Human Assets Strategy

The core of our value creation and our most important capital is “human assets.” The growth of human assets, coupled with the sustainable growth of our business, will lead to the sustainable growth of our enterprise value.
The basic approach to our human assets strategy is to strengthen the recruitment of human assets who support corporate growth and to create an environment in which they can grow autonomously and demonstrate their abilities.

Human Assets That Support Our Business: Career-Type Human Assets

Our unique approach to “career-type human assets”

We have uniquely specified “career-type human assets” as the type of human assets we seek, and we share these values with our employees while focusing on their development.

What are “career-type human assets”?

We define “career-type human assets” as employees who are human assets that take ownership of their career by being their own manager, manage their own careers, and continue to provide great value to society, thereby contributing to the enhancement of enterprise value.
Career-type human assets:
❶ take ownership of their own life career;
❷ leverage the Company’s environment to improve
❸ their work-career capabilities (management capabilities and expertise);
❹ achieve integration with their private career (work-life integration);
❺ autonomously build and develop their own work career; and
❻ possess unique traits (that define their individuality). 

Management capabilities

❶ Ability to assume the role of a manager, seek what is needed, and perform tasks responsibly and with integrity in order to fulfill the necessary requirements
❷ Ability to not only develop one’s own career but also support others in developing their careers

Expertise

❶ Ability to fulfill the needs of one’s clients through expertise in specific practices by performing tasks responsibly and with integrity while maintaining diverse perspectives
❷ Ability to not only acquire expertise in specific practices but also support others in improving their expertise

Four requirements for improving management capabilities

In our view, career-type human assets are human assets who take ownership of their own career, i.e., those who see themselves as their own manager. We believe that improving the abilities associated with the following four requirements, 
which we have set forth as requirements for managers, will lead to growth as career-type human assets.

❶ Ability to realize the corporate mission  (Vision)

  • Ability to illuminate the sustainable value of the Takashima’s existence from a medium- to long-term perspective, spearhead innovation on their own, and improve enterprise value on an ongoing basis

❷ Progress × fit (Design)

  • Ability to create businesses while constantly learning (design skills), ability to respond to changes in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environments, and the ability to build sustainable businesses and organizations and to appoint and develop human assets

❸ Integrity

  • Integrity and honesty; trustworthiness and credibility in the eyes of those inside and outside the Company; and the ability to assume top management responsibilities and to make decisions

❹ Ability to align the direction for the whole organization (Communication)

  • Ability to listen to and empathize with others with understanding of and respect for individual diversity, logical and analytical skills, deep insight, ability to  utilize digital technology, and global responsiveness

Career model

The Company will present employees with its vision of career-type human assets and create the right environment and provide opportunities for employees to grow and develop into such assets.

In order for our employees, our most important capital, to grow into the career-type human assets that we seek, we present our employees with a career map for career-type human assets so that they can create their own career visions.
Our employees plan their own career by taking ownership of their career, and through the use of our dual-track personnel system and with the support and encouragement of their superiors, they will achieve growth as career-type human assets.

Training and education framework

We seek to ensure that our employees are able to perform in alignment with job-class definitions through skill development by job class.

[Generalist-track employment]

[Administrative-track employment]

Our unique approach to “career-type human assets”

Differently from membership-type or job-type human assets, we have established our own unique “career-type human assets” and are focusing on their development.

What are “career-type human assets?”

Career-type human assets are those who improve continuously their management capabilities and expertise, design themselves’  medium- to long-term goals, and elevate their careers inside and outside the Company.

“Career-type human assets” development system

  • Employees themselves: designing medium- to long-term goals themselves using the framework of the Company
  • Superiors of employees: providing support for the achievement of individual employee career goals by creating an environment in which employees can elevate their careers and by providing appropriate feedback