Support growth (training, reskilling, career development)
Aiming to transform into a company where individuality and strengths of each employee are fully realized, our group provides various training programs to support the growth of each employee by providing learning opportunities and career advancement support.
Human Resources Development
At Wacoal Corp., we believe that our development as a company is dependent upon efforts to enhance the qualifications of each employee and his/her support. Based on this belief and with the aim of fostering personnel who can put our management philosophy into practice, we support career and personal development by providing training programs that support the development of employees’ careers and professional skills, as well as self-development support programs to promote employees’ self-study.
In addition, we conduct human resources development based on the skills required in particular fields. For example, we provide training to maintain and enhance the quality and product competitiveness, such as basic manufacturing trainings, as well as programs aimed at promoting customer satisfaction by heightening employees’ consultative capabilities. Other key initiatives include passing on our highly competitive manufacturing techniques and enhancing quality and productivity on a global basis by providing support and direction through technical experts dispatched from Japan to overseas factories.
New Personnel Development System
With the aims of fostering autonomous, innovative personnel who can put its management philosophy into practice and creating a culture conducive to employees’ growth as individuals, Wacoal Corp. introduced the Wacoal Terakoya personnel development system in April 2019. The new system helps employees take the initiative in building their careers and continue learning by offering a wider selection of training options beyond rank-based training as well as more opportunities to volunteer as a project participant. In addition to modifying our programs to increase the focus on productivity and practical training, we are conducting joint training with other companies to expose employees to diverse viewpoints. By fostering personnel who are able to create new value through the implementation of our management philosophy, we will sustain growth in a changing business environment.
Highlights of Our Human Resources Development Programs:
| Name of Program | Purpose | Period/No. of hrs. of training per person | Annual number of participants | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiscal Year ended March 2022 | Fiscal Year ended March 2023 | ||||
| Rank-Based Training Program | Helps employees understand the roles and the mindset expected of them in new ranks or positions and gives employees an opportunity to consider their career plans in the context of the company’s strategies | 1 to 6 days (depending on program) |
811 | 684 | |
| Business Skills | Enables employees to learn the skills needed by businesspeople through exchanges with personnel inside and outside the company and to acquire universal business skills usable inside and outside the company | 7.5 hours | 58 | 61 | |
| Wacoal Academy | Shares in-house knowledge, passes on knowledge, and develops organizations through training and seminars conducted by in-house and external instructors | 7 hours~ | 2334 | 1217 | |
| Global Talent Development | Develops globally competent personnel who have international communication skills (the ability to execute duties, language skills, and the ability to work in and understand other cultures), underpinning the increasing globalization of the business | Overseas job training | 2 years | 5 | 4 |
| Overseas language training | 6 months | * | * | ||
| Global communication training | 1 day | * | * | ||
| Self-Study | Supports the autonomous development and enhancement of employee capabilities by providing e-learning content that can be studied anywhere at any time | Self-study support program | - | 36 | 160 |
| Distance learning/E-learning | - | 253 | 2138 | ||
*Cancelled due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic
Reskilling
At Wacoal Corp., we are working to develop human resources through reskilling (relearning) to ensure that our employees have the skills necessary for business growth and new business. During the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, we have launched the operation of an online learning tool as a part of initiatives to raise the level of IT literacy to improve labor productivity of office work.
Career Development
At Wacoal Corp., we are working to develop human resources capable of generating innovation by expanding the “Internal Job Challenge” program, which allows employees to personally request transfers, and “Outside Career Challenge” program, which allows employees to gain experiences that are not available within the company through secondment to companies and organizations outside our group, to increase opportunities for employees to develop their careers on their own initiative. In addition, by expanding the divisions that are eligible for regular internal recruitment and by including group companies in such divisions, we have broadened the range of options and the number of eligible applicants, and introduced a system that allows both employees and organization to actively develop their careers and acquire human resources.
Meet My Career Program
Wacoal Corp. has introduced the “Meet My Career Program”, which aims to have employees develop their career independently and actively by expanding the diverse systems and structures for career development and to enhance job satisfaction and revitalize organization by promoting career autonomy. In this program, in addition to conventional self-assessment, career interviews, training / self-development, and transfers, the system providing opportunities for employees to proactively open up possibilities and their careers, such as job challenges and internal recruitment, outside career challenges, long-term leave, and side-work, is systematically demonstrated. With this, we aim to accelerate the realization of diverse career development for people by encouraging employees to actively implement a variety of ways to work, and at the same time, by providing employees with opportunities to acquire new skills, and refine them. Furthermore, starting from fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, we are implementing new initiatives such as “Meet My First Career”, an event to match new employees with departments that wish to accept them for assignment of new employees with career-track positions.
| Name of Program | Purpose | Number of Applicants | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fiscal Year ended March 2022 | Fiscal Year ended March 2023 | ||
| Job Challenge, Internal Recruitment | As a part of forming self-reliance human resources: “Job Challenge” supports job rotation opportunities for those who express desires to self-transfer based on their own will and motivation, thereby revitalizing the organization as a whole; “Internal Recruitment” will strengthen the departments by acquiring the human resources that they seek, thereby revitalizing the entire internal organization. |
15 | 18 |
| Outside Career Challenge | In times of rapid changes, this program helps employees enhance adaptability and resilience by incorporating diverse perspectives and values, updating knowledge and reskilling through work experience outside the company. | 19 | 38 |
| Side-Work |
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40 | 38 |
| Long-term Leave Program | This program supports the continuation of employment by allowing absence for a certain period of time “for the purpose of self-enlightenment and self-development” and “if a spouse relocates or if an employee marries someone who lives in a remote area”. | 3 | 5 |