Last updated: September 2026
Initiatives for Human Resource Development
The Nifco Group believes that the challenges taken on and the growth achieved by each individual lead to the creation of new value. We provide a wide range of opportunities for learning and for taking on challenges so that employees can learn on their own initiative, broaden their horizons and grow through collaboration with diverse people. Through these initiatives, we promote the development of human resources who “make Ideas a Reality.”
Human resource development results (FY2025)
| Item | Results / details |
|---|---|
| Training framework | Offered in six categories |
| Cross-border Program | 74 participants to date |
| Internal social network community | Approximately 1,500 participants |
| Global Employee Engagement Survey | Conducted on an ongoing basis |
Supporting Growth
Training framework and career self-declaration system
We have put in place level-based training, career development support, self-development, language learning, selection-based programs and e-learning, and support each employee’s career development through our career self-declaration system. We ascertain employees’ own wishes and aptitudes and utilize this information in human resource development and in personnel assignment and development measures. We also encourage independent growth while remaining attentive to each employee’s career aspirations and development needs.
FY2025 Training Framework Chart
Nurturing Careers
Development tailored to each career stage
Nifco offers development programs tailored to each career stage, including those for newly hired graduates, mid-career hires and managers. In addition to the acquisition of specialized knowledge, we support independent career development and the building of connections across departments.
In training for newly hired graduates, participants deepen their understanding of Nifco’s products and manufacturing while learning the fundamentals of working life.
Training for mid-career hires supports their understanding of our business and their acquisition of specialized knowledge.
In addition, career design training provides opportunities for employees to think proactively about their own careers.
Broadening Horizons and Creating New Value
Language training and the Overseas Trainee Program
To develop human resources who support our global business operations, we promote language learning and the Overseas Trainee Program. In addition to providing opportunities to learn English and Japanese, we foster cross-cultural understanding and a global perspective through practical work experience overseas. Under the Overseas Trainee Program, we send and receive personnel between Japan and our overseas sites, deepening their global perspective and cross-cultural understanding.
Cross-border Program
To develop human resources who will pioneer the future, we make active use of six cross-border programs, tailored to each participant’s objectives and experience, that bring employees into contact with organizations outside the Company. Over the past seven years, a cumulative total of 74 employees have participated. By placing themselves in the workplaces of startups and companies in other industries, employees from a wide range of departments and job types have honed their “ability to create change.”
In these programs, the “power of awareness”—including observation, insight, empathy and communication skills—is essential. By reexamining what they take for granted in daily life, encountering different values, and repeatedly experiencing thinking and acting on their own initiative, participants have opportunities to become aware of their own strengths and potential.
Such cross-border experience leads not only to individual growth but also to stronger capabilities for co-creating business with other industries and for driving work forward on their own initiative. Furthermore, by bringing the learning and perspectives gained back into the Company, participants encourage those around them to take on challenges, and this expands into a force that generates change throughout the organization.
In addition, to help participants take a further step forward within the Company after their cross-border activities, we have created a community centered on those with cross-border experience, providing a place to share the new challenges each of them is taking on. As they share what they have learned within the Company, new perspectives and ideas spread through the organization, helping to build a foundation for value creation.
Overview of the cross-border programs
Fostering a Culture of Co-creation
Internal Social Network Community
Employees connect with one another online across departments and sites, sharing their day-to-day insights and new endeavors. This initiative started in 2020 and has now grown into a community in which approximately 1,500 employees participate.
In addition to expanding connections, we are now working to link the dialogue and insights generated there to day-to-day work and to new challenges. By sharing what they have learned through training and cross-border experience, employees expand individual growth into knowledge for the entire organization. This cycle of learning serves as a foundation for new endeavors and co-creation.
Introduction to the various teams in our internal social network community (1)
Introduction to the various teams in our internal social network community (2)
The Nifco Group promotes human resource development that supports each individual’s learning and efforts to take on challenges and, through co-creation with diverse people, connects individual growth to the growth of the organization and to the creation of new value.