抄録
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the current situation and issues about business development and human resource management of Japanese paddy farming companies. Concretely, this paper clarifies the trends and features of business development and human resource management on the basis of case studies on seven paddy farming companies in the Tohoku and Hokuriku regions. In addition, this paper classifies a grouping axis designed according to the business model of each company, and compares features of the human resource management of each company.
The main results of the analysis are summarized as follows:
1) There are differences in employees' position and expected role that is dependent on the direction of business development and the business model for each company.
2) Managers expect an employee's contribution to the organization to be based upon spontaneous activity in various scenes and roles.
3) The lack of an intentional employee training process and human resource management are important problems in paddy farming companies' management.
On the other hand, the main problems of the future are presented as follows:
1) Each company should restructure its original business model on the basis of that company's strengths and weaknesses.
2) It is important that each company work on each employees training toward an original target.
3) It is important that these companies develop their businesses by restructuring their own business model and synchronizing the system to appropriate models of human resource management.
