Together with Employees

Promoting Diversity

Employee Diversity

Emphasizing the importance of equal opportunity and diversity in hiring and compensation

Konica Minolta believes that the creation of an environment where its diverse employees can demonstrate the full extent of their capabilities is vital to the growth of a company. The Group places importance on equal opportunity and diversity in the hiring and compensation of employees, and actively promotes opportunities for its employees to grow professionally regardless of nationality or gender.

Cultivating and Promoting "Global Personnel"

As its business has become more globalized, Konica Minolta has endeavored to promote personnel management strategies aimed at cultivating and promoting employees with global business savvy.
As part of these efforts, Konica Minolta is promoting the hiring and active use of foreign workers in its Group companies in Japan. It is reinforcing personnel exchanges between Group companies in Japan and affiliated companies outside Japan.
In fiscal 2010 it introduced the Group-wide Global Executive Program for leader development.

• Personnel training and effective utilization of skills

Support for Women to Exercise their Capabilities

Konica Minolta rejects gender discrimination in every case, including hiring, compensation, training, and promotion, so that all of its employees are able to fully develop their capabilities. It promotes systems that support a work-life balance, and encourages the creation of work environments that prevent the incidence of harassment.
The Group focuses on the active promotion of female employees into management positions. To achieve this, Konica Minolta is planning to conduct training aimed at raising the level of interest in career development among female employees, and to promote the activation by building networks between female employees. The Group is also working to raise managers’ awareness of opportunities to promote female employees.

Hiring of Handicapped Employees

Konica Minolta has created a workplace environment in which all employees, regardless of handicap, can maximally demonstrate their capabilities and safely carry out their work. The employment rate of handicapped personnel at the Group companies in Japan was 1.85% in fiscal 2009, but additional efforts need to be made to continue to increase this percentage.

Promoting Work-Life Balance

Finding ways to help employees balance work-life responsibilities

Konica Minolta is striving to enhance its system to provide the support employees need to achieve a satisfying work-life balance. The goal is to ensure that employees are able to fully demonstrate their skills and capabilities in the workplace while also achieving a fulfilling personal life that includes family, community, and self-development.
A program allowing employees to work at home during child-rearing years was introduced in October 2009. This system allows employees to work from home one to two days per week. The program is proving quite effective with an increasing number of employees, including men, taking part. In January 2011, the Group received for the second consecutive year Honorable Mention in the Telework Promotion Awards presented by the Japan Telework Association in recognition of such initiatives.

Work-life Balance Support Program Use (Fiscal 2010)

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Scope: Regular employees at the holding company, business companies and common function companies in Japan.