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English translation: individual/singular efforts
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| 03:44 Nov 19, 2009 |
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|  Selected response from: Joyce A Thailand Local time: 16:24 | ||||||
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| 3 | depending on individual skills |
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| 3 | personalized |
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| 3 | (Eliminate duties that ) depend/rely on individual/singular efforts |
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depending on individual skills Explanation: http://www.pu-hiroshima.ac.jp/files/d09e.pdf |
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21 mins confidence:
personalized Explanation: For the whole phrase (属人化していた業務の排除), you could probably use something like "eliminate the need for human labor" or "replace humans with computers." I saw in one of the dictionaries where 対応の属人化 was translated as "personalized care." I think that works nicely in that context. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs (2009-11-19 06:01:49 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I think Michiko's right. It's probably more like "eliminate situations where only one person is capable of performing a certain task (through documentation and other efforts)." |
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5 hrs confidence:
(Eliminate duties that ) depend/rely on individual/singular efforts Explanation: 属 = has the meaning of dependency, belonging to. 属人化 = literally: transform into human dependency. Based on your above description it looks like the company wants to eliminate duties that rely on individual/singular efforts and would like to work through collective, standardized efforts. (Even if an individual should leave, it will be easier to pick up on and continue the work.) |
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