Basic Human Resources Policy

The Group is working to further enhance its competitiveness by focusing on its people as a management resource and giving its diverse range of individual employees an opportunity to demonstrate their full potential. To further enhance its competitiveness and achieve sustained growth, the Company operates the comprehensive management system for human resources. 

Comprehensive management system for human resources

Basic approach

This system is a tool for the achievement of management objectives, and the Company thinks it is important to link the system to objective management, evaluation, treatment, training, and utilization.

Comprehensive management system for human resources

Number of employees

March 31, 2021

March 31, 2022

March 31, 2023

March 31, 2024

March 31, 2025

Consolidated

6,728

6,697

6,370

5,577

4,492

Non-consolidated

3,383

3,278

3,107

3,044

2,467

Men

2,593

2,490

2,354

2,290

1,789

Women

790

788

753

754

678

Human Resources Development

To increase our corporate vitality and competitiveness, we must work to enhance the capabilities of our human resources, who are the source of that vitality and competitiveness. The Group supports employees so that they can develop and exercise their capabilities through the smooth coordination of the four frameworks listed below. As well as daily on-the-job training (OJT), we provide opportunities for each person to learn and grow on their own initiative and enhance their abilities. In addition to these initiatives, through the assignment of the right person to the right place, we strive to maximize each person’s ability.

Four frameworks for managing human resources

  • Employment of diverse human resources
  • On-the-job/Off-the-job (Off-JT) training through management by objectives (MBO)
  • Transfers and rotations
  • Fair evaluations

Human resources development system

The Group conducts a range of training measures based on our human resources development system.
This human resources development system comprises human resources development programs conducted away from the workplace and a variety of proactive self-directed learning programs to facilitate autonomous study based on a diverse range of needs.

 

These programs support and strengthen the processes through which employees identify issues in their daily work and learn and grow through solving them. We assist each person in developing their own career, gathering a diverse range of values and outlooks together with a high level of expertise, and help employees to develop and demonstrate these capabilities through their own leadership.

Human resources development system

We are working to develop the next generation of leaders who will manage the organization in future, and to support employees in proactively shaping their own careers.

Career Development Support Measures

We offer the following initiatives as opportunities for each employee to realize how important it is to consider their own careers, and to think and learn proactively about them.

 

  • Hold career design workshops that allow employees to think about the direction they wish to take in their lives at the right time
  • Hold career fairs to provide lectures and information to improve employees’ awareness of the need for independent career development
  • Provide career counseling to offer venues where employees can consult with career supporters individually on their work, career, or work-related concerns
  • Provide opportunities for employees to proactively shape their own careers through self-declaration, career counseling, the Career Challenge System, and internal job postings

Next-generation leader development

To cultivate candidates for the next generation of management leaders, we are conducting the P3 (cube) training program in three stages. This program encourages participants to develop the managerial skills required, focusing on strategic thinking and interpersonal abilities, and promotes the building of networks among future management teams.

P3 (Cube) training program

Transmitting and embedding our corporate culture

Sharing the origins and evolution of our Company plays a vital role in fostering a sense of unity among employees, while also enhancing their motivation and sense of ownership. Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma, as the pharmaceutical company with the longest history in Japan, provides corporate history training sessions at the Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Historical Museum for both domestic and international employees, as well as future hires. In addition, our Company collaborates with local museums to host seminars on regional and industrial history. These initiatives provide opportunities for employees to reflect on our identity as members of our Company with a proud pharmaceutical heritage.

Training at the Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Historical Museum
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Training at the Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Historical Museum

Note: Information on this page pertains to activities and results for fiscal 2024.