"The Future of the Relationship between Individuals, Organizations, and Society in Relation to Work"
The instructor would like this seminar to design its activities as a one-year project where possible. This is because that moving back and forth between input and output will lead to deep learning and new knowledge.
"The Future of the Relationship between Individuals, Organizations, and Society in Relation to Work"
What is the purpose of work? Is it because work is natural? Is it to earn a living? Is it for self-realization? When the purpose of work changes, how will the relationship between individuals, organizations, and society change?
Traditionally, the relationship between individuals and organizations has been built within the Japanese employment system, which is a system of lump-sum hiring of new graduates, lifetime employment, seniority-based wages and promotions, mandatory retirement, in-house education, and company-based labor unions. Individuals spend much of their time in organizations, entrusting their personal growth to organizations, and many of their human relationships are connected to organizations.
In addition, "Japan's social security system has been shaped since the period of rapid economic growth in the 1960s, with a focus on universal health insurance and universal pensions, backed by a two-generation family model of male workers with full-time and lifetime jobs, housewives and children, ample corporate welfare programs, and a community in which people were connected to each other" (the 2012 edition of the White Paper on Health, Labor, and Welfare). The corporate sector has played a major role in the functioning of social securigty through the employment security and the collection of insurance premiums. Many individuals working in companies have been stratified by the organizations to which they belong, and have been connected to society.
In recent years, however, the relationship between individuals, organizations, and society in relation to work has changed dramatically. More and more individuals are designing their own careers, changing careers early on, without being bound by the system of lifetime employment and seniority-based system. More and more individuals are simultaneously holding down multiple jobs. Companies have begun to look for ways to break away from the Japanese employment system of lifetime employment and seniority-based system. These changes in individuals and organizations are likely to continue in the future, given the changing values of generations, the globalization of the corporate competitive environment, and the advancement of ICT technology, as well as the fact that these changes are mutually accelerating other chnages, permeating society as a whole.
How will the relationship between individuals, organizations, and society regarding work change in the future? This seminar envisions conducting research on individual behavior, organizational management, and societal policies in the midst of this shift toward a new equilibrium point, with many variables changing simultaneously in active and passive ways. The research project questions will be formulated according to the interests of the members of the seminar, but topics that might be addressed include, for example, the following. Revolving door career models, disclosure indicators of human capital investment, next-generation Japanese-style talent management, platforms for personal learning and employment records (Learning and Employment Records) required to improve human resource mobility and optimal matching, social security in the age of individuals, etc. Together with SFC students who will create a new era, the instructor would like to explore the future of the relationship between individuals, organizations, and society in relation to work.