Chugai conducts talent management to quickly identify, develop and obtain leaders and highly competent specialists to accelerate strategy execution and innovation.

To promote talent management, since 2012, Chugai has been promoting a talent management system for developing individuals based on visualization of human resources and their capabilities.
Each department held discussions on medium-to-long-term human resource development policies and formulated individual development plans. At the same time, we have created a talent pool (A group of candidates for the next generation of leaders) future management candidates. In addition, based on the individual development plans, we conducted training aimed at strategic placement of human resources and strengthening leadership from a company-wide perspective.
As for the Succession Plan, candidates for key positions in the Chugai group –head of division in Japan, head of basic organization in Japan, and key positions in overseas affiliates, were selected and clarified.

Through a talent management system, we will review our training system to improve our ability to acquire, develop and deploy world-class human resources with the aim of identifying and training them more quickly.

Having already revised its personnel systems and introduced diversity management and talent management systems, Chugai revamped its career development framework in 2012.

Support for Self-Directed Careers

Our career policy is to “Support employee autonomy and mutual growth by placing importance on providing employees with opportunities to realize and nurture their own value.” With the career declaration system as the basic cycle, we focus on workplace dialogue and management, centering on the awareness of the employee concerned and the support and advice of his or her superior to facilitate self-directed career development. We also supplement the basic cycle with various measures to promote further autonomy and mutual growth.

Occupational Safety and Health, Health Maintenance and Mental Healthcare Initiatives

As the demands of society have grown more diverse and sophisticated, integrated management of the environment, health and safety (EHS) is now required because of the close connection between “environmental protection” and “health and safety.” Accordingly, in January 2017, Chugai formulated its Regulations Regarding Environmental Protection, Safety and Health, which integrate our previous basic regulations covering these areas of activity. Based on our policy of placing priority on ensuring employee safety in all operations, and with these Regulations as a central guide, we are taking proactive measures to upgrade our safety and health systems, ensure safety and prevent occupational injuries, promote health maintenance and create comfortable work environments. As part of our focus on health and productivity management, we have established counseling services in all of our facilities where employees can feel comfortable asking for advice on physical and mental health issues. Working with specialists including industrial physicians, nurses and psychologists, as well as our own workplace supervisors and human resources staff, we have also created a system that allows for a highly individualized response to each employee’s concerns.

Initiatives to Support Working with Cancer

Chugai has further enhanced supportive working conditions for employees undergoing cancer treatment, to ensure they can focus on their treatment while enjoying peace of mind as they continue to work. These initiatives include a consultative structure that enables support to be tailored to actual treatment conditions, and a program that balances work with outpatient treatment, including drug and radiation therapy. We have also created a “Working Support Handbook for Cancer Patients,” which has been made available to all employees.

Helplines

In recent years, incidents of harassment and bullying in the workplace have been increasing as people working in the difficult social environment become less considerate of others, and there seems to be a lack of communication. Insensitive words and actions not only hurt the feelings of individuals, but can adversely affect the work environment as a whole.
The Chugai Group provides confidential channels for employees to consult about their worries without fear of reprisal: the BCG Hotline and internal and external helplines for sexual harassment issues. The Chugai Group resolves such issues in a fair manner to ensure that employees enjoy a working environment where they can perform at their full potential in an atmosphere of mutual respect for personality, individuality, and values.

Sound labor-management relations

Regular meetings are held at various levels between the Company and the Chugai Pharmaceutical Workers’ Union to improve communication and to build cooperative, sound labor-management relations based on trust. The workers’ union, which operates democratically, had 3,447 members as of December 1, 2017.
The Chugai Pharma Manufacturing Workers’ Union was established in 2009. In the same year, it joined with the Chugai Pharmaceutical Workers’ Union to form the Federation of Chugai Workers’ Unions. Since 2010, the Chugai Group has been conducting labor-management consultations under a collective labor agreement.