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With the on-going changes in the labor market
environment, due to such factors as the globalization of business and social
advances of women, one major task for increasing a company's competitiveness
is to have management that can make use of human resource diversity. In
2002, Toyota started a Diversity Project based on the concept expressed
in Toyota's Global Vision 2010 of "promoting the creation of environments
featuring people from around the world with various abilities and values
who are given the opportunity to experience self-realization as individuals." Through
this, Toyota aims to increase its employees' motivation and optimize the
value of its human resources.
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the Global Vision 2010 |
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| Toward Promotion of Women's Participation |
| In 2002, based on the principle of respecting
diversity and with the aim of reforming management throughout the company,
Toyota set its sights on women's participation, reviewing its arrangement
with regard to female employees, and taking steps to put a better environment
in place. In order to promote the creation of an environment more conducive
to participation by motivated female employees, Toyota has made a three-pronged
effort to: (1) Help enable women to work and raise children at the same
time; (2) Assist in women's career building, and (3) Reform the working
environment and employee awareness. Toyota has also introduced flexible
working arrangements and constructed child-care facilities at business
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•System
for Helping Employees Accomplish both Child Rearing (or Nursing Care)
and Work
*A system similar to the child rearing system
is used in the case of nursing care |
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•Trends
in Number of Employees Taking Child Rearing Leave
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| As of March
2003, Toyota had approximately 5,800 female employees, accounting for
9% of the total workforce, but the number of women employed has grown
steadily each year as female students' awareness increases. |
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•Trends
in Ratio of Female Employees
(Example of Administrative Positions)
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| Employment of Disabled Persons |
As of March
2003, Toyota employed about 800 disabled people in many kinds of positions
at various workplaces. Toyota believes in helping the disabled achieve
autonomy within society, and makes it a basic rule to have them work
together with other employees. Human consideration is given to the
conditions of their disability at the business sites and ways are devised
to accommodate them in workplace facilities so as to create a workplace
environment that is safe and easy to work in.
As of the end of March 2003, Toyota's disabled employees ratio was 1.95%,
exceeding the 1.8% Legal Employment Quota.*
*Legal Employment Quota: In accordance with
the "Law for Employment Promotion, etc. of the Disabled," private
companies normally employing 56 or more employees are obligated to employ
disabled people (either physically or intellectually disabled) at a ratio
exceeding 1.8% of their total workforce |
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•Trends
in Toyota's Disabled People Employment Ratio
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Career Design Forum |
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With the objective
of assisting women's career building, Toyota held the Career Design
Forum in November 2002 for about 400 female employees.
The purpose was to help the women build a network within the company
and to give them the motivation to create their own career visions independently
and actively. Toyota plans to enhance similar initiatives in the future. |
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Facility to Help Child Rearing "Toyota
Child Care Bubu Land" |
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| In March 2003,
the "Toyota Child Care Bubu Land," an on-site childcare facility
(in Toyota City, Head Office area), was opened so that all employees,
both male and female, who wished to continue working while raising
children could do so without worry. The facility has many useful features,
which include having a resident nurse on the staff and staying open
until 10:30 pm. One female employee using the facility (with a one-year-old
child in care) expressed her sentiments in the following way: "It's
located at the company, so drop-off and pick-up are easy, and I can
continue working without having to worry if extra work should suddenly
crop up." |
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