Initiatives for Human Resources Development | Sustainability

Approach to Human Resources Development

Under its corporate motto of “RAKU-GYOU-KAI-ETSU,” the Kewpie Group encourages the individual growth of each of its employees in their daily activities and also supports their career development through training and self-development programs.

Number of training participants in fiscal 2017

Organized by Human Resources Development Center	2,465
Monozukuri Gakko (Manufacturing School)	1,217
Sozai Gakko (Delicatessen School)	645
Organized by Kewpie Egg Corporation	233
Organized by Personnel Affairs Division	445
Total	5,005

Kewpie Career Assistance Framework

Personnel Appraisal System That Emphasizes Process

The Kewpie Group has introduced an appraisal system that achieves both the execution of the Group’s management strategies and the further growth of the individual. While emphasizing the value of daily process, we will reinforce the following three points.

1.Encourage the individual to take on challenges and achieve results

2.Expand OJT to realize a heightened sense of growth

3.Gain a sense of the importance of the corporate philosophy of the Kewpie Group and put them into practice

Putting into practice actions that will lead to results that are true to the Kewpie Group through Group cooperation, with this appraisal system that emphasizes process as the pivotal axis, will lead to the growth of each individual employee.

Award Schemes

At Kewpie, as a way to create a culture of active challenge and learning and to assist our employees in their career development, we have established a variety of award schemes, including the Qualifications Award. We periodically review the types of qualifications and accreditations that are eligible for the Qualifications Award.

Qualifications Award

President’s Award

Invention Award

Kewpie Research Paper Award

Kewpie Start Up Program

Career Support

In the Kewpie Group, in addition to encouraging individual growth by enhancing our specialist training and self-development programs, we support our employees in realizing their own careers with the Career Self-Declaration Scheme. In this scheme, employees share with the company and their supervisors their hopes and dreams for their work and the path they hope to follow. We have also extended our human resources development programs, such as the Corporate Philosophy Training, to all employees of the Group, including our part-time and temporary employees.

Employment Data

Employees

		FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Regular/ contract employees	Male	1,437	1,421	1,385	1,381	1,388
Regular/ contract employees	Female	1,143	1,128	1,135	1,129	1,135
Part-time/ other (average for period)	Male	271	305	314	303	270
Part-time/ other (average for period)	Female	528	613	649	623	583
Average age	Male	41.5 years	41.7 years	41.6 years	42.2 years	42.5 years
Average age	Female	31.9 years	32.6 years	33.4 years	34.3 years	35.2 years
Average years of service	Male	16.1 years	16.2 years	16.3 years	16.8 years	17.1 years
Average years of service	Female	8.2 years	8.8 years	9.3 years	10.0 years	10.7 years

Figures are for Kewpie Corporation. *Average age and average years of service are for Kewpie regular employees

Trends in employee numbers

	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Number of employees	3,379	3,467	3,483	3,436	3,376
Permanent employees	2,580	2,549	2,520	2,510	2,523
Average temporary employees	799	918	963	926	853
Group employees	23,914	24,773	24,997	25,245	26,380
Permanent employees	12,598	12,933	13,478	14,095	14,924
Average temporary employees	11,316	11,840	11,519	11,150	11,456

Number of new graduate recruits

FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
67	55	57	41	49

Figures are for Kewpie Corporation career-track positions.

Parental Leave Taken

Female employees

Male employees

Figures are for Kewpie Corporation.

*For men, parental leave taken is counted not in the year it was taken but in the year the child was born.

*Rate of leave taken: Ratio of employees who took parental leave compared to the number of employees who had a child in the year in question.

*Employees whose spouse gave birth in 2015 or 2016 but who took parental leave in 2017 have been added to the year in which the child was born, so the figures differ from last year’s report.