BETRIEBLICHE WEITERBILDUNG FÜR INDUSTRIELLEARBEITER IN JAPAN - PRODUKTIONSMANAGEMENT UND QUALIFIKATIONSFORMEN INDER JAPANISCHEN VERARBEITENDEN INDUSTRIE

The advanced in-house personnel training has been the dominated formof the human resources development in Japanese firms. The strategic strength ofthe advanced personnel training depends on the consistency with the skill requirements,which an actual production management demands. On the other hand aproduction management evolve from influences of the firm environments such social,economical, technical and institutional conditions. Hence these elements arelinked to each other in form of institutional complementarity. In this paper, I analysethe evolution of production managements and their influences on the advancedpersonnel trainings in the Japanese manufacturing industry. I focus thereby onthree production models, which are historically salient: flow-production, lean-productionand post-lean-production. I look at these production models as ideal types ofthe production strategies dominant in the Japanese manufacturing industry ineach case. The differentiation of the production models serves for the disclosure ofthe developing path of the production managements, which determine the workersskills, and so the strategy of the human resource development for industrialworkers in the Japanese manufacturing industry...