Training Courses per Theme

Training to Improve Personnel Evaluation and Development Abilities

The NPA has been implementing training to Improve Personnel Evaluation and Development Abilities (Training to Improve Personnel Evaluation Abilities until FY2016) since October 2008, which is designed so that managers who are supposed to serve as evaluators at each ministry can acquire practical knowledge and techniques for evaluation and interviews.

The training consists of two courses: “Lecture and Debate Course”, which provides lectures with the aims of facilitating trainees to understand the framework of the Personnel Evaluation system and to utilize it for human resource development; and “Role-playing Course”, which gives trainees an opportunity to experience simulated interviews.

The NPA’s officials work as instructors so that managers from each ministry can raise their evaluation ability adequately and utilize it for coaching and training their subordinates.

Personnel Management Seminar

The NPA has been carrying out the Personnel Management Seminar since FY2010 targeting managerial personnel.

The purpose of this seminar is to promote/support efforts of each ministry to develop human resources through offering participants the opportunities to confirm key points that managerial personnel should keep in mind when mentoring and guiding their subordinates to fulfill their abilities; as well as the opportunities to learn from each other by sharing experiences and exchanging opinions.

Seminar to Further Promote Female Employees

As part of the measures to further promote female employees, the NPA has been conducting the Seminar to Further Promote Female Employees since FY2014, which takes place at the HQ and regional bureaus of the NPA targeting managerial officials.

The objective of this seminar is to raise awareness of managerial officials who are responsible for human resource management / development at each workplace with a view to reviewing the factors which prevent the promotion of female employees in each ministry and creating an environment to promote female employees.

Training for Recruits with Business Experience

The NPA has been conducting a training course for recruits from private sector with business experience since FY2002. This training course aims at giving them knowledge about service discipline that public employees need “as servants of the whole community,” and thorough understanding of ethics that must be maintained by public employees.

Training for Female Employees

With the aim of promoting the enhancement of female employees’ promotion in public service, the NPA has been conducting training to advance careers of female employees.

These training courses provide trainees with opportunities to enhance their ability by enlightening one another, develop management abilities, and form a personal network through inter-ministerial joint training.

Training for Mentors

Since FY2006, as part of the support to implement the “mentor system (a system in which elder employees provide advice or other support to their junior colleagues upon request from the latter with a certain involvement of the personnel authorities)” in the Cabinet Office and each ministry, the NPA has been conducting the Mentor Development Training for the employees who are expected to become a mentor in order to allow them to acquire the basic knowledge about mentors or mentoring at workplace and communication skills.

Training for Executive Officials to Ensure Their Awareness of the Roles

The NPA has been carrying out the training programs for executive officials, who should serve as models for other employees, with the aim of reminding them of the role of public employees as the servants of all citizens.

Training for Executive Officials and Managerial Personnel about the Prevention of Harassment

The NPA conducts this training to remind executive officials and management personnel of their roles and behaviors required to prevent harassment.