Important Sustainability Issues (Materiality)

Material Issue 3 Realizing mutual growth of employees and the company

Commitment

By investing in the growth of our employees, we maximize the performance of our "human assets" with their diverse individuality and strengths, thereby expanding the scope of our Dedication to Service (Oyakudachi) to all stakeholders.

The Mandom Group lists Human Assets as one of the MANDOM PRINCIPLES in the Mandom mission and has continued since its founding to view all Mandom Group employees as valuable "assets." It is based on this Human Assets principle that the Mandom Group's HR philosophy, “Happy individuals make a happy company,” was formulated.

Based on this HR philosophy, Mandom actively invests in the growth of its employees and aims to "realize mutual growth of employees and the company" by having all employees capitalize on their diverse individuality and strengths to perform to the best of their ability (individuals' happiness), which in turn allows the company to grow and enhance their Dedication to Service (Oyakudachi) to society (Company’s happiness). For this reason, the Mandom Group is promoting a variety of human asset initiatives based on this perspective of "mutual growth."

Related SDGs

Efforts

Initiatives to inspire diverse human assets to deliver exceptional performance

Four elements of human assets we aim to acquire and develop in the future

In moving toward increased creation of future innovation within the Mandom Group, we are promoting initiatives with the aim of acquiring and developing human assets who possess any one of the following four elements:

Cultural background	To promote future Group management, we aim to build and develop a human asset pool of individuals with diverse cultural backgrounds that are capable of out-of-the-box thinking and formulation of ideas.
Work history (experience in other industries/other companies, job types)	We aim to develop and acquire human assets who are not bound by conventional ideas and methods, but can think from new perspectives honed through experiences in other industries and companies.
Gender	We aim for diversity in human assets from a gender perspective in order to realize Dedication to Service (Oyakudachi) to all consumers with diverse values based on gender.
Age	For Dedication to Service (Oyakudachi) tailored to each generation, we aim to develop and acquire human assets of a similar age that share similar behavioral cultures and values with the brand target.

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“Gender diversity” and “age diversity” are elements of “statistical diversity,” but due to the nature of our business, the Mandom Group considers them to be elements of human assets that can contribute to creating innovation within the Mandom Group.

Promoting women's active engagement in the workplace（Diversity in “gender”）

The Mandom Group is committed to promoting the active participation of women in the workplace, aiming to improve both the work environment and job satisfaction of female employees. On June 1, 2022, Mandom received the highest ranking three-star certification as Osaka City's Leading Company in Women's Advancement. In the certification project for 2022, in addition, we received the Award of Excellence in the large companies category, a commendation by the Mayor of Osaka for our efforts in increasing the proportion of women in managerial posts and developing well-qualified female managers and our efforts in providing support to women balancing childcare and their career and promoting a more flexible way of working.

In addition, the ratio of female managers is increasing year by year, and we will continue to work systematically towards achieving our goal of having a female managerial ratio of 20% or more by FY 2027.

＊ The City of Osaka started this certification project with the aim of giving public recognition to companies that promote the advancement of women in their workplace thereby promoting activities to this effect in wider society. Companies have to meet set criteria to receive certification in recognition of their effort in creating an organization where motivated women can continue to participate positively, in providing support to work-life balance, and in promoting the participation of men in homemaking activities. As of February 1, 2024, the certification status was as follows: 133 three-star companies, 500 two-star companies, 237 one-star companies, and 137 companies that have been certified as evolving companies.

Reference

For more information on our efforts to enhance the performance of our human assets, please refer to the following page.

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