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If you’re part of what is known as the general career track (総合職) and are actually being groomed for (middle) management, it’s common policy to move people ever
by SenHeng 18d ago
If you’re part of what is known as the general career track (総合職) and are actually being groomed for (middle) management, it’s common policy to move people every 3 years, in theory it prevents building of fiefdoms while also giving you a chance to improve your network, know the ins and outs of your company/government agency and give you the opportunity to accumulate small wins along the way.
The silly policy also extends towards things like supermarket managers, midsized companies with a country wide branch network public school teachers and other nonmilitary civil service positions.
If you’re a primary school teacher, you likely won’t see your students graduate.
- bionsystem 14d agoI also saw entities (mainly gov agencies) where it has a disastrous result. Because management know they will be out in 3 years, they spend as much budget as they can to initiate as big projects as they can and have them on their resume, plan beyond their 3-y stay here, and leave with a big bonus. This way they never get asked why it is not complete ("because it's plan for a couple more years"), the project fails eventually (people actually working on the stuff end up leaving too at some point), and the cycle repeats with the next guy.