Human Resource Development
Human Resource Development
Basic Approach
The Hitachi High-Tech Group regards people themselves as one of the assets of a company and we believe that improving the value of each and every individual as a human resource leads directly to sustainable value creation throughout the Group. Based on this view, we will continue to provide career development support that emphasizes employees' individual values, job satisfaction, and their personal meaning of work. We will also accelerate the development of human resources who can respond to business from a global perspective, and human resources who can demonstrate the highest level of skills in manufacturing. In addition, we will continue to cultivate personnel who can make full use of digital technology, for which there is a growing need. We also strive to foster a corporate culture in which all employees can demonstrate their abilities and creativity to the greatest degree possible.
Organization
Management Education Committee
We endeavor to ensure ongoing verification and improvement of our human resource development initiatives via the Management Education Committee, which meets twice a year. Based on the cultivation of personnel who are capable of acting independently in a global context, our educational programs are organized into categories and systematically implemented.
Hitachi High-Tech implemented a total of 278,059 hours in training during FY2023, and the average time each employee spent in training was 49.0 hours.
FY2024 Education System
Initiatives
Cultivating Personnel with a Global Outlook
We actively post young employees overseas with a view to cultivating personnel capable of doing business with a global perspective. Young employees are trained overseas via a one-year overseas training program or a foreign study program paid for by the company and other such programs. We are also taking steps to further improve our development of global human resources, for instance by establishing a common worldwide program of fundamental education for the national staff members who are active at each of our overseas sites.
Cultivating Skilled Manufacturing Personnel
Our ability to manufacture high-tech products such as semiconductor testers and analyzers is underpinned by our ceaseless development of cutting-edge technology and the highest-possible level of skill in translating this technology into products. For many years, as part of our proactive endeavors to cultivate technicians, we have taken on the challenge of entering the annual National Skills Competition and National Abilympics, and have produced many medalists, both at the national and the international level.
Daimu Tazawa, a participant from Hitachi High-Tech, successfully won a place on the Japanese team at the 47th WorldSkills Competition held in October 2023 in the CNC Turning category. All of us at Hitachi High-Tech will continue to work hard to achieve our goal of becoming the world's best at the international competition to be held in Lyon, France in September 2024.
In November of the same year, the 61st WorldSkills Japan competition was held, and the Hitachi High-Tech Group won prizes in all the categories in which it competed, including a silver medal in Turning, a bronze medal in Milling, and Fighting Spirit Award in the Mechatronics and Mechanical Engineering CAD categories. We will continue our efforts to develop human resources who can demonstrate the highest level of skills in a wide range of occupations.
Supporting Career Development
The Group implements policies to support career development that emphasize the meaningfulness of work to individual employees as well as its purposes and values for them. We conduct age-specific career development training, counseling by career counselors, and individual career counseling at the in-house Career Counseling Office. We also introduced a reduced working hours program for career development approved by the Company and a sabbatical program for foreign study, personal development, and volunteer activities.
In FY2021, we started conducting one-on-one meetings where managers can gain a shared awareness of subordinates’ career goals and support their growth, and since FY2022, we have been conducting online training courses that enable employees to acquire the latest knowledge and skills.
Ensuring Fair Evaluation and Compensation
The Hitachi-High Tech believes that a fair global system of employee evaluation and compensation is essential for attracting diverse talents, regardless of nationality. Accordingly, we established a Global Compensation Philosophy: A management framework shared by all Group companies based on the principles of ensuring market competitiveness, pay for performance, and transparency.
We ensure compliance with the laws and regulations of each country and region in which we operate when determining compensation. For instance, to ensure compliance with minimum wages, etc., in Japan, we conduct comprehensive and periodic checks through our system to confirm no violations have occurred. We developed a performance-based compensation system that is fair and competitive in the context of the labor market for the industry in each country or region. Individual employee compensation is based on an annual performance review.
The Hitachi High-Tech Group introduced a system of flexible compensation according to individual employee performance and company performance. In addition to evaluation results, employees receive feedback on strengths and areas for improvement identified via evaluation and challenges and goals for future work. This feedback is designed to encourage personal growth.