Basic Approach
To achieve sustainable growth of the company, it is essential to create an environment that enables employees to manifest their individual capabilities to the maximum extent and to foster a mindset of innovation. The Group actively hires outstanding talent and develops human resources to enhance corporate value.
Main Actions
Talent retention
For new employees, we provide training and a mentorship scheme as part of an effort to reduce the percentage of periodic hires (new graduates recruited in bulk once a year) who leave us during their first three years. In addition, we started providing more generous employee benefits to improve talent retention and job satisfaction among part-time, as well as full-time, employees.
An integrated program for nurturing talent
Our program for nurturing talent allows employees to acquire the skills, knowledge and abilities they need through rank-specific training courses held in person and online. The program also empowers employees to fulfill their potential, bringing benefits to both the employees themselves and to the organization as a whole.
We also provide skills training programs to equip employees with job-specific skills. Additionally, we help employees in their self-driven learning: Employees who obtain a professional qualification receive a monetary reward, and those who complete a specified distance-learning course get part of the course fees paid.
Training System
| All employees |
Future Leaders Program |
Senior/Manager level:Incoming-manager training , training for new line-managers |
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Professional qualifications, program for self-driven learning |
Ready-made meal license, ham/sausage processor license, occupational counsellor license, other qualification programs, distance learning (including e-learning modules) |
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Behavioral Training |
Compliance, anti-bullying |
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| Job-specific Training |
Upskilling programs |
Sales/marketing training for new employees, sales/marketing skills, training for volume sales managers, fresh meat business management skills, meat processing techniques, health & safety training, training for safety managers, HACCP / ISO, training for JAS managers, training for ISO internal auditing, B2B training, waste disposal training, patent lectures, study-abroad programs |
Performance management, self-evaluation reports
Employee performance metrics are linked with organizational performance metrics. We have introduced a system of performance management that monitors employees’ contribution to organizational goals. The purpose of this system is to appraise employees based on performance and to boost employee motivation. Each year, employees complete a self-evaluation report. As part of this process, they meet with a manager to discuss career or workplace concerns so that the manager can identify how to support the employee’s career or address the workplace issues. This process ties in with a job rotation scheme, which helps the employee grow further. In this way, the self-evaluation process helps improve job satisfaction.
Expanding opportunities for female employees to play active roles
Female employees are active in various fields (e.g., product planning, development and manufacturing, quality management, sales, and research) in the Prima Meat Packers Group. Women have multiple perspectives including those as mothers and wives. Their ideas are valuable assets for the manufacturing of a food manufacturer. We will continue to train and promote female managers and supervisors to further expand opportunities for female employees to play active roles in the future.