タイ日系自動車企業における教育訓練体系

技術移転の方法論としての視点を中心に

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Automotive industry of Thailand has been growing since 1960s and expanding its production and capacity, which is mostly developed and constituted by foreign direct investment from Japan. According to the business environment of the industry up to the late 1990s, Japanese automotive and autoparts manufacturers did not meet the needs to prepare an education and training system to satisfy the required standard of their production activities. But they are recently considering the adoptions of a fixed system for education and training for their employees and shifting their management to catch up with the globalization of the automotive industry, and most of the company has taken more systematic regime than the typical Japanese management system.

In this study, impact of the education and training system is theoretically discussed and evaluated, two case studies along with our field survey are demonstrated. The model, shown in the paper explains the efficiency of gradualism and the effectiveness of spiral formation to induce an educational and training system, that process will fit the current situation of Japanese enterprises in LDCs. In the case study, two Japanese companies which have just started their new systems are adopted as cases, one is a well known assembler and the other is an one of the largest suppliers in Japan, differentials of the characteristics between those systems are focused and defined.

As results of this study, there can be confirmed that a fixed system for the education and training will make a positive impact to the Japanese manufacturers, effect of the current discussions among them are theoretically proved. From case studies, two approaches to build up an education and training system are found, one is to implement an existing system already modified by the parents company, the other is to build up an original system considering local conditions. Each system hold its strong points, those can be evaluated to have good starts in this moment. As it was accepted and well evaluated in Japan, CDP will be adopted among Japanese manufactures in Thailand, it will contribute to develop their management and to promote skill formation by accelerating technology transfer.