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The NEC Group believes that conducting corporate activities with respect for human rights is essential to fulfill its Purpose. With this in mind, it has positioned respect for human rights as one of our guiding Principles. The NEC Group Code of Conduct clearly defines it as a standard that every individual, from officers to employees, is required to uphold.
In addition, NEC formulated the NEC Group Human Rights Policy, declaring its intention to advance initiatives to promote respect for human rights across its entire value chain through dialogue and consultation with stakeholders and by implementing human rights due diligence. We ensure that this policy is thoroughly communicated to all officers and employees (including fixed-term contract employees, temporary employees, and part-time employees) of NEC Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries.
The NEC Group regards “people” as its most important management resource and considers human capital management a critical theme that contributes to both risk reduction and opportunity creation.
In 2019, the NEC Group established its Human Resources (HR) Policy, “NEC, for Those Who Seek Challenge,” to provide diverse opportunities for challenge and growth to every employee, ensure fair evaluation, and foster an environment and culture where those who take on challenges can do their best. In 2021, the Group also formulated the HR Mid-term Management Strategy 2025 to implement Mid-term Management Plan 2025 from a human capital management perspective. This strategy is built on four pillars: empowering diverse talent, reforming workstyle mindsets, realizing the “right person at the right job and the right time,” and talent management—all aimed at the “transformation of people and culture.”
NEC believes that creating a culture where diverse talent can thrive and where a broad range of perspectives and ideas are respected is essential and strategic for driving innovation. To that end, the Company is advancing initiatives such as global talent utilization, expanding mid-career hiring, promoting women’s advancement, encouraging the employment of people with disabilities, and fostering understanding and support for sexual minorities.
The NEC Group needs to acquire and retain talented employees in order to develop products, services and solutions that society accepts. In doing so, the Group potentially competes with multinational technology companies possessing extensive resources. Therefore, the NEC Group’s Human Resources Division constantly strives to hire and retain the personnel required by the divisions that drive the NEC Group’s businesses, including the growth areas of Mid-term Management Plan 2025.
NEC aims to be an “Employer of Choice,” striving for global business growth by establishing a mutual relationship where both the Company and employees choose each other. As a continued act of “investment in people,” we aim to attract, engage, and retain highly marketable talent and strengthen our global competitiveness by implementing market-competitive compensation based on job-based human resources management and differentiated rewards aligned with each individual’s expected role and contributions.
To realize the transformation of the IT business in Japan outlined in Mid-term Management Plan 2025, NEC has set a target to secure 12,000 digital transformation (DX) professionals who will continuously create and implement social value, and is strengthening efforts to develop such talent. NEC is also accelerating the growth of promising next generation leaders by offering them a variety of development opportunities such as tough assignments and training.
NEC is working to secure, maintain, and improve a working environment where people can work safely and healthily as a foundation for realizing its Purpose. To promote these efforts, we have established the NEC Group Safety and Health Policy. This policy applies not only to NEC Group officers and employees, but also to all people involved with NEC’s businesses and any other parties whose health and safety should be considered, in an effort to foster a culture of safe and healthy work.
NEC has formulated the NEC Group AI and Human Rights Principles (the “Companywide Principles”) in line with the NEC Group Human Rights Policy to guide employees in recognizing respect for privacy and human rights as the highest priority in its business operations in relation to social implementation of AI and utilization of biometrics and other data (“AI utilization”).
In addition to facilitating compliance with relevant laws and regulations around the globe, the Companywide Principles guide employees in recognizing respect for human rights as the highest priority in each and every stage of business operations in relation to AI utilization, and enable them to take action accordingly.
The NEC Group Code of Conduct stipulates respect for human rights and privacy and the management of personal information, and NEC has positioned “Provision and Utilization of AI with Respect for Human Rights (AI and Human Rights),” including personal information protection initiatives, as a priority management theme from an ESG perspective—materiality. From this perspective, we are tackling prevention of any privacy-related issues stemming from the handling of personal information, in addition to undertaking other personal information protection measures.
NEC evaluates risks from various perspectives including the need for countermeasures as well as possible impacts both on corporate management and on society, and selects Priority Risks that it has evaluated as having major impacts and that need to be addressed. With these risks in mind, we are deploying measures to counter cyberattacks that are becoming increasingly sophisticated, while complying with the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 and Cybersecurity Management Guidelines Ver. 3.0 by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
In addition, at NEC, we leverage the insights and know-how gained from in-house initiatives to create opportunities, providing expertise in security measures to help strengthen customer security strategies.
NEC’s CS activities promote our business by looking at not only our direct customers but also our customers’ customers (consumers and citizens) and the society in which they live. NEC is engaged in CS activities with the aim of obtaining trust and positive feedback from its customers—“We want NEC to work with us again next time.”
To realize “Better Products, Better Services,” which is one of the Principles in our founding philosophy, we have implemented a steady stream of initiatives aimed at improving quality. These include the introduction of quality controls that broke new ground in Japan, ZD Activities, the quality-operation strategy, and Software Quality Control (SWQC).
As a Social Value Innovator, we hope that all employees will continue to improve the quality of their own work, the products they create and the services they provide, and that customers will favor NEC as the provider of trusted “NEC Quality.”
In our Purpose, NEC has committed itself to creation of the social values of safety, security, fairness and efficiency to promote a more sustainable world where everyone has the chance to reach their full potential.
Guided by this concept, each member of NEC, from directors to employees, acts as a good corporate citizen by carrying out NEC Make-a-Difference Drive corporate citizenship activities aimed at resolving social issues over the medium to long term.
