TANAKA Satoshi
Associate Professor

Ph.D.(Interdisciplinary Information Studies) The University of Tokyo

TANAKA SatoshiAssociate Professor

Ph.D.(Interdisciplinary Information Studies) The University of Tokyo

I am engaged in research to empirically elucidate the growth and breakthroughs of people and businesses in corporate organizations from the standpoint of learning theory. The main research themes are human resource development for management personnel, human resource development / organizational development for new business divisions, experience learning for middle managers, human resource development / career development for middle / senior employees, etc. Since 2018, I have been working on a research project on the effectiveness of leadership development in the first year of university education at the Data Analytics Lab of the College of Business .

Specialized field

Human Resources Management, Teamwork

Current Position

Department of Business
Graduate School of Business, Master in Business Program
Graduate School of Business, Doctoral Program in Business

Educational background

Keio University Faculty of Business and Commerce Graduated
The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies Master's course completed
The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies Doctoral course completed

Major Research Achievements

Tanaka S, Hatano K, Ikeda M and Nakahara J (2024) Motivation to Lead in Japan: Validation of a Japanese Version of the Motivation to Lead Scale. Frontiers in Psychology. 14:1328593.
Ikeda M, Tanaka S and Kaede Kido (2024) Relationship Between Job Crafting and Emotional Exhaustion: Focusing on the Difference Between Effects of Physical and Cognitive Crafting. Journal of Managerial Psychology, in press
Tanaka, S. (2022), “Effects of goal orientation and unlearning on individual exploration activities”, Journal of Workplace Learning, Vol. 35 No.1, pp.57-74.
Ikeda M, Hatano K, Tanaka S and Nakahara Jun (2022), “Validation of the Japanese Version of the Revised Version of the Compound Psychological Capital Scale (CPC-12R)”, Frontier in Psychology, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print.
Hatano K, Hihara S, Ikeda M, Nakahara J, Tanaka S and Sugimura K (2022), “Workplace Identity Profiles: Associations with Personality Traits and Work Adaptation of Young Japanese Adults”, Journal of Adult Development, 30, pp. 256-266

Award Funding

2019 Society Award (Encouragement Research Award), Japanese Association of Administrative Science
2019 Award (Encouragement Award) Japanese Academy of Human Resource Development

Professional Activities

The Japan Society of Human Resource Management Public Relations Committee member
The Japan Society of Human Resource Management 51th National Convention Program Committee member

Interview media

“Overcoming labor shortages and revitalizing human resources what personnel should do to realize "a breakthrough for middle-aged and senior employees” (People and organizations spoken by key persons in the "Japanese Human Resources Department")
Satoshi Tanaka's serialization project "People who create businesses" (AUBA "TOMORUBA")
Why new business personnel cannot be trained in-house (Direct Sourcing Journal)
Is the person in charge of the new business a loss? Bringing negative learning to the organization ,The true horror of the "Valley of Death" (Gathering of people who create business # 3 Lecture record)
Three characteristics of "people who create businesses" found from the research that is not the person who creates the business like Steve Jobs.(Gathering of people who create business # 3 Lecture record)
A good player cannot be a good manager (Nikkei Business Dialogue)
Things to think about before lamenting that "we don't have an innovator" (Labor Administration Time Signal)

Books

"Executive Development"(by Satoshi Tanaka:University of Tokyo Press)

"Team Working" (by Jun Nakahara and Satoshi Tanaka: JMA Management Center)

“A big study of" people who create businesses” (Satoshi Tanaka and Jun Nakahara: Cross -media Publishing)