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Mission:
"To strive toward better
health for individuals and progress in medicine by developing
superior pharmaceutical products," EDCL supports a culture
of achievement and success by providing HR practices and policies
that offer challenging developmental opportunities and recognize
employee performance. We believe that all employees should
go the extra mile for themselves, for the customer, and for
the organization.
To this end, EDCL has developed a system to provide employees
with a variety of opportunities to learn to become genuine
"professionals," with a strong sense of ethics and
high level of universally accepted professionalism. There
are other systems in place to fairly evaluate employees, based
on their achievements and for appropriate placement, and provide
them with various forms of support so they can be devoted
to their work
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EDCL constantly striving to attract capable people with highest
senses of value and talents by developing and/or enhancing
appropriate systems and structures.
Human Resources Policy:
EDCL’s has established the Human Resources
Vision: "To develop a high-performance, results-oriented
culture within our organization with motivated employees who
take pride in and find a sense of accomplishment from their
work." is our basic human resource principle. EDCL has
previously implemented various reforms in terms of personnel
affairs, and these initiatives have been compiled into the
"Human Resources Philosophies" in order to realize
the "Human Resources Vision." These philosophies
describe the basic principles and concept regarding the personnel
system and its operation, such as recruitment, assignment,
development, assessment and compensation, and the Company
implements human resources programs based on the philosophies.
As a part of our Mid-Term Management Plan,
we have been proactively and intensively working to establish
effective and efficient human resource management from global
perspectives to develop EDCL as a world-class pharmaceutical
company by 2010. Our HR department is striving to develop
a work environment where every single employee can develop
himself as an effective "professional" to coup with
today’s rapidly changing market environment
Respect towards Human Rights issues:
EDCL has been conducting business activities
based on the WHO Code of Compliance Standards," which
defines WHO's compliance standards, as well as required compliance
with employment-related laws and regulations regarding the
labor hours, minimum wages, child labor, and forced labor,
etc. in each country. The WHO’s Code of Compliance Standards"
prohibits not only unfair discrimination on the basis of nationality,
race, ethnic background, belief, religion, gender, age, handicap,
disease and social status but also other discriminatory treatment
and harassment, while it also stipulates our commitment to
avoid such matters. EDCL respects human rights from global
perspectives in accordance with the code.
Development of Leaders:
In alignment with rapidly expanding business
opportunities worldwide, EDCL has been proactively developing
talented employees who can be a leader of the company, regardless
of different cultural and environmental backgrounds. A new
Personnel development program named “EDCL Personnel
Policy” has started from July 2007. This program is
positioned as a key part of our leadership development programs,
and employees participating in the program are expected to
achieve the goals stated below.
Capable & Confident Professionals:
EDCL is also focused on developing autonomous
professionals who are capable of fulfilling our mission: "we
strive toward better health for individuals and progress in
medicine by developing superior pharmaceutical products,"
as well as leadership development, and has established an
educational training system to strengthen expertise and professional
skills of employees. EDCL provides training programs designed
for each function - research, development, production, and
marketing, etc. - with the aim of learning specialized knowledge
as well as technical skills, and also have programs classified
and delivered according to each stage of career - new employees,
mid-career employees and newly-appointed managers, etc. In
addition, the Company also focuses on reinforcing the organizational
strength through support toward employees, wishing to strengthen
their individual capabilities; namely the provision of training
programs using e-learning courses as educational materials,
in order to strengthen business and English skills.
Utilization of Diversified Personnel:
EDCL considers it vital to adopt the flexible
use of human resources, regardless of gender and age. EDCL
has introduced a performance- based personnel system from
as early as late 90's and has enhanced the system toward a
performance-based and capability based system, totally free
of the influence of gender, age and academic background. In
response to the increased social demand for employment creation
for females EDCL is promoting the utilization of female employees.
In fiscal 2007, EDCL has designed for female employees to
discuss problems and propose ideas for solution for themselves,
from the viewpoint of creating a better work environment where
women can be more active.
In addition, EDCL also implemented an employee survey on corporate
culture and employee satisfaction for all its employees, to
know what is required to foster a corporate culture where
employees are encouraged to work with energy and enthusiasm.
Based on the survey results, active discussions have been
made on specific subjects such as "what kind of approaches
is required at each work site," and "what role each
of the employees should play toward improvement of the work
climate," etc. Currently efforts are being made to successfully
improve the work environment.
The Employment of Handicapped People:
As ideal desire of our Managing
Director and requirement of the society EDCL is aiming to
promote the employment of handicapped people. This has been
the first example in the pharmaceutical industry, and operates
with the Management.
Total
Employees
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