Our Way of Thinking on Human Resources

The glass business requires a lot of time and significant investment to develop materials and processes; hence, if you want to develop innovative products and achieve sustainable growth, you cannot simply chase short-term profit. We prioritize our human resources as drivers of long-term value creation and strive to create an environment where highly engaged employees with diverse values and a long-term perspective undertake challenging work.

In 2020, we set forth an ideal for our personnel that they would be persons capable of performing at a world-class level in all areas. In order to help them achieve this, we have established a variety of growth and development programs, including level-specific training, career education, and self-development programs. Also, in order to create a more employee-friendly environment, we are working to accommodate greater flexibility in work styles and to pursue measures for occupational health and safety and health and productivity management. In terms of human resource management, we are working in a variety of areas to improve employee motivation, such as by revising our skills and performance-based remuneration system and improving how we treat rehired employees.

Hiring a Diverse Workforce

As we believe that employees are the foundation of a company’s growth, we hire a diverse range of human resources regardless of their gender, age, nationality, or other characteristics.
As well, in addition to expanding the number of recent graduates hired, we also incorporate new recruiting methods and approaches. For example, we hire highly qualified, mid-career professionals and leverage our connections with researchers to recruit personnel. We also make use of referral recruitment when hiring employees locally. Even amidst accelerating job mobility, we are creating a wide range of entry points, such as for previous NEG employees to be rehired, to help us in securing a diverse workforce.

We are also a proactive employer of people with disabilities. In 1980, we established a special-purpose subsidiary aimed at employing people with disabilities. We were among the first six companies in Japan to do so. Since then, we have sought to increase our employment rate for people with disabilities to 4.6%, which is double the statutory requirement, and have hired people with disabilities as full-time employees. Moving forward, we will continue to employ people with disabilities.

Human Resource Development

In order to attain our goal of becoming the world’s leading manufacturer of special glass, we need to have personnel capable of performing at a world-class level in all areas. We help our employees to better themselves by offering them a range of study opportunities, such as on-the-job training, level-specific training, global human resource training, skills training, and self-development programs that include acquiring industry certification. We will continue to provide our employees with further training, which will help them get to that next level.