4. TALENT DEVELOPMENT 4. Developing diverse human resources
A workforce with a diverse range of values is an asset to a company’s sustained growth.
In the interest of boosting corporate value in the medium to long term, we will continue to hire and promote regardless of sex, nationality, or other personal attributes.
Human Resource Development Policy
SUN-WA Technos’s worth is dependent on its human resources.
We develop personnel who challenge themselves and work hard towards self-actualization.
We work to enable a diverse range of personnel to thrive, promote work style reforms, and strive to create a workplace environment that respects each employee’s individuality and draws upon their strengths.
The mindset and skills that are at the core of SUN-WA TECHNOS’s human resources are the SUN-WA Spirits.Together with the SUN-WA Spirits, we strive to achieve the mission laid out in our long-term vision, SUN-WA Vision 2030, and to that end we promote three key concepts: “Customer First,” “Spirit of Challenge,” and “Teamwork and Communication.”
SUN-WA Vision 2030
SUN-WA Spirits
Main Initiatives
SUN-WA College educational and training program
We provide position-specific training programs that build talent from a variety of angles, including global personnel development, technical training for specific types of work, and business skills training.We provide a “visible” training system that supports the growth of businesspeople and leaders who embody the “Spirit of Challenge” and “Customer First” philosophy that has been in our company DNA since the very beginning. This training framework promotes self-development among personnel.
SUN-WA Global Next Leader Training
Promising individuals from Japan and around the world are chosen to participate in this program that develops personnel for management positions in which they act in line with the SUN-WA TECHNOS philosophy and values.This training program will boost personnel’s sense of belonging to the company, boost motivation so that they display leadership in the workplace, and thereby strengthen the SUN-WA global network.
Promotion of women to management positions
As an initiative to promote women’s success at the workplace, our company works to build an environment in which female personnel can work for the long term, providing childcare support so personnel can strike a balance between work and raising a family, in addition to providing extensive employee welfare and benefits.Moreover, we aim to promote women to management and officer positions by providing extensive training programs. Our aim is to have women account for over 10% of management positions by 2030.
Women’s proportion of management positions: 9.8% (As of April 2024)
“Envisioning the SUN-WA Centennial” Future Discussion Forum
This discussion forum is for personnel who will be the core of the company around 2050, when SUN-WA TECHNOS celebrates one century since its founding.Participants predict and imagine what Japan and the world will be like in the near future around 2050 (backcasting), then search for the direction that the company should take in the present.The content of the discussion is free and not sector- or field-specific. Participants discuss the production of new commodities, the development of new ways of selling products, the acquisition of new sources of supply, and the creation of new organizations as they create a future medium-term management plan.
Intrapreneurship program
This training program aims to cultivate entrepreneurs within the company, with the aim of encouraging self-development and growth as businesspeople by having participants search for ideas for new lines of business that will help achieve SUN-WA Technos’s growth strategy, as well as having them create commercialization opportunities, and try to set up new businesses themselves.
Respecting human rights
The SUN-WA TECHNOS Group has established the following human rights policy to serve as the basis for our business activities. The policy serves as a set of guidelines to promote initiatives to respect human rights across the entire Group and ensure its responsibilities are fulfilled. It is based on documents including the International Bill of Human Rights, which stipulates the fundamental human rights that all people in the world deserve; the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights; the International Labour Organization (ILO) Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work; and other human rights principles and international norms, ensuring they are supported and adhered to.