To realize this business strategy, it is essential to support the challenges and growth of each and every one of our employees and enhance their abilities, and in so doing, maximize the capabilities of the organization. To achieve this, we are pursuing four key HR strategies.

The first is to secure personnel in a way that aligns with our management policies and business strategies. We will clearly determine the quality and quantity of personnel needed to realize our management policies and business strategies, and develop recruitment strategies and execute actions to secure that quality and quantity with certainty. The second strategy is to develop next-generation leaders who will drive the Company’s management and business into the future. We have positioned this strategy as a particularly important theme in our HR strategies. The third strategy is human resources development measures that are designed to enhance our employees’ abilities and to draw out and make use of those abilities. By enhancing employees’ abilities and expertise and providing them with appropriate opportunities to take on challenges, we will elevate the experiences of each and every employee to improve both productivity and engagement, in our aim to realize a workplace in which both business outcomes and self-realization can be achieved. Our fourth key strategy is the promotion of diversity and inclusion. As the working population declines and competition for human resources intensifies, we will promote innovation and strengthen our organizational capabilities through the use of diverse personnel.

To enhance the integration and alignment of our HR strategies with our management strategies, in addition to reporting and deliberation in the Executive Committee, which is responsible for the overall execution of business, an Organization and Human Resources Management Committee was launched in April 2024. This committee, which holds regular meetings every quarter, comprises the President, Directors (Directors who are Full-time Audit & Supervisory Committee Members are the only Outside Directors to attend), Executive Officers, and the Human Resources Department. The General Manager of the Human Resources Department, who is in charge of HR, serves as its chair. While analyzing HR data from past and present perspectives, the committee discusses the formulation of organization- and HR-related policies and relevant issues from both qualitative and quantitative aspects. It also considers future organization- and HR-related strategies from the various viewpoints of management, HR, and business.

1. Secure personnel in a way that aligns with our management policies and business strategies

2. Developing next-generation leaders who will drive the Company’s management and business into the future

3. Human resources development measures that are designed to enhance our employees’ abilities and to draw out and make use of those abilities

4. The promotion of diversity and inclusion