SCOPESCOPE (Sustainability Co-Creation Programme)

The meaning of Global Human Resources (GHR) varies from company to company and even among the professionals. However, it usually connotes people who have an ability including a foreign language(s) proficiency and experiences of having worked in the international situation. Students will learn how GHRs are dealt with by companies at the time of recruitment and promotions.

This subject aims to help students to learn why the GHR has been actively discussed in Japan in the past 10 years or so. Based on that, the class will help students understand what they should do to work beyond the border of a country. However, the class will focus on GHR at Japanese companies.

Among diploma policies, "DP2" is related

英語 / English

The lecture will take up various topics concerning GHR, including topics such as education at schools and universities to cope with globalization, mobility of people between countries and employment of people with different cultural backgrounds. The class will be run in the form of lecture with active participation of students in the discussion.

あり / Yes

なし / No

授業形態/methods of teaching：対面/face to face

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Week 1[対面/face to face]：What is GHR?

What GHR is will be discussed in the first session focusing on what is going on in Japan in terms of employment and globalization.

Week 2[対面/face to face]：The economy moving towards globalization

As a basis of GHR, students will look at the globalization of economy and young people's move across the border of countries. Here students will have a brief look at what is going on in the EU, English speaking countries and other parts of the world.

Week 3[対面/face to face]：Japanese employment practices (1)

Before getting into the discussion about GHR, it will be reviewed what characterizes the Japanese employment practices to understand the Japanese situation.

Week 4[対面/face to face]：Japanese employment practices (2)

Students will learn the way of job seeking by university students in Japan. The way that the Japanese companies recruit new school leavers and university graduates is very different from that of other countries.

Week 5[対面/face to face]：Quick move to GHR in Japan and government policies

The Japanese Government has been pushing educational institutions and companies towards globalization in the past 10 years or so. Why and how?

Week 6[対面/face to face]：Policies of employer organizations and companies, Japanese case

The policies of employer organizations and individual companies on GHR in Japan will be discussed. To the extent that the Japanese employment system is different from that of other countries, it seems difficult to change it and adapt to what is going on under globalization.

Week 7[対面/face to face]：Education towards globalization (1)

The lecture will look at the development of GHR at schools including education at ordinary schools, international schools and international baccalaureate schools.

Week 8[対面/face to face]：Education towards globalization (2)

Students will learn what Japanese universities have been doing for the development of GHR in the past years.

Week 9[対面/face to face]：International students and their employment (1)

The employment of Japanese students who studied overseas including kikokusei (returned children) will be examined.

Week 10[対面/face to face]：International students and their employment (2)

The employment of overseas students who are studying in Japan will be examined. In 2019, the Japanese government took a step towards the employment of more non-Japanese people in the face of labour shortage.

Week 11[対面/face to face]：World race for talent and studying overseas

Universities all over the world are involved in the race for talent and young people are studying and finding a job across the border of a country. Such a trend will be looked at.

Week 12[対面/face to face]：Presentation by students (1)

The first half of the students will make presentations on their future career plan or their essay topics.

Week 13[対面/face to face]：Presentation by students (2)

The second half of the students will make presentations on their future career plan or their essay topics.

Week 14[対面/face to face]：Final examination or submission of a final essay.

Students are supposed to have a final examination or submit a final essay of 3,000 words. After the examination, comments will be made about the examination or a final essay.

Students should read materials provided in class before and after the class, make clear what they did not understand, be ready to ask questions or make comments about them. The time supposed to spend for the reading and review is four hours for each session.

No specific textbook is used, but various handouts and reading materials will be provided in class.

Some reference books will be introduced in the first session.

Assessment will be made based on either a final essay type examination or an essay of 3,000 words (70%). Consideration will also be taken into attendance, short exams, presentation in class (20%) and participation in class discussion (10%).

Reading materials in advance is strongly recommended so that students can better understand the lecture.

Nothing.

Students who may take this subject must attend the first session. If they are not native speakers of English, they must bring the results of English language proficiency tests such as TOEFL, TOEIC, Eigo-kentei Shiken or other similar tests in the first session.
Please note that this is a SCOPE subject. So, in case of the number of applicants becoming more than 15, priority will be given to SCOPE students and some sort of selection may be made for the other students.