Mazda respects the diversity of employees, and we aim to foster a corporate climate in which employees can express their individuality while working together to contribute to the Company. To ensure workplace diversity, as of FY2005 Mazda has had in place specific numerical targets for the percentage of employees with special needs and for the number of female managers. The Company uses these targets as a business performance index. Mazda also promotes the employment of seniors and ensures that they can transfer their skills and expertise.
Providing a Comfortable Work Environment for, and Employment of People with Special Needs
Mazda strives to maintain a stable 1.80% ratio of employees with special needs, as stipulated by law. As of the end of FY2007, Mazda employees included 232 employees with special needs, or 1.82%. Mazda also endeavors to provide a comfortable work environment for these employees.
Mazda aims to provide a comfortable work environment for employees with special needs. In FY2007, the Company installed two toilets for people with physical disabilities.
- Employing People with Special Needs
Increasing Female Employees and Positions for Women
Since 1998, Mazda has run the Women's Counseling Desk and reviewed its treatment of female workers. This approach has included abolishing the practice of hiring women only for general-purpose jobs, and has promoted a forward-looking approach toward hiring women.
Mazda aims to provide a comfortable working environment for both men and women, and to promote a work-life balance regardless of gender.
Specifically, "the Active Life Project" was launched within the Human Resources Department. Through this project, the Company conducts surveys and interviews focusing on women and gathers the opinions of employees working in various departments. This project brings to light issues and implements improvements to working environments and activities aimed at increasing the motivation of female employees as well as to provide them with a working environment they can enjoy.
- Female Personnel (Assistant Manager or above, unconsolidated basis)
Promoting Employment of Seniors and Passing on Skills and Expertise
Mazda is promoting the employment of seniors and facilitates the transmission of their skills and know-how. In FY1990, we established the Senior Family system to rehire technical employees engaged in automobile manufacturing who had reached the mandatory retirement age. We redefined this system in April 2006 by establishing the Family of Experts System. The new system has been expanded to over 300 job types, and we have put in place a mechanism through which experts can pass on expertise to their successors. In addition to Mazda, this system has been adopted at affiliated companies. The system promotes the transmission of skills and techniques and increases rehired employees' sense of worth.
In FY2007, registered participants in the Senior Family and Family of Experts programs reached 996, and we are seeing the number of rehired seniors increase yearly.
- Employment of Personnel over 60 (unconsolidated)
