A Flexible and Powerful Organization Capable of Adapting to Changing Business Environments

The MC Group’s global workforce is made up of a diverse group of employees in terms of lifestyles and values. As the MC Group’s businesses rapidly become more global and diverse, MC recognizes that it will be essential to drive growth while encouraging a diverse range of employees to share common values and engage in healthy competition with one another. Doing so will be vital for achieving sustainable corporate growth. We believe that the significance of diversity management at the MC Group lies in building a strong organization with the flexibility to adapt to changing business environments. In sharing the spirit of its guiding philosophy, the Three Corporate Principles, the MC Group aims to:

• Recruit and apply its broad professional expertise without discrimination.
• Reap the benefits of workforce diversity by embracing and applying different perspectives and ideas to its management practices, business creations and regional developments.
• Improve organizational performance by ensuring an inclusive professional work environment that maximizes the abilities of a diverse workforce.

Reference:Diagram of the Sustainability Promotion Framework

In 2007, MC established its first organization specifically dedicated to diversity management in the Global Human Resources Department (originally named the Work Environment Support Office, it was renamed as the Diversity Management Promotion Office the following year). Thereafter, following reorganization, MC established the Health Promotion, D＆I Team in April 2021. This team strives to enhance and expand support measures for employees balancing work with childcare or family care responsibilities. It also considers measures such as initiatives to create welcoming workplaces for non-Japanese employees. MC will continue to undertake initiatives to further improve its work environments in order to ensure that each employee in its diverse workforce is able to keep motivated and achieve his or her own full potential.

Supporting Employees with Family Responsibilities

MC has been improving its internal systems to enable employees to better balance matters such as childcare and family care with their careers. MC will continue to focus on building a corporate culture that embraces diverse work styles in order to create a comfortable and supportive atmosphere that understands and encourages the active utilization of these systems.

MC considers its workforce to be its greatest asset, and as such, its policy is to support the professional growth and development of each and every employee through flexible, performance-based treatment and compensation. To ensure that the right people are appointed to the right positions, MC focuses on the skills, performance and experience of each candidate, and does not discriminate based on age, gender, nationality or any other factors. To best accommodate the needs of female professionals and help them to excel, MC has established a five-year plan to support its working women. The plan’s targets and initiatives are described below. 

Plan Period: April 1, 2021 – March 31, 2026

Targets and Initiatives

〇 Target 1: Encourage more high-level appointments of female employees and raise the percentage of women in management-level positions above 15%.

By expanding its systems to promote a healthy work-life balance and taking special, career-support measures for its female professionals, MC has managed to boost this percentage in recent years; however, the company now plans to take the following, additional steps to further accelerate its appointment of women to executive positions:

〈Description of initiatives〉

• Leverage job recruitment sessions, the company website and other PR tools to proactively target female candidates for positions at MC and boost the percentage of job applications from women.
• Instruct the Women’s Career Managers to analyze and address any separate issues that may exist within their respective departments (in addition to their general responsibilities under MC’s companywide policy).
• Develop/ roll out training programs and networking opportunities that are specially designed for working women (this initiative shall be part of MC’s overarching aim to rear management professionals who are committed to raising the value of MC Group businesses).
• Enhance support for working women, such as by offering a mentorship program aimed at further motivating women in executive positions and broadening their perspectives.
• Provide more support to ensure that women can enjoy a healthy work-life balance by accommodating flexible work styles (assist early returns from maternity or paternity leave and help women to secure full-time positions).
• Take measures to improve the managerial and negotiating skills of all employees, regardless of background, in order to ready them for management-level positions.

〇 Target 2: Ensure that all eligible male employees take their  full paternity leave.

Although in recent years more working fathers at MC have been taking paternity leave and doing so for longer periods, many are still not taking full advantage of the program. MC shall continue working on improvements that will both raise awareness of the program and make it easier for male employees with newborns to use it.

〈Description of initiatives〉

• Separately remind both each male employee with a newborn and his superior about his eligible paternity leave.
• Encourage male employees to use the program through roundtable discussions with those who already have, internal PR work and other initiatives.
• Use internal training programs to explain diverse work styles, support for achieving a healthy work-life balance, and diversity management (including making better use of the expertise of MC’s female employees).

The awareness and attitudes towards working beyond the age of 60 differs widely from one person to the next, and opinions on the subject are likely to vary even more in the coming years. Besides introducing its Re- Employment Course System for extending the careers of employees aged 60 and over, MC also enhances the functions of its Career Design Team, which provides comprehensive support for senior employees.

The Career Design Team establishes and manages a human resources (HR) system exclusively for senior employees. Individualized arrangements are made with each employee who wishes to continue working beyond the age of 60 or who would like to consider their future life/ career. Comprehensive support is available through the provision of various information and training programs, collection of recruitment information, job matching services, and other means.

Functions of the Career Design Team

As part of its CSR and diversity initiatives, MC has a long and proud history of employing persons with impairments. Together with its special-purpose subsidiary, Mitsubishi Shoji & Sun Co., Ltd., MC will continue its efforts in expanding career opportunities for persons with various impairments, while maintaining the statutory employment rate for these workers.

Data on Employees Using MC’s Various Systems (As of March 31 Each Year)

1. ＊1 Number of employees who began taking childcare leave during said fiscal year (ending in March).
2. ＊2 Number of male employees whose spouses gave birth during said fiscal year ended March 31, number of female employees who gave birth during said fiscal year (ending in March).
3. ＊3 Number of male employees who began taking childcare leave the previous fiscal year (ending in March) who had returned to their positions at the end of said fiscal year (ending in March) , number of female employees who gave birth during the previous fiscal year (ending in March) who had returned to workcare at the end of said fiscal year (ending in March).
4. ＊4 Percentage of male employees who began childcare leave the previous fiscal year (ending in March) who had returned to their positions at the end of said fiscal year (ending in March), percentage of female employees who had given birth during the previous fiscal year (ending in March) who had returned to work at the end of said fiscal year (ending in March).
5. ＊5 Re-employment system for employees accompanying spouses on domestic or international transfers refers to a system in which re-employment is offered, under certain conditions, to employees who resign from their positions in order to accompany their spouse to the location of a domestic or international transfer.

MC Women Overseas (As of April 2021)

• The statutory employment rate of persons with impairments (private-sector companies) was raised from 2.2% to 2.3% on March 1, 2021.
• The total of the non-consolidated company, Mitsubishi Corporation Taiyo, a special subsidiary, and the three companies applicable to the group.

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