Training System
Nifco has clearly set out the requirements and guidelines for the action of human assets able to excel at a global level based on the keywords “challenge,” “transformation,” ”future,”“ cooperation,” and“ overcoming.” Our employee training and development systems have been established with the aim of cultivating these kinds of human assets, and we make revisions and improvements to the system as necessary while listening to employee feedback and taking the changing times into consideration.
Various training programs based on the circumstances of each employee
Our training system ranges from new employee training held with everyone proceeding at the same pace to long-term development designed to cultivate global human assets. In FY2022, 2,936 employees participated in training programs hosted by the Training Center. In addition, we have established a system that facilitates self-development through a qualification acquisition incentive program and a subsidy program for external e-learning course fees.
Self-assessment system
This is a system where employees submit requests to the company through their supervisors regarding requests or feedback on their job and the workplace, their occupational aptitude, their own career plan, and so forth. The system has been implemented yearly as a means of collecting information to ensure that employees can lead a more fulfilling work life. As well as helping encourage communication with supervisors, the details of the input are fed back to management and are utilized to make improvements to the workplace environment and implement job rotations from the perspective of human asset development. There are also mechanisms for the personnel section to respond directly to individual employees as needed.
Training system chart for FY2023
Developing value-creating people who can respond to change
In creative human resource development, flexibility is required to respond to the changing times. We are committed to encouraging autonomy and self-direction by ensuring that each and every employee has a sense of ownership and a future oriented way of thinking. By learning new things, we are able to change and grow, and through individual growth we are able to repeatedly update our organization, which in turn improves our corporate value. We train our employees to look for problems on their own and to be able to work on their own initiative.
Purpose-facilitated activities (making purpose a personal issue)
As part of a project to enhance employees' planning skills, this activity promotes self-understanding and develops a sense of fulfillment and value creation. Each employee considers and verbalizes his or her own purpose (purpose of existence) and connects it to the company's purpose of “Sparking innovation by fastening small insights with technology for a better world” in order to find job satisfaction and what he or she would like to be. In FY2022, the event was held in the spring at Nagoya Plant, and it was attended by about 70 employees from various professions. The event has become an opportunity to deepen horizontal and vertical ties that transcend departmental boundaries. In the future, we intend to hold another event at Head Office to expand our connections.
Cross-border program to enhance “My Strengths”
Over the past five years, 38 people from various departments have experienced the cross-border experience. In order to gain the various insights that give rise to the “power to create change,” observation, insight, and communication skills are required. By crossing borders, coming into contact with the thoughts and values of various people, questioning the norm, thinking and acting on one's own initiative, and continually producing results, participants become aware of their strengths, and they can then hone their abilities to co-create businesses with people from other industries in the future.
Finding the "Seeds" of Society through the Business Concept Program
WWe utilize a one-year new business development project research program (Graduate School of Project Design) to develop human resources capable of envisioning, planning, and executing future concepts. While learning about business ideas, marketing, finance, etc. with colleagues from a variety of companies, students put together a business concept plan and give shape to their "ideal image" by themselves. We aim to develop human resources capable of creating as a business and formulating and realizing business concepts.
Cross-border human resources who challenge the future to co-create value
An interview with President Shibao was featured in the June issue of the monthly magazine "Jigyou Kousou (Business Concepts)" featuring Kanagawa Prefecture. In the article, President discusses his thoughts on the development of "cross-border human resources," who hold the key to new business development and innovation, and how the overlap of individual and company paths is the starting point for everything.
Developing “planning skills” in the unpredictable age of VUCA
Nowadays, it is important to be able to discover issues on your own and to have good communication skills. We focus on the quality of relationships to promote the development of small insights to find potential needs and the ability to plan based on future ideas developed with fellow participants. We also learn from each other about the power of ideas, leadership, coaching, career design, and more. The Planning Skills Program is a program for people who want to think about and create the future of the company together, and it has created a chain of connections among members.
Special marketing class by Nifco employees (Kanagawa University)
A special class on marketing was offered to 150 first to third year students of the Faculty of Business Administration. This is the fourth year that a special marketing class has been offered to 150 first- to third-year students of the Faculty of Economics. The lecture is based on the theme "Why are you working on new business?" and touches on the environment in which the company is operating and the activities being conducted within the company based on his own experience. In this age of VUCA, where it is difficult to promote new businesses within companies and the hurdles to commercialization are high, we communicate our spirit of challenge, unique ideas, and our involvement in the soil and culture that enables us to promote them. By learning about the actual activities of companies, we also contribute to students' interest in the real world and their own ideas.
Value creation training for new employees
As part of the creative development of human resources, this program aims to help participants acquire the ability to work on their own through their own desire to grow. The 11 days of training enable participants to acquire the thinking ability and skills of value creation through imagination, leadership, team building, and communication skills. Participants develop their confidence by creating proposals and hand-drawn idea drawings, learning to express their ideas in a communicative manner, and presenting their ideas as a team in a proposal creation process with the help and advice of senior employees.
The quality of relationships of the in-house social networking community strengthens the organization
We are working to improve engagement by enhancing cross-departmental connections and dialogue online, promoting learning and tolerance from the insights of other employees, and actively communicating with them to share ideas and thoughts. The program is also used as a “community space” inside and outside the company, with 600 participants, or 45% of employees, working with their peers to strengthen the organization by building on the quality of relationships to achieve common goals.
