Society ＞ Together with Employees Work-Style Innovation
Aims of Work-Style Innovation
In fiscal 2022, the Mitsubishi Chemical Group (the MCG Group) established a work-style innovation group within the General Affairs Department, and is working to reform working styles group-wide. Through these reforms the Group hopes to (1) improve productivity, (2) improve communication, and (3) achieve the One Company structure, as well as improve the creativity, productivity, and effectiveness of our employees and organization, thus transforming into an organization where each employee can maximize their successes and experience growth.
Initiatives to Promote Work-Style Innovation
As the MCG Group works as one to reform our way of working, MTPC is continuing to move forward with the initiatives to achieve true work-style innovation that has been implemented since fiscal 2021. These are intended to allow each employee to deal with the changes while deepening their independent learning, to constantly innovate, achieve a feeling of growth and attainment, and be healthy, lively, and meaningful individuals and organizations.
Achievements Thus Far
Evolution of Digital Capability
We will support “time creation” for growth and creative work by strengthening our development of digital tools and supporting their use by individuals.
Purpose of digital tool use- Improvement of work efficiency
- High-quality communication that transcends place and time
- Evidence-based judgment
- Visualization, analysis, and improvement of workstyles
Examples of the use of digital tools
We seek dramatic changes in workstyles through the further application of RPA* that has been so far deployed. To that end, we will further explore operations that can be RPA-enabled, train more advanced RPA developers, and install RPA in each department.
Through these efforts, our goal is to create conditions where each employee is digitally savvy, actively uses it during the course of work and has the most productive workstyle.
Current Group status of RPA (as of June 2023)
*RPA (Robotic Process Automation) is a technology that automates work processes and tasks performed on a computer on behalf of humans.
Achieving Innovative Workstyles
We will support employees’ growth by renewing the “time” created utilizing digital technology and turning it into time for independent learning, internal and external communication, and innovative time to achieve a workstyle in which each employee can perform at their best.
Specific initiatives- Implementing a new “Hybrid Work*” way of working, allowing each person to select workstyles that let them perform at their best
- Sharing examples of employees who have implemented true work-style innovations that offer tips for new ways of working with diversity
- Supporting reforms in workstyles that allow people to perform well (visual representation of workstyles)
*Hybrid Work is a flexible way of working that combines working in an office with teleworking in a manner that suits both operational characteristics and the circumstances of the individual in order to achieve results as an organization.
*An external cloud service through which employees active within the organization publicize their own stories and know-how, communicating the appeal of the company
Deepening Engagement
We seek a state of high engagement wherein employees understand the Group’s vision and work together to achieve it. To this end, we will create a “relationship” in which employees are healthy and motivated, and work with the company to contribute to growth.
We offer multifaceted values that make working in the Group appealing.
Specific initiatives
- Promoting employee-led problem-solving projects
- Supporting voluntary community activities within the company
- Training to foster connections spanning organizations, age groups, and roles
- Implementing and assessing working styles aimed at constructing ideal working methods for each organization
*A venue for comfortable dialog that encourages exchange and connections between employees regardless
of the position or the nature of their work
Together with Patients and Healthcare Professionals
- Research & Development
- Stable Supply
- Manufacturing Pharmaceuticals that are Secure, Safe, and Convenient to Use
- Information Provision
- Drug Safety / Quality Assurance
- Solving Issues Related to Improving Access to Healthcare
Together with Employees
- Human Resources Development
- Promoting Diversity & Inclusion
- Work-Style Innovation
- Occupational Health and Safety