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.
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