Paper Title: The Japan’s Role for the Human Resource Development for Manufacturing Industry in Myanmar

4. The Case of Myanmar-Japan Center for Human Resources Development

In this section, the case of Myanmar-Japan Center (MJC) is studied from the both perspectives, as a role of Japan in human resource development and as one of TVET institution in Myanmar. MJC was established with the agreement from both Myanmar and Japan for the purpose of human resource development in the field of industry and commerce, as well as to build a stronger tie between Myanmar and Japan in 2013. MJC is supervised by Ministry of Commerce (MOC) and implemented jointly by Republic of the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chamber of Commerce and Industry (UMFCCI) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). MJC aims to train the middle management and the executive group as the core target.MJC is providing the educational preparation for career of business leadership, such as functional knowledge, practical management skills and the ability to identifyand analyse problems from multiple perspectives by using a variety of approaches.

The organization of MJC is as shown in Figure 4. Director, who is one of the Vice Presidents of UMFCCI and two JICA Experts, Chief Advisor and Project Coordinator, lead national staffs to operate activities of MJC. There are two divisions in MJC, Business Course Division and General Affairs Division. Business Course Division implements MJC Courses and MJC Seminars and General Affairs Division operate Human Resources, Account, Procurement and Administrative works. There are13Myanmar Staff members in MJC. As the center for human resources development, MJC provided business courses and seminars since 2013.


Chief Advisor

Director
Figure 4 Organization Chart of MJC

Project Coordinator


Manager, General Affair Division

Manager, Business Course Di Div.




Assistant to DM In charge of MyanmarInstructor

Assistant to DM In charge of JapaneseInstructors

Reception/ Admin

Assistant to DM/Personal/General

Accountant/Procurement



Myanmar Instructors

JICA Instructors(panasonic)

Figure 5 Targets and Courses of MJC

The core target of MJC is middle management and executives, including engineers. MJC is divided into the business courses broadly: (1)MJC’s core training courses that include: general course for managers and special course for entrepreneurship and owners, (2) Custom made courses for individual needs for companies, (3) Consultancy services to individual companies (upon request); as well as (4)Special seminars and workshops as shown in Figure 5.

There are four kinds of MJC Courses, (1) General Business Courses (2) Special Business Courses (3) National Instructor Courses and (4) Original Courses as shown in the Table4.

Table 4 MJC Business Courses

Course				Class	Participants
MJC Courses		General Course	Knowledge Management	2	54
			Human Resources Management	2	54
			Business Plan Development	3	108
			Financial Management	2	62
			Financial Accounting	1	19
			Communication Skills	2	53
			Project Management	3	115
			Strategic Marketing	3	104
			Business Ethics	1	24
			Business Plan Development (Mdy)	2	39
			Japanese Style Management (Mdy)	2	47
			Marketing for Service Business	3	72
			Leadership & Organization Management	1	40
			Human Resources & Leadership - Adv	1	28
			Human Resources Management (Mdy)	2	82
			Project Management (Mdy)	2	73
			Marketing for Service Business (Mdy)	2	74
				34	1048
		Special Course	- Entrepreneur Course/Case Study	7	112
			- Tailor Made Course	5	120
			- Networking Course	1	38
				13	270
		National Instructor Course	- Human Recourse Management	1	37
			- Business Plan	1	37
			- Marketing	1	37
			- Communication Skill	1	37
				4	148
		Original Course	- Practical Tour Guide Training	1	36
			- Global HR Training for Japanese company	1	2
				2	38
MJC Seminars		One day Seminar	Regional Seminar…	9	393
		Special Seminar/ Joint Seminar	KEIDANREN Seminar、Capital Market Seminar、Business Law/ Collaboration with JDS, TTI…	9	662
				18	1055
		TOTAL		71	2559

For General Business Courses, based on the main purpose of MJC, Japanese Experts by assisting Myanmar assistant lecturers and interpreters provided 34 business courses at MJC in Yangon and Mandalay. There are 1048 participants in all courses and types of industries (Table 5), participants by departments (Figure 6) and participants bay positions (Table 6) are shown below.

Table 5 Types of Industries and Number of Participants (2013)

	Participants
Service	498
Engineering	12
Construction	63
Manufacturing	162
Trading	313
Total	1,048

Figure6 Participants by Departments

Table 6 Participants by Positions

Position	Participant	Percent
Owner / CEO	303	28.91
General Manager	41	3.91
Manager	213	20.32
Professional/ Technical	164	15.65
Assistant Manager	98	9.35
Others	229	21.85
Total	1,048	100.00

MJC provided special courses, such as Entrepreneur Course, Case Study, Tailor Made Course and Networking Courses in Yangon and Mandalay in FY-2014.Participants by industries, departments, positions, and age range are shown in Table 7, 8, 9, and 10.
Table 7 Participants by Industries

Type of Industry	Participant	Percent
Service	53	47.32
Construction	12	10.71
Manufacturing	23	20.54
Trading	24	21.43
Total	112	100.00

Table 8 Participants by Departments

Department	Participant	Percent
Admin	13	11.61
Sales & Marketing	7	6.25
Accounting & Finance	6	5.36
Human Resources Department	2	1.79
Production	4	3.57
Others	14	12.50
No Department	66	58.93
Total	112	100.00

Table 9 Participants by Positions

Position	Participant	Percent
Owner / CEO	64	57.14
General Manager	7	6.25
Manager	15	13.39
Professional/ Technical	18	16.07
Assistant Manager	4	3.57
Others	4	3.57
	112	100.00

Table10 Participants by Age Range

Age Range	Participant	Percent
=<25	10	8.93
26-35	60	53.57
36-45	29	25.89
46-55	8	7.14
56 over	5	4.46
Total	112	100.00

Table 11 Overview of MJC Business Course
	Participants	Percent
Excellent	397	44.3
Good	447	49.8
Fair	41	4.6
Poor	4	.4
Very Poor	2	.2
No response	6	.7
Total	897	100.0

As shown in general business courses and special courses,participants from manufacturing industry shares 10-20 per cent of total participants, while service shares nearly 50 and trading shares 20-30 per cent. Currently, still the participants from manufacturing industries are low, but the demand is increasing as the recent investment increase. As of participants positions, owner &CEO is the highest but technical professionals is about 15 per cent. Majority of participants are the age between 26 and 35. Overall 94 per cents of participants evaluated the course excellent or good as shown in Table 11.