体質改善

• 読み: たいしつかいぜん
• ローマ字: taishitsu kaizen
• 漢字の分解: 体 (tai) — body, structure; 質 (shitsu) — quality, nature, constitution; 改 (kai) — reform, change; 善 (zen) — good, improve
• 発音: /ta.i.ɕi.tsɯ.ka.i.zeɴ/

意味

Structural reform; fundamental improvement. Deep-rooted changes to an organisation's underlying structure, culture, or financial health.

Originally a medical term for improving one's physical constitution, it is now firmly established in business Japanese to describe transformative corporate reform. 財務体質改善 (financial structural improvement) and 経営体質改善 (management structural improvement) are common collocations. It implies not just surface-level fixes but a change in the very nature of how an organisation operates.

例文

1. 長年の赤字体質から脱却するため、抜本的な体質改善が急務となっている。
2. 経営陣は財務体質改善のために不採算事業の売却を検討している。
3. この会社の体質改善には、トップダウンではなく現場からの変革が必要だ。

使い方ガイド

場面: corporate management, business restructuring, economics

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

体質 (taishitsu, constitution/nature) is a medical term describing a person's physical makeup, borrowed into business to mean an organisation's inherent characteristics. 改善 (kaizen, improvement) is the widely known Japanese management concept. Together they describe changing the organisation's very DNA.

文化的背景

時代: Modern

世代: Adults

社会的背景: Business