Investments in Human Resources to Stimulate New Growth

Career Development Support Systems

MARUI GROUP provides employees with career development support including training programs that have been introduced to educate employees and help them acquire work skills.

Challenge Leader Program

This internal promotion facilitating program provides training and tests for employees to help them acquire necessary skills and improve their work capabilities to the levels required of leaders. The framework for this program exceeds the boundaries of daily work and organizations, allowing the Company to promote to leadership roles individuals that contribute to improved corporate value by continually exercising their talents and skills to the fullest extent. Moreover, as participation in the Challenge Leader Program is based on the willingness of employees, this program plays an important part in cultivating a corporate culture that emphasizes autonomy in undertaking new challenges and a desire to grow.

E-Learning Programs

MARUI GROUP provides e-learning programs that employees can utilize for the ongoing, self-propelled acquisition of necessary business skills and knowledge. Employees are free to learn as they please by choosing from over 100 courses, including basic management courses, logical thinking courses, and communication skills courses.

Growth Support Programs

The Company supports individuals pursuing further growth by sending them to business schools and covering related expenses. We provide opportunities for employees to acquire new knowledge and skills outside of the Group in relation to areas such as management skills, work organization capabilities, and idea output capacities. In addition to acquiring new business skills, such opportunities contribute to growth through the interactions employees have with the people from various other industries that also take advantage of such opportunities.

Self-Development Seminars

The MARUI GROUP Welfare Committee spearheads various self-development seminars to support employees in pursuing ongoing self-development in order to become the type of human resources the Group can rely on and to enrich their own lives. Such seminars include overseas dispatch seminars, computer lessons, qualification acquisition follow-up courses, and business skills courses.

Qualification Acquisition Aid

MARUI GROUP provides aid to help cover the expenses for the acquisition of Company-approved qualifications and for related studies. This aid is available for the acquisition of approximately 400 qualifications, including financial planner, color coordinator, shoe fitter, and TOEIC English qualifications. Employees are allowed to choose the study method they desire from among correspondence education, e-learning, and schooling programs.

Groupwide Information Sharing

Communication between Labor and Management

MARUI GROUP holds monthly labor-management meetings and occupational health and safety committee meetings at the workplace level.^*1 In addition, offsite meetings led by workplace union representatives that provide opportunities for free discussion between supervisors and employees take place after work hours. By having employees play an active role in business activity and workplace reforms, we are fostering an atmosphere of open communication between labor and management.

*1 Supervisors and union representatives at each workplace hold monthly labor-management meetings and occupational health and safety committee meetings. The discussions that take place at these meetings help build comfortable workplace environments through management-labor coordination and thereby contribute to safeguarding the health and safety of employees.

: Offsite meeting

Frameworks Providing Open Access to Information

Various networking tools are in place to ensure that information can be promptly communicated throughout the Group. Specific examples of such tools include MARUGOTO+, an internal online newsletter; MARUCOMI, an internal social networking site that allows for advertisements, recruitments, and information to be shared between the head office and other workplaces in a reciprocal, real-time manner; and MARUI GROUP Net, a site that provides information about the Group and that can be accessed via smartphones, computers, or other Internet-enabled devices. In this manner, we have in place a full line of systems for sharing information among all employees.

MARUGOTO+ internal online newsletter
MARUCOMI internal social networking site
MARUI GROUP Net site

AOI SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION Supporting the Next Generation

The AOI SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION was established by MARUI GROUP founder Chuji Aoi with the aim of contributing to the development of people that can shape the future of Japan and benefit society. Over the more than 40 years since its establishment, this foundation has helped fund the education of high school and university students while facilitating networking between students receiving scholarships and past graduates.

: Group of new university students supported in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017

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