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标题：Managing Temporary Workers in Japan
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作者：Motohiro Morishima ; Tomoyuki Shimanuki
期刊名称：Japan Labor Review
印刷版ISSN：1348-9364
出版年度：2005
卷号：2
期号：2
出版社：Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training
摘要：This article aims to shed lights on dispatched workers, whose number has been conspicuously increasing in the Japanese labor market in recent years, and who have created a new kind of employment relationship with firms; it examines problems arising from the peculiarities of their employment framework and the mechanism of their personnel management. The employment pattern of dispatched workers displays a structural framework different from that of traditional regular employees: in the presence of two actors in the human resource management involved; and in the shortness of career perspectives. The presence of two actors in the management of dispatched workers ¨C firms taking them on and manpower supply agencies ¨C means the division of functions which have been traditionally fulfilled by a single actor, and generates "mismatches in human resource management" in the fields of procurement of personnel, their training, and their evaluation and remuneration. The short-term nature of career perspectives, on the other hand, deprives the actors of the incentive to resolve those mismatches, which seem likely to diminish both the willingness to work and the performance itself of dispatched workers. For effective use of these workers, it is vital to examine, from the viewpoint of the mutually complementary relationship between actors in the human resource management, possible ways of building a management framework for dispatched workers, assistance to them in improving their value as workers, and giving them satisfaction in their work