HR Policies
The Bank promotes the following HR policies within the HR strategy to create a workplace where employees can work with high motivation and pride:
- Establish a consistent HR system based not on seniority but on roles and capabilities
- Offer opportunities to enhance specialties and to establish a career path
- Establish a more dynamic organization where diversity is respected
Specific Measures
HR System and Career Development
Aozora Bank has revised its HR system to promote ‘Pay for Performance’ and to break away from the conventional seniority-based pay.
Under the new HR system, there are set career courses and a rewards system which has been established in line with the expected roles of each course. At the same time, the Bank has initiated a career course conversion program, offering more career path options based on experience and capabilities, in order to support employees taking on new jobs.
The Bank promotes a combination of proactive career development by employees and optimum allocation of human resources through its career plan program, under which employees can submit requests to work in specific divisions and job positions. There is also a job-posting program, so employees can apply for job openings within the Bank.
Under the new HR program, the Bank will encourage employees to further their careers and also ensure that employee remuneration is a better reflection of actual job performance.
HR Development
The Bank offers training programs in four categories for strengthening human resource development and career plan creation: Training by level for business skills required for each grade and job position, specialty training for expertise to perform jobs, management training to foster the future core management, and a support program to facilitate self-development.
Recruitment
The Bank recruits professionals and new graduates to meet the needs of our business groups. These professionals work mainly in positions requiring high-level skills and expertise. We also train temporary staff to become full-time employees. Various options are offered to new graduates based on their career design.
Diversity Actions
The Bank actively promotes diversity actions to create a workplace in which employees with diverse backgrounds are respected and to improve the Bank’s performance as a whole. We have made improvements to programs, such as childcare and nursing care leave and a shortened working hours system, for better work-life balance, and have offered induction training to mid-career professionals so that they can get off to a smooth start in their new environment.
