Lion : Together with Employees (2.3MB)

Together with Employees

Together with Employees

Sustainability Material Issues ３〜７

Basic Approach

One of the growth strategies of Lion's Vision is "Generate dynamism to realize innovative change." Under this strategy, we aim to have all employees spurring on each another in their respective growth processes and operating as autonomous individuals in order to generate waves of innovative change; that is, dynamism, across the organization as a whole. To do so, we are promoting corporate branding based on understanding of and resonance with our purpose-make a difference in everyday lives by redesigning habits: ReDesign-to help employees feel real value in working for Lion, thus improving employee engagement. Furthermore, in addition to our efforts to create employee-friendly workplaces from the perspective of human resource development-in everything from hiring to training, compensation and the fostering of healthy habits- we also aim to increase productivity and create new value by instilling a sense of professional fulfillment in every employee.

Through further advancement of corporate branding and LION Professional Fulfillment Reforms*, we are helping employees fully display their diverse capabilities to form a collective of human resources that will embody our purpose. In this way, we will continue to transform for sustainable growth.

• Initiatives to increase the professional fulfillment of each and every employee, develop personnel who generate new value and improve labor productivity.

Overview

We are advancing a variety of initiatives rooted in the common approach of activating individuals and organizations.

In addition to efforts to enable diverse human resources to succeed, promote diverse work styles and develop independent human resources, we aim to realize better workplace environments by maintaining and enhancing labor-management relations, health and safety (Figure 1).

Furthermore, via the Lion Professional Fulfillment Reforms, we are offering a wide range of options and opportunities for employees based on four overarching themes aimed at making maximum use of diverse talent. By doing so, we are working to create environments that allow employees to utilize their own strengths, find the work styles that best suit them and better coordinate with others (Figure 2).

Figure 1. Initiatives to Activate Individuals and Organizations

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Figure 2. Lion Professional Fulfillment Reform Framework

Initiatives

Developing Human Resources

Promoting Work-Life Enrichment

Promoting Diversity and Inclusion

Improving Employee Health

Enhancing the Occupational Safety	Labor-Management Relations
Management System

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Together with Employees

Developing Human Resources

Sustainability Material Issues 5 Developing Human Resources

Approach Lion's Ideal Human Resources

Human Resource Development through Support for Autonomous Learning Systems

Approach

The Lion Group strives to foster habits that allow employees to feel secure and take on challenges so that they can autonomously exercise their abilities to the fullest. By doing so, we aim to develop human resources who generate innovative dynamism.

To encourage the growth mindset* necessary for autonomous growth, we provide a program that promotes self- understanding as well as career design support aimed at helping each employee develop a career vision. Furthermore, we offer ongoing e-learning that employees can use for autonomous study aimed at achieving their particular vision and a variety of group discussion programs. Through these and other means, we provide wide-ranging support to suit each individual.

Furthermore, the entire Company works to maintain a culture that promotes employee growth. By enhancing the relationships between supervisors and their subordinates, we are working to foster a high level of psychological safety at all workplaces.

Furthermore, enhancing the creativity of each and every employee will be key to creating the new value that is essential to realize the management vision. To this end, we are taking a two-pronged approach comprising supporting the development of diverse talents and providing opportunities to utilize such diverse talents.

We provide support for human resource development in which employees grow by autonomously acquiring knowledge and experience in order to realize the careers they have designed for themselves and thus make maximum use of their diverse talents.

Overview

* The belief that one's talents and abilities can be developed through experience and effort

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Lion's Ideal Human Resources

Individuals who proactively think and take action regarding their careers, work and work styled and engage in their work productively

Human Resource Development System that Support Autonomous Learning

By implementing the following four policies, we will develop human resources who proactively learn and act. In this way, we will generate personnel-based dynamism.

1. Enhancing leader development programs
2. Building new educational frameworks to develop human resources with the ability to proactively absorb wide-ranging insights and take action
3. Promoting mindset development at career turning points, such as upon hiring or promotion
4. Linking department-level knowledge and skills acquisition programs with headquarters-led programs to further develop expertise in specific work areas

Framework of the Lion Professional Fulfillment Reforms

Multifaceted Evaluations of Ability

One of the four overarching themes of the Lion Professional Fulfillment Reforms is Work Management. As a measure in this area, we carry out multifaceted evaluations of ability, which provide an impetus for employees to autonomously grow and work in ways that better suit them.

Once a year, employees and their colleagues evaluate their behavioral characteristics and receive feedback from their supervisors. This initiative, adopted from fiscal 2021, helps spur self-directed, autonomous growth.

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Lion Career Village (LCV)

Since 2019, to adapt to changing modes of learning while creating new learning opportunities, we shifted from conventional level-specific training to a more self- directed mode of learning via Lion Career Village (LCV), our platform for learning. LCV offers programs divided into e-learning (mainly video content) and small group discussions. Users can access and learn from approximately 4,000 units of online content and discussion-style programs encompassing knowledge from within the Group and outside.

Going forward, to help employees gain knowledge that will further expand the breadth and depth of their work and with an eye to accelerating institutional learning, we will create environments that enable them to teach one another and share what they have learned.

Enhancing Lion Career Village (LCV)

Going forward, we will continue to improve work environments that promote ambition and creation to help all employees advance their careers in an effort to reinforce front-line capabilities.

Career Planning Support

Lion's career design support hotline offers consultations about employees' careers and provides information from inside and outside the Company to support employees in realizing career autonomy in the form of advancing their own careers based on their own aspirations and actions.

Career design interview with a career consultant

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