Executing a fundamental redesign of all systems and sites based on the concept of cultivating self-directed people
Interviewee： Executive Officer, Senior General Manager, Administration DivisionNobuhiro Kuroda
Unwavering belief that human capital is the source of all KANADEN value
In the "Electronics Solutions · Company 2025," KANADEN’s Medium-term Management Plan that started in FY2021, KANADEN declared that it would strengthen the profit structure aimed at sustainable growth and evolve into an "Electronics Solutions Company" that contributes to solving social issues. To achieve those goals, we are focusing on various new initiatives and reforms within each business unit. KANADEN’s people will be the foundation for all of those initiatives. We are a trading company, which operates on a business model that does not have manufacturing division―in this framework, each and every employee is the very source of corporate value. We believe that they are the most important asset. Therefore, in order to recruit, employ, and train human resources who will drive our evolution into an Electronics Solutions Company, the New Personnel System Project was launched in the Medium-term Management Plan.
Creating a personnel system that gets as close as possible to the diversifying values of each individual
In a rapidly changing management environment, no matter how superior your products are, you will become unable to swiftly attend to changing needs if you just keep selling your existing products to existing customers. You will become unable to provide sufficient value. Therefore, in October 2021 we established a human resources policy that is guided by developing human resources that can capture the needs of customers and society and think and act on their own, or in other words, "autonomous business people who think and act on their own." Based on this human resources policy, we redesigned the personnel system in April 2024. The key factor of the new personnel system is that it enables people to make their own choices according to their own values. Today, people have diverse values, and the careers that they seek are also uniquely different. In order to meet such expectations to the utmost extent, this new system ensures flexibility wherever possible.
Realizing diverse careers for diverse employees through establishing an environment that is not just a system
Developing a new personnel system is not our final purpose or goal. The most important thing is that the new system permeates the entire company, changing each employee’s way of thinking and behavior. In April 2024, we reorganized the Human Resources Development Section within the Personnel Department. Going forward, under the new system, we will support employees through education and training programs so that they can envision and proactively create a career that is unique to them. We will continue to promote this project so as to enable and empower each employee to build their unique career and be motivated to work toward making KANADEN an Electronics Solutions Company.
Executive Officer, Senior General Manager, Administration DivisionNobuhiro Kuroda
After joining KANADEN in 1990, he was assigned to the General Affairs Division of the Kansai District Office. In 2001, he transferred to the Head Office General Affairs Division. Since joining the Company, he has managed the areas of General Affairs, Personnel, Legal and Public Relations. In 2006, he became General Manager of the General Affairs Division and was in charge of the commemorative project to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Company's founding. In 2013, he was appointed General Manager of the Personnel Department and the Public Relations and IR Division. In 2017, he became the General Manager of the General Affairs Division and managed the head office relocation project. He was appointed as Senior General Manager of General Affairs and Personnel Office in 2022 and as Senior General Manager of Administration Division in April 2023.
*Departments and positions are as of April 1, 2023
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