Hiroshi Yamamoto is a professor of business administration and school of business at the Aoyama Gakuin University. He received his PHD degree (1999) in business administration. His current research interests include human resource management, organizational behavior, and career development. As latest research achievements, there are ‘Study of Promotion’ and ‘Study of Job Change and Career’. The former studied about the career plateau phenomenon meaning an employee's promotion delay. The latter has considered the movement between organizations of job change, shukko, etc. and the career development accompanying it from a viewpoint of the inter-organizational career development. Hiroshi Yamamoto is can be contacted at: yamamoto@busi.aoyama.ac.jp
