Impact of the using non-regular employees on On-the-job training: from both viewpoints of companies and workers

Based on previous studies which clarified that employment of non-regular employees has a negative impact on firm-level training, this paper verified whether it is caused by quantitative change in non-regular employees or functional problems such as employment policy of non-regular employees. As a result of the analysis, it was confirmed that quantitative increase in non-regular employees is not a major impediment to implementation of On-the-Job Training (OJT). On the other hand, it was confirmed that OJT does not function smoothly in companies where the number of regular employees’ employment is reduced by the employment of non-regular employees. This indicates that OJT is not functioning smoothly in companies in which regular employees have been replaced with non-regular ones. It indicated a possibility that the impact of employment of non-regular employees on OJT is caused by a functional problem of human resources management, i.e., using non-regular employees as substitutes for regular employees, not quantitative change in non-regular employees.