Human Resource Strategy
Promotion of Diversity
Diverse individuality delivers unique Kaneka value
Kaneka is striving for a diversity of ideas whereby diverse human resources deliver new value.
Since 2023, diversity has been added to the evaluation items for executives, and initiatives are being conducted at the workplace level.
We promote people without regard for educational background or years of experience and our executive team already has diverse backgrounds.
We are currently focused on policies for further expanding the opportunities for women to participate and advance.
Promoting Women’s Participation and Advancement Pivoting on Growth
Growth Opportunities at the Assistant Manager and Executive Levels
We support proactive challenges and promotions by encouraging the growth of individuals through the 1-on-1 program without regard for gender. For women, who have few leader role models, Kaneka establishes opportunities for dialogue with Independent Member of the Board Yuko Sasakawa at the executive level and Independent Member of the Board Hiromi Miyake at the assistant manager level.
This teaches participants the stance of accepting changes in role expectations as opportunities and provides the chance to gain insights.
Among participants in the initiative, there have been people promoted the next fiscal year and others who have taken on the challenge of a new business.
Promotions after Challenges
By strengthening programs of job placements, training, and mid-career hiring, we continue efforts to raise the percentage of women in executive positions. We are planning to have 80 women in executive positions in fiscal 2026, a percentage of 9%.
Over the medium to long term, we are also focused on assistant manager training to provide candidates for executive positions.
Hiring of Human Resources that Freely Excel
Efforts to Hire Women
In new hiring for administrative positions, we are hiring around the same number of women as men. At the same time, the female hiring ratio for technical positions continues to be lower than for administrative positions.
In fiscal 2023, we substantially upgraded our new graduate recruitment seminar aimed at women in the sciences, establishing opportunities
to introduce our programs for work-life balance and the careers and mindsets of women working in technical positions. As a result, we are expecting an increase in female hires for technical positions joining the company in fiscal 2025.
Acquiring Diverse Experience and Specialties
We actively conduct mid-career hiring so that diverse employees respect one another and can demonstrate their abilities.
We maintain a mid-career hiring ratio of over 40% each year to help rejuvenate the organization and to leverage diverse experience and specialties for business growth.
Promotions do not consider years of service and approximately 20% of executives are mid-career hires.
