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The AISIN Group believes that each of our co-workers is a key player and the strength of our Group. Based on this belief, we have placed “co-workers” at the top of the value we provide in our Group Philosophy. Through the implementation of our human resources management goals, we plan to create new value and provide our colleagues with job satisfaction and happiness in life.

Human resources management we aim for

In our vision for people and organizations for 2030, we envision a state in which we “take on challenges on a global and group-wide consolidated basis” and “people grow more than anywhere else and all employees are active.” As initiatives to fill the gap between our vision and the current situation, we have identified the following: ① Activities and growth of professional human resources, ② Encouraging personnel to take on challenges, and ③ Strengthening Comprehensive Strength as a Group. We also work to develop an open workplace culture as the basis for all of our activities.
We believe that providing job satisfaction and happy lives to our employees and creating new value through our initiatives will lead to the achievement of our business strategies and the realization of our Group Philosophy, which lies ahead.

Vision and initiatives based on business strategies

• TOP MESSAGE - Promotion of diversity and inclusion -
• The Database on Promotion of Women’s Participation and Advancement in the Workplace

With a sense of mission and passion, we are committed to creating value-added R&D and manufacturing processes and solving social issues, centered on our location information utilization technology, software and system development technology, and analysis technology cultivated through our business characteristic of developing various automobile parts.

Platform construction

We will build a platform that enables rapid delivery of software, services, and solutions and create and deliver continuous improvement and added value by leveraging the latest technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI).

Full participation of DX

Our basic policy is “Full participation of DX” in order for AISIN to overcome challenges as a united force toward the transformation of the automotive industry.
We aim to develop human resources with the mindset to proactively take on the challenge of DX by transforming business processes, organizations, and the business itself by using digital as their “own thing,” with the person in charge taking the lead role based on a deep understanding of organizational and work issues.

We will accelerate initiatives for electrification and shift to growing domains by promoting DX.
In the initiatives for electrification, we will strategically promote process innovation in order to provide a variety of products and systems to the market as quickly as possible.
In the shift to growing domains, we will hone our technological capabilities, such as software development and AI, and create new businesses to facilitate the creation of new value and the resolution of social issues.

Overall concept of AISIN’s DX

To enhance our corporate value, we assess the value of our intellectual property and promote intellectual property activities by confirming their connection to management and business strategies and social issues.

AISIN promotes intellectual property activities based on the basic policy of “strengthening dissemination of intellectual property information that contributes to the creation of new value and strategically protecting and promoting the use of intellectual property to expand business and ensure competitiveness.”

By considering internal and external social, environmental and technological trends, including intellectual property information, we will make robust our management and business strategies for future growth and strategically build an intellectual property portfolio consistent with these strategies to maintain and enhance our strengths. In addition, by practicing assurance activities, we will gain advantage and profitability in our future business. We will enhance corporate value through intellectual property that supports the enhancement of the value of “movement” through our business activities and the promotion of solutions to environmental and social issues.

The AISIN Group aims to become a corporate group that encourages taking on challenges through the Group’s global consolidation and empowers all employees so as to develop people who are better than anywhere else. To achieve these goals, the key is to respect the human rights of all people together with our employees, as well as our internal and external stakeholders. In addition, respect for human rights is foundational in all of our business activities. We are keenly aware of the need to more thoroughly understand the various human rights issues associated with the activities we carry out in each country and area of business and to take appropriate measures.

AISIN Group Human Rights Policy

In 2021, The AISIN Group Human Rights Policy was formulated by the Human Rights Advisory Committee. As a pledge that the AISIN Group will fulfill its responsibility to respect human rights, the policy has been incorporated into each function’s important regulations, including those of the Group companies and the supply chain.

AISIN Group Human Rights Policy

The scope of human rights risks covered by our Human Rights Policy includes discrimination; harassment; child and youth labor, and other violations of children's rights; immigrant labor; forced labor; basic working conditions, such as wages (minimum wage or living wage, gender wage gap for equal work), working hours, and holidays; overwork ; safe and healthy working environments; dialogue with employees; diversity and inclusion; minorities (including women, LGBTQ+, and people with disabilities); rights of indigenous peoples and local residents (such as land, forests, and water resources); use of security companies; privacy; consumers (product safety and provision of information); and bribery and corruption.

AISIN Group Statement on Modern Slavery Act

The AISIN Group aims to settle the due diligence process regarding human rights throughout the Group, including the supply chain. To achieve this target, it is important to clarify the human rights risks and the status of countermeasures taken. While continuing to achieve a 100% implementation rate for a survey to identify human rights risks, we will advance steps toward the target and details of the survey through a cycle of due diligence regarding human rights, including internal and external education, and talks and negotiations with stakeholders.

As part of our manufacturing activities, we procure a wide variety of items, including parts and materials, from numerous suppliers around the world. In each of these transactions, the AISIN Group works to increase collaboration and establish trust relationships with our suppliers based on our basic philosophy of seeking growth and prosperity as good business partners.

To promote sustainable procurement activities throughout the supply chain under the basic principles of “Coexist harmoniously and share prosperity with suppliers with a view to stability in our trades in the long term” and “Carry out open and fair trade,” we have rolled out the Basic Purchasing Policies globally.

Basic policy

AISIN Group Supplier Sustainability Guidelines

AISIN Group Green Procurement Guidelines

Declaration of Partnership Building

Promoting the Basic Purchasing Policies at Group companies in Japan and overseas

We are committed to mutual development based on the idea of coexistence and co-prosperity with our suppliers. Based on this basic policy, we have established the Group Purchasing Policies for our procurement activities. In FY2024, we held a briefing on our purchasing policies* in each of our main global operating regions of Japan, North America, China, ASEAN, and India. We share information on current trends in our business environment and roll out our Group Purchasing Policies.

* For the briefings, we invited suppliers with a high degree of transaction dependency in each region (788 Japanese companies and 1,007 overseas companies).

Safety and Health are above everything else.

As a corporate group conducting global business, the AISIN Group considers it an important management issue that should be achieved at all of its sites to create and maintain safe, healthy workplaces for all personnel working on its premises.
Based on the core principle that Safety and Health are above everything else as the foundation of value creation in a company, AISIN continually strives to enhance the health and safety of all employees.

Based on the core principle of Safety and Health are above everything else, we have formulated the AISIN Consolidated Safety and Health Policy and the AISIN Group Health Declaration, and we carry out our activities based on this policy and declaration.

AISIN Consolidated Safety and Health Policy

The AISIN group Declaration of health

Group Safety Vision for 2030

Toward the goal of eradicating serious accidents and accidents that require time off from work, we are conducting thorough recurrence prevention activities and promoting various measures to raise employee health awareness and make healthy behavior their daily routine. We have set KPIs in the Group Safety Vision for 2030 and are working to create a workplace environment in which employees can work with peace of mind, stay healthy both mentally and physically, and continue to play active roles.

Upholding “To our customers, inspiration and trust” in the Group Philosophy, the AISIN Group is committed to improving quality and creating new value that exceeds our customers’ expectations.

In addition, AISIN has placed “Quality Supremacy” at the foundation of its corporate behavior guidelines “Charter of Sustainability” and its individual behavior guidelines “AISIN Group Way.” We are promoting TQM,* an activity for improving the corporate culture in which all employees cooperate with each other to improve the quality of their work, not just products and services, based on the principle of “Customer First.”

* Total Quality Management

Quality policies

We have defined the system of our quality assurance activities in the Quality Manual and have established quality policies, based on which we promote our quality activities.

We pursue the quality demanded by our customers throughout the product lifecycle by paying attention to safety and the global environment. By doing so, we provide products and services that give excitement and smiles to customers in a timely manner and contribute to creating a safe and comfortable society.

Establish a global system to achieve the best quality, and deliver safety and relief to our customers.

• Establish a globally acceptable quality assurance system by considering the next-generation product and service quality and enhancing governance, and audit and modify the system
• For the DX society, build a management system that is always capable of responding to the progress in electrification, growth fields, and carbon neutrality, and develop human resources capable of creating new value

AISIN contributes to sustainable development of society through active engagement in society based on the awareness that companies are members of society. Furthermore, in response to various social issues, we support our employees with voluntary social participation and aim to create value and achieve sound development for society as a whole in collaboration with our stakeholders.

Guidelines on Compliance with Social Responsibility
Social Engagement and Contribution to Development

• We respect the cultures, traditions and the like of countries and local communities around the world and strive to establish mutual trust with local communities and stakeholders.
• We actively make efforts to solve social issues by investing our human resources, expertise and other management resources.
• We make efforts to help realize a sustainable society in cooperation with various stakeholders, including NPOs, local communities and administrative organs.
• To help realize a sustainable society and solve various social issues, we support our employees with various forms of voluntary social participation, including volunteer activities.

Guidelines on Compliance with Social Responsibility

We carry out various social contribution activities with our focus on the three categories of protection of nature and the environment, nurturing youth, and community building and development. Through these activities, we are working proactively to contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of common goals for international society to achieve by 2030.

Protection of nature and the environment:

We aim to realize a sustainable global environment by proactively conducting environmental conservation activities in order to pass on a better natural environment to the next generations.

Nurturing youth:

We aim to foster people who can contribute to society in the future by providing support for the healthy growth of children, who will play key roles in the next generation.

Community building and development:

We aim to develop society as a whole by promoting building and development of a vibrant community where all people can live safely, securely, and comfortably.