[Priority issue 2] Develop and Utilize Diverse Human Resources"Outline of Activities in FY2014: Human Resources Development"

Fujifilm is working on human resources development strategically in order to cultivate each employee's strengths and characteristics and maximize their abilities. In such training, “strengthening the mind” and “strengthening work processes” are particularly valued. For young employees in their first three years in the company, senior staff members play roles as mentors to support them to set their action targets to acquire self-reliant action skills and learning through experiences from repeatedly attaining their targets. For more experienced employees and managers, training is given to encourage their self improvement and enhance their ability to complete projects by closely involving the others. In FY2014, a variety of training was held under the themes of “reinforcing key management talent,” “reinforcing careers,” “reinforcing young human resources,” “training for promotion candidates,” “functional reinforcement (R&D, production, sales, and staff),” “career design for female workers,” “diversity management,” and “enhancing communication skills.”

The efforts in cultivating global talent, which started full operations in FY2011, focus on scheduled training to develop global skills and mindsets, and creating opportunities for employees to work globally under the concept of “Development and use of talent regardless of nationality or gender, etc.” Other training offers practical contents, including organized training for those employees appointed to overseas positions, and overseas onsite training to learn from the actual experience in local workplaces. For employees of overseas subsidiaries, we are conducting the FUJIFILM Global Leadership Seminar for management level employees and other programs to disseminate the FUJIFILM WAY. The Regional Leadership Seminars, programs for regional management level employees, were provided in China in FY2014, in addition to North America and Europe. The FUJIFILM WAY training program was also offered in the Asia Pacific areas, and the trainings were conducted in the six countries of Germany, Netherland, the U.S., Brazil, China, and Singapore in FY2014.

The human resources that Fuji Xerox is seeking are those who can “think and act on their own” with the ability to adapt to changes and generate revolutions. To ensure that each employee can develop their competencies in a self-reliant, self-directed way and create careers in which they can sense their own growth, Fuji Xerox as a company implements a range of measures, including personnel training and education. Following on from the previous year, Fuji Xerox held problem solving training in FY2014 across the Company and domestic affiliated companies in order to foster a workplace climate conducive to resolving issues based on a consistently scientific approach. We also continued reform of the education systems for job type training (research, development, production, SE, CE, and sales) and rank-based training (new graduates, young workers, leaders, and managers).

Fuji Xerox is also working on acquiring and educating human resources who can lead our business globalization to accelerate business expansion in the Asia Pacific market and beyond. Concretely, we employ and utilize human resources of many different nationalities, and provide programs to reinforce the global competence of the next generation of leaders. In FY2014, overseas job training was reinforced. Such changes included increasing the number of temporary staff members in training, setting up long-term courses, expanding the conditions for domestic affiliate company employees to apply for training programs, and accepting trainees for overseas work training.