Self-Management of Community Life in a Private Dormitory

Abstract

This study aims firstly to reveal how community life is managed by residents in a privately run dormitory, and secondly to gain knowledge about how to make successful self-management in student dormitory. Since 2004, when the dormitory was opened, the private enterprise had tentatively supported self-management by the residents until it was considered to be working actively. However, after the restraint on the support, there was a loss of self-management function due to the turnover of residents. Therefore the enterprise has started its support again by organizing meetings among the new residents and making contact with a student representative by email. The support has consequently encouraged the residents to call attention through messages on a whiteboard, with the resident representative taking the lead. From the above, the following were found out to play a key role in self-management of community life in dormitory: 1) Meetings about self-management among residents 2) Student representative who takes the lead in self-management 3) Contact system among residents in order to call attention 4) Outside support for self-management such as communication with residents