Direction of human resources strategy
Our human resource mission is to connect “people” and “business” and achieve growth for both. To generate vitality, we adhere to an HR policy that supports the potential of individuals who are willing to take on challenges, provides appropriate recognition for those who deliver results, and fosters an environment where diverse human resources can work with vigor and enthusiasm. We are shifting our perspective from perceiving and managing employees as “resources” in the traditional sense to viewing them as “capital” and supporting their utilization and growth and encouraging them to take on new challenges. For further business growth, we are making various investments in human capital, including skill development, engagement improvement, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I), and health management, so that our employees can work with enthusiasm and vigor and take on ever-greater growth and challenges.
We will continue to promote our human resource strategy with an awareness of the linkage between employee growth and our business strategy.
HR policies
To sustain the growth and success of our businesses and be an organization with positive, highly motivated employees, SoftBank has set policies that as a company we must value and promotes various HR initiatives.
Framework
of the human
resources
strategy
Encourage active roles for diverse human resources
Up until now we have promoted initiatives on diversity. Going forward we will require an even better work environment and breeding ground for our diverse workforce to thrive as we go about creating new businesses.
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Greater promotion of
women's empowermentTo promote women's empowerment, we have set a target to increase the ratio of female managers to 20% by the fiscal year ending March 2036, approximately three times the percentage for the fiscal year ending March 2022. We set up a Women's Empowerment Committee consisting of outside advisors with the CEO as its chair to ensure this goal is met. We are redoubling our efforts to empower women employees so that we can ensure workplaces where diversely talented human resources can equally build experience and grow.
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Recruitment of people with
disabilities and LGBTQ initiativesOur Diversity Week serves to encourage understanding toward LGBTQ (members of sexual minorities), people with disabilities, and toward multiple cultures. We seek to build an organization where diverse human resources can achieve innovation by utilizing their mutual strengths and freely sharing their opinions, regardless of their gender, age, nationality, or disability status.
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Promotion of the active participation
of senior employeesWe support the active participation of all employees who are capable and motivated, regardless of their age. Although the SoftBank's mandatory retirement age is 60, we strive to be an organization in which it is easy to work, and in which employees over 60 can achieve career goals while utilizing their experience. We do this through measures such as a continuing employment system under which employees can work until age 65, non-fulltime work, side jobs, etc.
Create an environment
where all employees
can work with aspiration
We promote the optimal work-life balance through the adoption of the SoftBank work style, and position the maintenance and improvement of the health of our employees as a key management issue, as the driving force to achieve the dreams and aspirations of the company and of individuals.
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SoftBank's workstyle
Under our in-house slogan of “Smart and Fun!” we make smart use of IT to ensure that work is enjoyable, promoting work style reform so that we can focus on more creative and innovative matters. We have also adopted new work styles to prevent the spread of COVID-19, such as telework and the use of satellite offices, keeping the number of people attending workplaces each day at under 50%.
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Helping employees to maintain and improve their health
We have established a “Declaration of Health Management” and established a promotion system, including the Well-being Promotion Office. With the goal of ensuring that each employee is mentally and physically healthy and part of a vibrant group, we are implementing initiatives for health management, maintenance, and improvement.
Business strategy and opportunities for employees' personal growth
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Providing employees with
the opportunity to start new
businessesTo realize an environment where employees have opportunities for self-development and realization, allowing anyone to take on a challenge, SoftBank has adopted a job posting program where members can apply to start a new business or company. We will promote this program so that personnel can shift to new and growth businesses and to provide chances for diverse human resources to be active.
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Support for new business creation
by employeesWe encourage proactive proposals for new businesses by employees under SoftBank InnoVenture, an in-house entrepreneurship program. An employee can suggest their own idea for commercialization and, if it is greenlighted, can participate themselves in turning it into a business.
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Supporting autonomous career
development by employeesThe SoftBank University, a training institution for human resources to contribute to fulfilling our management philosophy, aims to develop fully realized individuals through the three core pillars of the Business Program, Technology Program, and Seniority-based Program.
Also, since June 2009 we introduced the Internally Certified Instructor (ICI) system to leverage the know-how of employees for effective human resources development, providing opportunities for other employees to gain higher skills through training harnessing experience.