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Workplace and Personnel Development

We are making efforts to achieve a work/life balance so that our employees can feel a sense of fulfillment in their work while also being fully active in their family and community, and we are actively striving to promote diversity and enact similar measures to respond to the changes in the world at large. We are also trying to create comfortable workplaces and develop capable human resources in order to achieve work style innovation.

Work Style Innovation

"Work Style Innovation" measures are being implemented throughout the entire KOBE STEEL GROUP in order to fully enhance the work and life of each individual employee. The KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY GROUP is actively developing and expanding "Work Style Innovation Activities" in order to improve "Individual happiness" and "Corporate happiness" by limiting working hours and making work tasks more sophisticated. The following are examples of some specific measures implemented through these activities we have been carrying out.

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Human Resources Development

We are advancing human resource development by fostering and instilling the awareness and skills that are required at each level in employees through level-specific training. Also, we are supporting employees who study independently through selectable distance learning programs as well as e-learning that can be done during the employee's free time. In addition to education for skills and knowledge, in order to quickly integrate mid-career hires with various backgrounds and new hires into the company, we think it is important to provide support and solutions that allow them to grow. Through initiatives that promote diversity and work reforms, we are aiming to create an environment where employees can work energetically and be able to learn.

Level-specific training
We are preparing content that is appropriate for the awareness and skills required at each level.

Distance learning
We are preparing programs where employees can select what they want to study.

Company-wide e-learning
We are introducing a system where employees can study the things that are important for employees to know, such as compliance and legal information, during their free time.

Elder systems
Elders support new hires, who have various expectations and concerns when joining the company, and follow-up with them to ensure that they integrate smoothly into the new environment.

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Our Training System

Watching KOBELCO Advance

IMPRESSION
Interior Design Engineering Gr.,
Product Design Engineering Dept.,
Product Development Engineering Div.

Miki Kai

Miki Kai

Workplaces Enabling Personal Work Styles

In my previous job, I tried, in a somewhat forced manner, to adjust my working style to match the pace of persons working around me, but since at KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY we have been recommended to resolve issues related to forced or wasteful actions, I have changed my awareness of my working style accordingly. In the future, I would like to continue to transform my work style to better suit me as I search for improvements to the environment and work efficiency.

IMPRESSION
Manufacturing Sec.,
Ogaki Factory, Production Div.

Ikuho Nakagawa

Ikuho Nakagawa

Improved Quality due to Improvements from a Woman's Perspective

As an assembly line inspector, I inspect the specification drawings, appearance of, and similar conditions of compact excavators. An idea of ours that was adopted was to indicate inspection content in numeric values, etc. to provide an objective approach to inspection. This improved quality by decreasing the work flaws in prior processes. I would like to continue to work to maintain the high quality of our products and for women to continue to play an active role in the workplace.

IMPRESSION
Engineering Management Gr.(Okubo Office)

Xiao Ziheng

Xiao Ziheng

Providing Safety and Security All Across the World

I investigate and check laws and regulations in order to ensure that our products comply with the rules of each country. Although, for this reason, I am having to grapple with Japanese, English, and Chinese on a daily basis, I feel very happy to be useful in improving confidence in our products. I am not yet very knowledgeable or experienced, but I would like to continue to challenge myself to provide safety and security across the globe.

* Names of departments are those when originally reported