Regeneration of Hiring Activities as Valuation Practices

Continuous changes in human resource valuation at Sanko Seika

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to propose that hiring activities are valuation practices that make human resources valuable by clarifying valuation process in the new graduate labor market in Japan. According to valuation studies perspective, valuation process can be considered as three stages, categorization, classification and singularization. In this paper, we show how new hiring activities and human value(s) were made by describing the case of Sanko Seika Inc., which has continuously changed its recruitment and selection activities and set up a new recruitment framework.