Personnel System Reform and Integration of Employment Management Categories

: Focusing on the Impact on Female Workers

Abstract

In recent years, non-regular employees have been switched to full-time employees on a large scale in the life insurance industry. In addition, the employment management category has repeatedly been changed, the non-career track was abolished at major life insurance companies. Although classification according to range of work relocations remains, all employees became career-track staffs who are likely to be promoted. This study examined the changes of the personnel system, its background and logic, changes in the substance, and the impact on female labor from the case study of traditional life insurance companies.

Some previous studies have argued that it is efficient to create management categories and develop human resources by each category. However, it is not efficient to fix the expected roles in each employment management category in advance. This study finds integration of employment management categories try to “exercises” women’s agency. It can be said that this is a new type of women’s utilization policy that repositions women as “subjects” and encourages them to demonstrate their abilities in their “will.”