人事(じんじ)

人事(じんじ) is personnel management — hiring, transfers, evaluations, and the department that handles them. In business Japanese it is one of the standard department names, alongside 経理(けいり) and 総務(そうむ).

Common collocations

• 人事(じんじ)部(ぶ) (HR department, personnel department)
• 人事(じんじ)異動(いどう) (personnel transfer, job reassignment)
• 人事(じんじ)評価(ひょうか) (personnel evaluation)
• 人事(じんじ)担当(たんとう) (the person in charge of HR)

Common expressions

• 人事(じんじ)を尽(つ)くして天命(てんめい)を待(ま)つ: do everything you can, then leave the rest to fate. In this fixed proverb 人事(じんじ) keeps an older meaning, "what lies within human power"; everywhere else it means personnel matters.

Watch out

The similar-looking 他人事(ひとごと), 'someone else's problem', is a separate word with its own reading.