Mazda's provides career development assistance for employees through in-house recruitment and a free agent system. In FY2010, six employees used the in-house recruitment system and seven used the free agent system to play active roles in new positions.
- In-house recruitment
- In-house recruitment involves the Company publishing notices of the professional experience and skills required for positions, for which current employees who want to try these jobs may apply.
- Free agent system
- Involves an employee making a declaration of free agency that describes their abilities and career within the company, and using their accumulated skills and experience to rise to the challenge of a job in a different field of work or department.
Mazda offers a range of education and training programs to assist employees in developing their careers and improving their skills. In particular, to ensure that the Company's spirit of manufacturing innovation endures, to sustain the handing down of leading technologies and techniques to future generations, and to maintain its traditions and sense of passion, the Company offers various technical skills enhancement programs.
Mazda believes that development of human resources is essential to manufacturing excellent products. To this end, Mazda established the Mazda Technical College, which offers courses to high school graduates and selected employees. Those who complete the two-year program are assigned to production and manufacturing divisions and are active in the manufacturing workplace.
- Number of current students: 127 (as of April 1, 2011)
- Total number of graduates: 1,361 (from April 1988 through March 2011)
Mazda has put in place a system to ensure that each employee understands their work evaluation results and ability level assessments, and feels that their growth and performance are appropriately reflected in their compensation.
Without using age or years of service as criteria, employees are graded according to ability level (production and medical staff) and work level (administrative and technical staff), so that individual employee's performance is directly reflected on their base salaries and bonuses.
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Skilled, Medical |
Administrative, Engineering |
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| Mazda Motor Corporation | Average of Males and Females | ¥6,046,000 |
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Mazda is aiming to provide mid- to long-term training for employees to be leaders in every field of global business and ensure their optimal positioning and performance. Each sector of business operations or headquarters periodically convenes a monthly meeting with management-level members.
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