A Study of the Mechanism of Formation of Employment Portfolios in Companies

: Analyses of Quantitative and Qualitative Data on Department Stores and General Supermarkets

Abstract

In this study the mechanism of employment formation at worksites in the retail industry is examined through case study analyses of three companies, two of them department stores and one a general supermarket. First, the nature of employee formation at worksites in the retail industry is extracted from secondary analyses of a questionnaire survey, conducted by the Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training in 2010, which reconfirmed the utilization of non-regular employees. It is also reconfirmed through case study analyses that business plans and profit controls exert a positive influence on utilizing non-regular employees as core workers. In addition to the above considerations, it is found that the way of sharing personnel information tends to differ between skill-based management and job-based management, and that the centralization of information and the degree of change in business plans are affected by increased numbers of in non-regular employees in a worksite.