Human Capital Management

In order for Mizuno to be persistent in bringing “A-mon” quality for the world. It is essential to bring about innovation. Therefore, we enhance human capital management, to provide stakeholders with unique value. Our human capital management identifies employees not merely as “Human resources” but as “Human capital” that maximizes value. From this perspective, Mizuno aims to build a borderless relationship with all stakeholders, focusing on the i growth of each individual employee.

Furthermore, employee engagement across the entire organization is particularly important, since it positively contributes solid inclusive culture to empower individuals. We always implement a series of initiatives to activate the organization, ensuring that each employee has a sense of fulfillment and creates value.

Due to a decrease in the working population, securing excellent talent has become increasingly challenging year by year. In particular, the acquisition of professionals with expertise in fields such as AI and data science faces intense competition in the labor market. Technological innovations for business efficiency and automation have made remarkable progress, and without appropriate investment in talent can lead to decreased productivity and risks of declining performance and competitiveness. By adopting a diverse range of talent with various values and preparing an outstanding environment that enables diverse ways of working and job satisfaction, we will create innovations.

■Risks

• Decline in the labor population
• Change on business environment brought about by technological innovation.

■Opportunities

• Providing opportunities for active participation
• Diverse ways of working and diverse values.

By appropriately investing and managing talent, we generate irreplaceable value, resulting in improved corporate value and increased profits. This creates a positive cycle in business management, enhancement of sustainable growth.

We are advancing three key initiatives towards individual growth.

1. Investment in talent: We respect the connections between people and create an environment where individual employees can achieve self-realization.
2. Support for individual independence: We provide support measures that encourage self-determination and independence, helping employees build their own career paths
3. Individual growth and opportunities we make the most of our employees' individuality and capabilities and provide them with ongoing learning and education and new challenges at the workplace.

Additionally, as an organizational activation measure, we conduct employee engagement surveys throughout the entire Mizuno Group globally.

Please refer to the following links for initiatives related to “Human Capital Management”

Link: Labor practices

Link: Development and Nurturing of Talent

Link: Promoting and respecting diversity

Link: Health Promotion Initiatives

Link: Occupational safety and health

In the current age of rapid and unpredictable changes, often referred to as VUCA, it has become increasingly difficult to anticipate the future, making it challenging to differentiate our products and services. In such an environment, the role played by "people" has become increasingly crucial for Mizuno to demonstrate competitive advantage.

We will continue to create operation with high productivity, and solid culture that can contribute to the improvement of corporate value and social capital in the future. For the company to undergo corporate transformation the growth of each individual employee is indispensable. We will further enhance the environment where all employees can fully utilize their abilities and contribute to the future sustainable growth of the company.