Human resources evaluation

Encouraging growth by clarifying the goals that need to be achieved

AISIN believes that the energy of each individual employee is the force that propels our corporate activities forward.

The categories we use for personnel evaluation are “work performance ability” and “attitudes to tackling work,” our aims being to clarify the state to which employees should aspire and to encourage them in their personal growth.

Education and training

Centering on the HR Development Center

Centering on the HR Development Center established in March 2007, AISIN provides hierarchically graded training for all employees from new recruits to senior managers as well as management training applicable without distinction to skilled manual workers, administrative staff and technical personnel.

The Center also runs the Aisin Technical Academy, whose task is to train future leaders in the manufacturing arena.

Note: Aisin Technical Academy
Established in April 1977, the Aisin Technical Academy is an in-house boarding school targeting graduates of technical high schools. Recognized by Aichi Prefecture as a vocational school, the academy offers one-year courses for acquiring practical skills and knowledge. Organizationally, it is treated as a department of the Aisin Seiki HR Development Center.

• Details of the HR Development Center can be seen here.

Evaluation from outside the company

Commendations for originality and ingenuity

189 employees were selected from fourteen companies in the Aisin Group for the Prize of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology for the originality and ingenuity that they showed in the execution of their work in fiscal 2008. 193 employees received this award the previous year.

This prize is awarded by the government to commend individuals who have shown exceptional originality and ingenuity in the execution of their work. 985 individuals from all over Japan received the award on this occasion (986 awards were made the previous year), and of this number 283 were from Aichi Prefecture (in succession to 269 the previous year). Around 60 percent of those awarded the prize in Aichi Prefecture were from eight companies in the Aisin Group (152 individuals), and thus made a major contribution to enabling Aichi Prefecture to occupy the number one spot among all the Japanese prefectures. Including employees of the Aisin Group from outside Aichi Prefecture, 189 employees from 14 companies received awards. This was the best result we have achieved in succession to the previous year, when 193 Aisin employees were awarded prizes.

Encouraging growth by clarifying the goals that need to be achieved

Education and training

Six employees of the Aisin Group from five teams were awarded bronze medals at the 45th National Skills Competition (a tournament at which young skilled workers enter into competition for being recognized as the most distinguished proponents in their respective fields in Japan) held in March 2008 and a further three were awarded the Fighting Spirit Prize.

Skill Grand Prix

Three AISIN employees participated in the 24th Skill Grand Prix*, with AISIN receiving its first ever gold medal in the milling machine work category, as well as a fighting spirit prize in the lathe work category. The Skill Grand Prix is a national skill competition that brings together highly skilled workers with advanced grade, 1st grade and non-classified grade skills to compete in skill proficiency.