At Kureha, we aim to cultivate future executives, global human capital, digital human capital, and young employees to become human capital with diverse strengths whose performance we can count on and who have the self-motivation and career awareness to continually improve themselves.
In order to expand support for the autonomous and continuous growth of each employee so that they can continue to flourish and take on tougher challenges, we are actively promoting various measures, including education in the workplace, various systematic training programs, and support for autonomous career development. We also established the Human Resource Development Committee for Technology and Innovation to ensure our continued growth as a technology-driven manufacturer by promoting the training of technical human capital. In addition, we are promoting initiatives to develop female executives through a program where candidates are selected based on their potential to fulfill future management positions, aimed at acquiring knowledge and skills while fostering a mindset for management and administration.

We support our employees' self-development through autonomous and continuous learning. Employees can freely choose from the following programs: (1) e-learning, (2) distance learning, (3) a management path that supports self-investment by regular employees aiming for future management positions and re-learning by executives, and (4) seminars by instructors from both inside and outside Kureha about various themes. We have prepared programs that cover a wide range of levels and needs to make it easier for each employee to actively participate.
We also promote the use of open enrollment training programs from the standpoint of our workstyle reform efforts, in which the Company and employees work together to achieve management goals and employees are encouraged to be more independent and proactive in their self-development.

To expand our presence in the global market, we are focused on developing global human capital by enhancing various self-development, skill development, and study abroad programs.

We are working to raise the digital capabilities of all employees through digital human capital basic training and support for passing the IT Passport exam. We are also implementing a Senior Data Analyst training program in order to train specialists equipped with advanced data analysis skills, who support data-driven decision making.

To support our employees' career-minded self-development, we have established a medium- to long-term career development support system. Kureha conducts career interviews (starting in the fourth year of employment and continuing through the eleventh year, two to three times) and training to create and foster career awareness (in the second year of employment) to support employees' career development.

Available since fiscal 1959 for young employees in engineering, research, and manufacturing positions, this program was expanded to administration and sales positions in fiscal 2016. Through this program, while cultivating the logical thinking, writing, and presentation skills of young employees, various proposals for the development of new businesses and applications have been made. In fiscal 2022, 41 employees in engineering, research, and manufacturing and 9 employees in administration and sales presented papers, and 10 were designated as excellent papers.

Kureha seeks to create a corporate culture in which each employee can play an independent and autonomous role, responding deftly to changes in the business environment, with a sense of ambition, speed, and growth. Our personnel system is based on the following two principles:
(1) Enhancement of performance-orientation—Enhancement of rewards based on role and duty standards
(2) Active participation of senior workers—Extension of retirement age to 65 years old
Through this system, we aim to transform Kureha into a company where employees can take pride in their work as professionals, experience job satisfaction and self-development, and feel that they want and need to continue practicing ambition, speed, and growth.

• Ambition - to actively take on new and difficult tasks without being bound by conventional ideas and methods.
• Speed - in collecting information, making decisions, taking actions, and responding to changes.
• Growth - by continuing to learn independently throughout their career and in fulfilling their role as a professional.