GENDER DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT

Government and Company Approaches in Japan

Genpact Japan K.K.Rieko Koguchi

Gender Diversity ManagementJapan is one of the most rapid aging society in the world, and is facing the labor force decreasing Diversity Management is the key

area to address labor force decreasing

Diversity has several angles to discuss - Gender, Age,

Disability, Race/Ethnicity, Religion, etc.

I would like to focus on the Gender Diversity here which

is one of the most behind area and many activities are going

on to improve in Japan.

Japan Gender Diversity Data

I would like to introduce some statistics to capture the current status of Gender Diversity in Japan.

Women with management experience

Women’s work type

Potential workforce Vs. actual workforce

Japan Gender Diversity Data- Women with management experience

* Source: ILO Statistical Database, employment by occupation: managers, June 2014.

Japan’s ranking is 96th. Only 11.1% of

managers are women in Japan

Japan Gender Diversity Data- Women’s Work type <Hope

><Reality

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Don’t want to work

Not working

Easy job which can be done at home Part-time job

Full-time job including OT

Full-time job without OT

Easy job which can be done at home

Contractor/Haken

Part-time job

Full-time Regular Family businessOthers

* Source: Ministry of Internal Activities and Communications HP

Single

Married

with

no ki

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kid a

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and b

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With ki

d age

4 -5

With ki

d age

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kid a

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Single

Married

with

no ki

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kid a

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Women seek flexible work type when kid is young, but in reality it is difficult.

Japan Gender Diversity Data- Potential workforce Vs. actual workforce

(Age)Women with job Women who want to work Men with job Men who want to work

There is a big gap between the number of women who want to work and who are working.

* Source: Ministry of Internal Activities and Communications HP

Case study in JapanTo accelerate diversity, companies look for the way to improve working environment for women. I would like to introduce approaches to promote diversity by the government and company in Japan.

Government Approach

Japan Cabinet Office launches website providing data on women in the workplace

Japanese Cabinet certifies Six Best Practices for promoting work-life balance

More dads are taking childcare leave in Hiroshima prefecture

Company Approach

LIXIL establishes women empowerment plan called WeDo Action (LIXIL)

Employee can change work type once a year either “Work focus” or “Life focus”

(Cybozu)

Government Approach

Story-1Japan Cabinet Office launches website

providing data on women in the workplaceJapan's Cabinet Office launched in January 2014 a new website providing numerical data on the participation of women in the Japanese private sector. The site, which is based on data on the recruitment and promotion of women at private companies, is intended to improve transparency and promote voluntary corporate efforts on workplace equality.Data published on the website cover 13 items, including the percentage of executive-level positions filled by women, whether the company has targets for promoting women in the workplace and the content of those targets, and the percentage of women who return to work after taking child care leave. The data were collected from 1,190 companies (as of Jan 2016), more than 30 percent of which are publicly traded in Japan, and shown in a list classified into 33 industries.

Story-2Japanese Cabinet certifies Six Best Practices

for promoting work-life balanceThe Promotion Committee for Work-life Balance consisting of volunteers from industry and academia in Japan announces the winners of the Work-life Balance Award of the year. This award program has been held since 2007. The purpose of the program is to hear from companies and local governments about their proactive approaches as well as effective activities, services and products in the activity of work-life balance promotion, and to honor them as part of an effort to realize a harmonious lifestyle.Sumitomo Life Insurance Company (Tokyo, 42,098 employees) was one of the winners of the Award for Excellence. The company changed their long-hour work style by limiting the hours for personal computer use. It also aimed to balance child-care and office work for employees in the childcare leave period by using Facebook to exchange information. The other winner was Brother Sales (Aichi Pref., 376 employees), which was recognized for its efforts to develop human resources capable of autonomously managing office work and daily life, via the President visiting eight offices around the nation and having conversations with the employees.

Story-3More dads are taking childcare leave in

Hiroshima prefectureHiroshima Prefecture in Japan revealed on October 28, 2013, that 7.2 percent of male employees in the prefecture are taking childcare leave, which is significantly higher than national average of 1.9 percent. The figure came from a 2013 workplace environment survey of 2,500 businesses in the prefecture.

Hiroshima has been trying to promote a balance between work and family life in its residents since 2010 by encouraging male employees to take childcare leave. Specific measures include a TV program called Hiroshima Manten Papa ("Hiroshima's Perfect Dad") to raise social awareness of childcare leave, a 200,000-yen (U.S.$2,040) financial incentive for businesses with 300 or fewer employees for each employee who takes childcare leave for less than a month, and a wage subsidy for employees on childcare leave.The increase in the childcare leave ratio has had a noticeable effect on men's housework and parenting time. In 2006, the average time a man in Hiroshima spent on housework and parenting was 19 minutes per day, ranking 47th--last place--in the nation, but jumped three-fold to 53 minutes in 2011, boosting its rank to 6th in the nation.

Company Approach

Story-4LIXIL establishes women empowerment

plan called WeDo ActionCompany Name: LIXILBusiness: Living and housing solutions# of employee: 52,500

LIXIL Group, a Japanese leading company in the living and housing solutions industry, announced on August 4, 2014, that it had established a women empowerment plan, named WeDo Action, which promotes social diversity. "WeDo" is an acronym for "Women Empowerment in the Diversified Organization."

Focusing on the three pillars of the "Declaration on Action," announced and supported by Japan's Cabinet Office, LIXIL Group has incorporated various concrete action plans into WeDo Action. The three pillars and their plans are as follows: (1) taking actions and sending messages ourselves involves delivering a broad message about the importance of the role of women in society both in and outside the company, encouraging the promotion of women to management positions, and increasing the proportion of recent female graduates to more than 30% of new hires; (2) disrupting the status quo means encouraging the promotion of women and strengthening policies which support the balance between work and family; and (3) developing networking focuses on supporting the voluntary activities of women so that women can enjoy their work, and calling for men to support this endeavor.In March 2014, the Group was jointly selected as a "Nadeshiko Brand" by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Tokyo Stock Exchange for their outstanding achievement in encouraging the empowerment of women among listed companies.

Case Study 5Flexible work type

Company Name: CybozeBusiness: Software# of employee: 386

Attrition# of EE

Implemented HR policies to

improve attrition rate in

2015

10hrs

8 hrs

Work hours

Workplace

Long

Short

Free In the Office

Cyboze, Software vendor in Japan, implemented HR policies in 2005 to improve attrition rate. One of the policy is Selective work type system. Employee can choose one of work type from 9 with the combination of work hours and work place based on the personal situation. After policies have been implemented, the attrition rate has been dramatically improved.

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