"経営者、15才に仕事を教える"
Rakutaro Kitashiro
ISBN 4-621-07490-3
In English, the Japanese title would be translated like "A CEO Teaches Job for Junior High Students." The author is CEO of IBM Japan.
I read the book on Dec. 23, 2007.
Today, I had a small training course of discussion skill at work, and there we talked about how to develop human resource, especially our subordinates.
In my understanding, the essential point of the book is that there was a change of human resource type required by companies/society. Human resources not just suitable for catching up western countries, but have creativity.
But, the discussion was almost focused on mainly technical issues of human resource development those of coaching, mentoring or showing career path etc.
Of course, it's my fault that I couldn't explain the point well, but it was a bit surprising almost none of them expressed any interests in the view point.
My employer is sometimes called "A Beleaguered Giant", and obviously both the employer and employees have to change their working way. Obviously, desired human resource type should be changed.
That means we should have discussed not "how we develop human resource well" but "what kind of human resource type we should shoot for."
That's what I felt.
I'm still wondering if I should accept a promotion offer or not... :o
1 comment:
Not easy topic, as there are quite many parameters in the Human Ressources equation.
I was kinda surprised by what you said: Japanese companies trying to "catch up with western companies". That's weird, since Western companies are looking at Japanese and Korean IT companies as leaders in innovation (--> creativity), and wondering how they can catch up with them... The leitmotiv is
INNOVATION, although nobody really knows what it means exactly.
Back to what you were saying regarding technical skill, I have the feeling that the gap between technical skill and creativity is getting wider and wider. Do we want people who can code a very specific instruction, or people who can invent codes? In other words, do we want robot like people or creative people? In the first group, it's easy to make them walk on the same path. In the last group, it's a lot more complicated, and required efficient Human Ressources department and skillful Managers, skillful in how to manage people.
Why don't you join a foreign company? ;)
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