As part of grade-specific training, we have introduced career design education to enable employees to envision their future careers, and we encourage each of them to exercise autonomy in career development. In envisioning their careers, they inevitably become aware of the gap between their ideal future self and their current self, so to help them develop the competencies they need to close that gap, we provide them with abundant opportunities for spontaneous learning, such as optional skill enhancement training, e-learning, and correspondence courses. In addition, we widely implement education necessary for all employees, such as the development of leadership, in order to create a unified language of communication within the organization and help make it stronger. Among technical employees, many of them work on the production frontline in factories. To enable the production frontline to manufacture higher quality products more safely and productively, the management abilities of foremen are key to workplace administration. Before being promoted from a supervisory position to a senior supervisory position (qualified foreman), the employee undergoes a roughly one-month training program aimed at enhancing their supervisory skills. This training improves the management abilities (including mindset and knowledge) required for the role of a foreman.
