Human Resources Management
Basic Policy on Human Resources
Hanwa Founder Jiro Kita believed that a trading company is its
people, and he developed the business under his philosophy
that the prosperity of a company and the welfare of its
employees are inseparable like the two halves of a whole.
As the social environment changes, we believe that
adopting a personnel system and an employee welfare system
suited to the times and financial conditions so that all
employees find us a great place to work—including experienced
new hires, employees who are foreign nationals, and women in
career path positions—is vital to the development of our
company.
Creating a Safe Work Environment
We believe that a work environment and employment terms that
make employees feel safe lead to high performance.
We give ear to requests and opinions with the self
report collected annually and the Personnel Department
suggestion box available at any time, and we put them to use,
for example, to add to our employee welfare system.
We
are also working on an environment to facilitate teleworking,
including running a paper reduction project to streamline
tasks and promoting adoption of systems that include AI and
RPA.
Training Personnel
We are working on personnel development with the keywords
Professional and Global (P&G), and we are seeking personnel
that will specialize in their own field and exercise that
specialty successfully across many fields.
To foster such employees who can think for themselves
and take initiative, even when they are young, and create
business, we have prepared necessary training and
opportunities for them to take on various challenges.
In
FY2021, we will establish Hanwa Business School, an in-house
educational system. With varied training programs that can be
accessed online at any time, our hope is to achieve an
effective, efficient training program.
In-house Educational System “Hanwa Business School”
In June 2022, we established an in-house educational system “Hanwa Business School.” Hanwa Business School systematizes past training and departmental knowledge to conform to the times, and serves as a place for employees to learn by themselves. We are divided into eight faculties, including the Faculty of Literature to learn the Hanwa “DNA” and our history, the Faculty of Commerce to acquire knowledge of accounting and finance, and the Faculty of Business Administration to learn the theory and practice necessary for investment decisions, and we offer a variety of training programs. The most distinguishing feature of Hanwa Business School is that it is located in the metaverse. Each employee's avatar participates in lectures, training, events, etc. in the metaverse. Even in situations where face-to-face training is difficult due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is possible to share a space and communicate in both directions in the metaverse. In the future, employees around the world will select the curriculum they want to study in each faculty and proceed with their learning anytime, anywhere, helping us raise the intellectual literacy level of all employees and develop “professional and global” human resources.
Promoting Diversity
Promotion of Women’s Participation and Advancement
We create three-year action plans for the participation and
advancement of women in the workplace. This plan reflects many
suggestions from women employees.
Women holding managerial posts at Hanwa are
increasing—currently one in the general manager class and seven
in the section manage class. We also have one female outside
director, and we will continue to promote the participation and
advancement of women.
Action plans based on the Act on Promotion of Women’s
Participation and Advancement in the Workplace and the Act on
Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation
Children
Period covered by the plan: Three years from April 1,
2020, to March 31, 2023
Goal 1: Improving the work environment with the aim of
increasing productivity
Goal 2: Using 65% of annual paid leave
Goal 3:
Reducing the total annual working hours of one person to 1,900
hours
Goal 4: Promoting the use of childcare leave by male
employees
Goal 5: Invigorating personnel transfers
Goal 6: Increasing the ratio of women in career path
positions and managerial positions
Employment of Persons with Disabilities
In addition to complying with the legal ratio for employing
persons with disabilities, we endeavor to make an environment
that employees will feel safe in so that they will continue to
work with us.
We have an initiative to provide each employee with a way
to work that suits the individual and the environment, and we
also offer teleworking.
In trying a new form of employing
persons with disabilities, we are collaborating with a startup
company that provides shoeshine services in which the person
with disabilities is the skilled worker.
A store with an employee with a disability who is a skilled shoeshiner
Working for Health and Productivity Management
The Health and Productivity Management Declaration and Promotion Structure
We established the Hanwa Health and Productivity Management
Declaration on April 1, 2018. The president was designated the
Chief Health Officer (CHO), and the Health and Productivity
Management Office was set up in the Personnel Department.
To maintain and improve the health of our employees, the
core of a trading company, and their families, we will work with
our health insurance society and develop an assortment of
measures for health and productivity management.
[Hanwa Health and Productivity Management Declaration]
[Enacted April 1st, 2018]
Hanwa Founder Jiro Kita believed that a trading company is its
people, and he worked on developing human resources and building
a healthy working environment under his philosophy that the
prosperity of a company and the welfare of its employees are
inseparable like the two halves of a whole. Based on this
philosophy, Hanwa views the management of employee health from a
business administration standpoint, and the company, employees,
and the health insurance society work as one to promote the
health of each employee and their family.
By promoting a working environment where employees can be
healthy, psychologically and physically, and can thrive, Hanwa
will contribute to society as a distribution specialist.
