Mazda considers respect for human rights to be a cornerstone of its business activities. To this end, we are developing systems to promote human rights and through training and educational activities, are working to raise employees' awareness. We are also striving to get this message out into the community.
Respect for Human Rights as the Basis of Our Corporate Activities
To harness the capabilities of our employees and fully bring to bear our great strength as an organization, it is important to create friendly, productive workplaces where employees respect their colleagues' human rights. In other words, we believe that respect for human rights is the basis for our corporate activities.
Based on this conviction, Mazda has established rules and guidelines relating to its human rights declaration and stance, and is committed to human rights protection activities throughout the Group, while guiding and supporting Group companies as One Mazda.
Our Human Rights Declaration (November 2000)
Mazda should strive to become the leading company in Japan for respecting human rights, and for the ethical treatment of its employees.
Abolishing Human Rights Violations (October 2000)
- All employees are forbidden from all violations of human rights when conducting corporate activities, whether at the workplace or elsewhere, including rights related to race, nationality, creed, gender, social standing, origin, age, physical disability or sexual preference; from sexual harassment; and from other inappropriate actions.
- Furthermore, employees are obliged to report any legal violations and maintain strict confidentiality, and these employees are immune from reprisal.
Guidelines for Eliminating Sexual Harassment (April 1999)
- Sexual harassment is never tolerated.
- Employees who breach the guidelines will be subject to disciplinary action in accordance with the Company's rules, and those who report violations will be immune from reprisal.
Centered upon the Human Rights Committee
Functioning as a review board for human rights protection activities, the Human Rights Committee, established in October 2000 decides policies and measures for the Group.
We have also established a Human Rights Enlightening Promotion Group to coordinate our human rights protection activities. Under this group, we have set up a 24-hour Human Rights Counseling and Investigation Desk and a Female Employee Counseling Desk, which promptly respond to and resolve human rights issues that occur both within and outside the Company.
- System for Promoting Respect for Human Rights
Human Rights Training
Concert to promote human rights
Mazda holds periodic human rights training programs for all new recruits and for new leaders and employees being promoted in rank or general positions. Our event-based training includes human rights lectures, as well as concerts and film screenings to promote human rights.
In FY2007, we invited lecturers from outside the Company to give talks on human rights, and these had as their themes social discrimination and power harassment. We have also held a concert to promote human rights that featured music and talking from Naoya Tokita, as well as film screenings, and are taking various opportunities to increase general employee awareness of human rights.
Human Rights Protection Activities
These activities include inviting employees to create a good human rights motto; a display of human rights posters; a human rights panel display; human rights focused meetings; distribution of human rights explanatory cards; broadcast of the president's message on human rights; lectures via e-learning; and buses which displaying human rights slogans on their exterior.
Bus with human rights promotion slogans on its exterior
Receipt of the Human Rights Merit Award
Mindful of its role as a corporate citizen within society, Mazda also pursues human rights protection activities through partnerships with local government and other outside bodies.
In local communities, we demonstrate our commitment to respecting human rights by organizing festivals, participating in human rights symposiums and dispatching speakers to lectures and training events.
In recognition of these activities, Mazda was honored with the first Human Rights Merit Award, sponsored by Japan's Ministry of Justice and the National Federation of Consultative Assemblies of Civil Liberties Commissioners.
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