Promoting Diversity

Policy

Framework and Systems

Main Activities and Results (Fiscal 2012)

Objectives and Achievements

Policy

The NEC Group believes that diversity will become increasingly important to addressing major upheaval in the business environment, achieving innovation and creating new value. The NEC Group has defined “Respect each individual,” as a principle of action for promoting diversity within the NEC Group Core Values.
NEC aims to create a fair, diverse and high-quality working environment that allows all employees to demonstrate their abilities and shows respect for each individual, without facing discrimination by gender, age, nationality, ethnicity, religion, disability, or other parameters.

Framework and Systems

Promoting a Diverse Working Environment

Promoting global recruitment of human resources

NEC Corporation is working to recruit non-Japanese individuals who possess the skills and specialized knowledge needed by the Company in the areas of research, technology, sales and corporate administration, with the view to achieving global business expansion. Through these efforts, NEC strives to increase the quality of its workforce and promote diversity in each area. NEC Corporation has proactively provided opportunities for employees of overseas subsidiaries to work at NEC Headquarters to facilitate interaction with these personnel and develop human resources.

Women’s success in the workplace

NEC has appointed and promoted personnel irrespective of gender. Women have also been appointed to senior management positions and have proven highly successful in these roles. Examples of such positions include Division leader and branch manager. Going forward, NEC will continue to promote these efforts to mobilize female employees as part of its management strategy for maximizing the abilities of all personnel.

Promoting Employment of People with Disabilities

NEC Corporation has established a central committee to promote hiring of people with disabilities, chaired by the officer with responsibility for personnel affairs. The Company is building a system to deliberate and formulate basic initiatives relating to recruiting people with disabilities and promote their employment. In addition, NEC Friendly Staff, Ltd, established in March 2003, is a specialized company for employing people with disabilities. This company actively employs people with intellectual disabilities and had hired 22 such people as of the end of March 2012. Its main business entails providing administrative support services at offices within the NEC Fuchu Plant, cleaning and greenification services, and support services for social contribution activities.

Supporting Diverse Work Styles for Seniors

NEC Corporation has implemented systems that enable employees to individually choose their career support programs or to extend their employment beyond retirement age. These systems are designed to meet the diverse array of needs among employees seeking to start a new career outside the company or those approaching retirement age.
For employees voluntarily planning and preparing for new careers outside the Company, NEC Corporation has provided systems that support these sorts of proactive life planning initiatives by providing assistance with the associated financial and time requirements. Since 1998 NEC Corporation has developed three systems that provide support by granting periods of leave to employees aged 45 or over for skills training and development, providing financial assistance for post-retirement career support, and subsidizing the costs of related skills training. In addition, NEC Corporation provides a system that enables employees who wish to work beyond the age of 60 or older to extend their employment up to the maximum age of 65. The system is provided from the standpoint of giving highly motivated and skilled personnel the opportunity to continue to succeed on the job.

Promoting a Healthy Work-life Balance

NEC Corporation strives to enhance various schemes that can be utilized by both male and female employees to support them in achieving a balance between work, childcare and nursing care.
NEC Corporation has offered childcare and nursing care leave systems ahead of other companies and before such systems were mandated by law. Since fiscal 2006, NEC Corporation has implemented various policies based on the Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children.
As a result, in fiscal 2008 NEC Corporation obtained the "Kurumin" certificate for its childcare support programs for the next generation of children.

Moreover, the population of seniors and the number of persons requiring long-term care and persons requiring support are increasing year by year in Japan. In this context, NEC believes that nursing care for the parents of the current generation of employees will become increasingly important. Therefore, NEC has worked to enhance nursing care support operations, with the aim of supporting employees’ self-reliant efforts to balance work and nursing care responsibilities.

Specifically, NEC has implemented three main initiatives. First, NEC has introduced the "Nursing Care Relocation Expense Subsidies" system, under which NEC will provide subsidies for relocation expenses incurred by employees who have their parents move in with them or move nearby so that they can provide nursing care.
Second, NEC Corporation has implemented a "Nursing Care Setting Development Assistance Payment" system to help alleviate the financial burden of nursing care. Under this system, NEC provides subsidies for large costs incurred by employees due to changes in nursing care methods for parents requiring a high degree of nursing care support, such as home renovations, or relocation into nursing homes.
Third, NEC Corporation has launched a nursing care support website to help reduce any feelings of isolation or frustration experienced by nursing care providers. The website is a portal site mainly providing in-depth nursing care-related information and a forum for nursing care providers to share their views in their own words.

History of introduction of systems to support balance of work with childcare or nursing care of NEC Corporation

* For details on activities in years prior to the above, please follow this link.

Main Activities and Results (Fiscal 2012)

Promoting Employment of People with Disabilities

NEC Corporation has been continuously engaged in the recruitment of people with disabilities. In order to step up the recruitment of people with disabilities at NEC Group companies in Japan, we held NEC Group job fairs for people with disabilities, while providing assistance such as consultations with NEC Group companies on a case-by-case basis. In fiscal 2012, the ratio of employees with disabilities was 2.04% at NEC Corporation and 1.91% on average for domestic consolidated subsidiaries.
As part of efforts to train and to continue employing people with disabilities, NEC arranges sign language interpreters and PC-based text interpreting for training and recruitment seminars held by the Company or its Group companies when trainees with hearing disabilities are in attendance. Moreover, in the course of daily work at the company, NEC gives consideration to commuting via automobiles and addresses facility and equipment improvements where possible to allow people with disabilities to commute normally to work.

Promoting a Healthy Work-life Balance

NEC has implemented measures to promote a better work-life balance by focusing on the premises of a good work-life balance, including reforming work styles and reducing extensive working hours. In addition, as a new initiative, NEC has commenced "Work Style Innovation" activities.
This program aims to drive innovation in business processes and reform work styles with the view to advancing the NEC Group to new growth. As part of implementation measures, NEC aims to share the kaizen (improvement) activities carried out at the individual, team and worksite levels throughout the company. Best practices will be utilized as benchmarks to expand the circle of activities, in an effort to promote actions that lead to a change in awareness of every employee and higher operating efficiency. In other areas, NEC will present on its website examples of improvement both inside and outside the company, the status of activities, and information useful to improving work styles, including training.

Objectives and Achievements

Objectives for the Medium Term (From Fiscal 2011 to Fiscal 2013) and Fiscal 2012, Achievements and Progress, and Degree of Completion

(Degree of completion: achieved/mostly achieved/some progress/no progress)

Promoting a diverse working environment

Promoting a healthy work-life balance

Fiscal 2013 Objectives

Promoting a healthy work-life balance

Promoting a diverse working environment

Data

Ratio of employees by region as of March 31, 2012 [Scope: NEC Corporation and Consolidated Subsidiaries]

Workforce by gender [Scope: NEC Corporation]

Number of female managers and ratio of female managers to the total number of managers (%) [Scope: NEC Corporation]

Number of people utilizing systems [Scope: NEC Corporation]

Annual paid leave usage rate for unionized employees[Scope: NEC Corporation]

Ratio of employees with disabilities [Scope: NEC Corporation, domestic consolidated subsidiaries]

Health & Safety

Human Resources Development

Communication With Employees

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