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The Work-Life Balance Kick-off seminar
The Ajinomoto Group endeavors to create a stimulating and rewarding work environment for its employees. The group regularly holds labor-management conferences to share management policies, as well as labor-management council meetings to assess labor conditions.
In fiscal 2010, Ajinomoto Co., Inc. held Work-Life Balance Kick-off seminars at all of its business sites in Japan as a concrete measure of the Work-Life Balance Improvement Project, a labor-management initiative. The seminars were intended to promote awareness of the topic and encourage employees to consider how to carry out personal plans for balancing work and home life. It enabled employees to lead more fulfilling lives both at and away from work, and take on work responsibilities with enthusiasm.
In addition, members of upper management visited each of the Ajinomoto Group company and held productive discussions with labor union representatives to provide opportunities to directly explain the Medium-Term Management Plan for fiscal 2011 to 2013.
Such initiatives will be continued to realize the Ajinomoto Group Work-Life Balance Vision, and ensure the development and wellness of employees.
Increasing Employee Awareness on Human Rights
As one of its most important priorities for becoming a genuine global company, the Ajinomoto Group carries out initiatives aimed at realizing workplaces and a society where human rights are fully respected.
Toward this end, in fiscal 2010 Ajinomoto Co., Inc. carried out activities to educate employees about human rights. Training was provided to promote the Ajinomoto Group Standards of Business Conduct, which prohibits any form of discrimination or harassment, and examine some of the most recent human rights issues. The ultimate goal of the training is to develop employees that conduct themselves with a deep understanding of human rights and a heightened sensitivity to the related issues surrounding them.
Also in fiscal 2010, the company again carried out its annual survey on workplace harassment for all employees. The results of the survey were compiled with opinions and cases reported in previous surveys, enabling the company to gain a clearer understanding of harassment issues at its workplaces through this feedback from employees. As an initiative aimed at preventing and eliminating harassment in the workplace, Ajinomoto Co., Inc. set up a reporting hotline for use within and outside the company to allow employees to readily report cases of harassment without fear of retaliation.
The company also collaborated with group companies in Japan on an annual event that encouraged employees and their families to submit slogans to increase human-rights awareness. The event collected more candidate slogans in fiscal 2010 than the previous year, and helped improve human rights awareness throughout the Ajinomoto Group.
Ajinomoto Co., Inc. carried forward these initiatives into fiscal 2011, during which it is continuing training programs designed to deepen employees' awareness of human rights issues. The company will also proceed with initiatives that promote even greater respect for human rights.
Main human rights training programs conducted in fiscal 2010
| Training program | Training objectives |
|---|---|
| Training for newly hired graduates | Increase trainees' understanding of human rights-related problems that they may experience and enable them to act independently in the workplace with an awareness of human rights issues |
| Training for newly recruited employees | Examine various human rights-related problems and establish an understanding of standards of conduct as citizens and company employees who have a heightened awareness and sensitivity to human rights issues |
| Training for newly appointed managers | Raise awareness of corporate social responsibility and examine an array of human rights issues in and outside Japan to establish an understanding of evaluation criteria and standards of conduct from a global perspective |
| Training support at group companies | Study various cases of harassment and provide specific strategies for preventing harassment in the workplace |
An excellent slogan chosen by the Industrial Federation for Human Rights, Tokyo
Mitsuko Kanzaki
Quality Control Group, Main Plant, FREC DESSERT CO., LTD.11. Company name and job title are correct at the time of receiving the award