Toward the Enhancement of Human Capital

 　MISUMI eliminates inefficiencies in the Monozukuri industry from a time-based perspective, thereby enhancing Customer’s "time value." Enhancing our Customers' Time Value contributes not only to the Monozukuri industry, but also to the sustainable development of our society as a whole.  In turn, sustainable social development continuously generates demand within the Monozukuri industry, creating an ongoing demand and sustainable growth opportunities for the MISUMI Group.

　The MISUMI Group refers to this structure—in which the Monozukuri industry, society, and MISUMI’s own demand are mutually linked and grow together—as Growth Chain reaction Aspired Management, and we are committed to its sustained realization, starting from each employee’s next challenge.

　Growth Chain-reaction Aspired Management starts with "employee's challenges." The products handled by MISUMI themselves do not possess strong differentiation. Instead, we continuously enhance added value by innovating our Business MODEL without interruption. It is "people" who continually refine this Business MODEL (the MISUMI MODEL). For this reason, employees’ challenges form the starting point of Growth Chain reaction Aspired Management and constitute the very foundation of MISUMI’s human capital management.

　By having all employees continuously ask themselves—and those around them—“What’s next?”, and by actually taking on their next challenges, MISUMI creates a virtuous cycle in which:
•    Individual challenges lead to personal growth,
•    This growth enhances self assessment and a sense of progress,
•    Appropriate recognition and rewards for outcomes further strengthen motivation, and
•    That motivation fuels anticipation and drive toward the next challenge.
　Through this cycle, MISUMI continuously energizes individuals, increases their added value, and promotes individual growth. At the same time, by aggregating each employee’s “What’s next?” at the organizational level and translating these challenges into the advancement of the MISUMI MODEL, the Company enhances Customer’s Time Value, which in turn leads to increased corporate value. This forms a second virtuous cycle—one that enhances organizational added value and drives company growth. These two cycles—individual growth and organizational growth—both originating from the question “What’s next?”, function as two wheels that continuously turn together. Their sustained interaction enables the growth of both employees and the organization, and serves as the foundation of MISUMI’s Growth Chain reaction Aspired Management. This structure represents the core framework of MISUMI Group's "Human Capital Management,"  demonstrating MISUMI’s commitment to being a company that is "teeming” with opportunities for challenge and the place where employees can grow the most in the world—in other words, a true “Best Place To Grow” for its employees.

　Realizing “Best Place To Grow” requires, at the same time, a strong commitment to “challenging ourselves and growing in the right way. Accordingly, MISUMI has newly incorporated the philosophy of “Right Ways To Grow,” which encourages right challenges and right growth, and is building an environment in which both individuals and the organization can achieve the fastest possible growth in a manner best suited to each. Right Ways To Grow is built on the following four core elements:

　For MISUMI to continue being a Best Place To Grow for employees—and to ensure that employees’ right challenges and growth are sustained—individual effort alone is not sufficient. It is essential to have mechanisms in place that enable the individual and organizational growth cycles, starting from the question “What’s next?”, to continuously operate anytime and anywhere, thereby accelerating employees’ challenges. To accelerate employees’ right challenges and growth, the MISUMI Group has established the following four mechanisms and supporting subsystems:

　By deploying these mechanisms and subsystems globally, and by continuously and sustainably driving the two wheels of energized individuals and strategic alignment, MISUMI will continue to be a true “Best Place To Grow” for its employees.