Personnel Placement Structure in Japanese Municipalities

Abstract

In December 1996, the Committee for the Promotion of Decentralization, Prime Minister's Office, released a report titled “The Creation of Decentralized Society” in which entire abolishment of the delegation system and thorough review of the required controls in a local autonomy are taken up as a pivotal problem. In the event of the said project being realized, it is expected that the competence of the local government will be strikingly enhanced and an efficient renovation will be promoted in the field of the construction of the administrative system and activized placement of the personnel.In this study, we have explained the personnel placement structure, based on the questionnaire conducted by Sanno College, by the staff member's number in the autonomous systems at present.The results of the analysis are as follows: 1) The number of personnel of each municipalities depends on the population scale. 2) Almost none of correlation is noted between the number of the sector-wise personnel and the local index data which were collected with the premise that the contents and scale of the sector-wise duty would greatly influence the number of the personnel.Since now on, human resource control based on the review of the supply form of the administrative service such as the reshuffling of the business, the reduction and/or the out-sourcing of the jobs with low necessary, and so on will be required.