meetings and they tend to regard non-academic staff as only supporting or clerical ones rather than administrators or managers.Many non-academic staff realized that they should not work as supporting staff only but they should work with academic staff as the equal partner within their institutions. To do so, most of them thought that they should develop their ability to work better and to manage more sophisticated and complicated managerial matters and academic matters.How to develop their ability? Them are roughly three kinds of means. One is to study at graduate programs. Second is to have on-the job trainings and third is to have some qualifications such as 'Professional university staff" or so. Their opinions about this was divided almost equally and thus it should be considered more in detail in the future.University reform is urgent matter in Japan and I behave that my research should be useful in the future for the consideration of staff development of higher education institutions in the world as well as in Japan. Less