Our new employee training begins with a change in mindset from student to working adult, and includes an overview of our management philosophy, organization, work, and rules, as well as basic knowledge about motors and their production. In addition, training at overseas factories is also provided to allow students to experience actual production sites. The training will not only include a tour of the factory, but will also go into specialized areas such as production systems and equipment.
Global Talent Development
Human Resource Development Program
In our Mabuchi Global Management System, which emphasizes the robust interconnections between the bases and leverages diverse human resources, it is crucial to have an education system in place that promotes the development of local talent and facilitates the departments and bases mutual understanding of their respective responsibilities. We implement a job rotation system and conduct a global executive candidate training program to continuously cultivate management talent capable of playing an active role globally, including employees at our overseas bases. In addition, we are remodeling our education system with the establishment of the Mabuchi Learning Institute (MLI), which aims to develop an extensive and deep knowledge base across the Mabuchi Group worldwide by allowing employees anywhere in the world to attend classes, including online classes.
Education and training system
Education and training content for young and mid-career employees
New employee training
Hierarchy-specific training for young and mid-career employees
This program is designed to help participants re-examine their approach to work at a time when their professional skills have improved, to gain new insights and recognize their own challenges.
Company structure, Compliance
Leadership, Followership
Basic management knowledge (accounting･cost)
Project Management
Problem solving･Logical thinking
Prioritization (in-basket exercise)
Executive lecture
Communication
In-Department Education
A system of intradepartmental training is in place for each department to acquire the specialized skills necessary for their respective operations. In addition to developing an educational curriculum necessary for each department to acquire specialized skills, we regularly evaluate and visualize the specialized skills possessed by employees, and implement the education necessary for career advancement based on an annual education plan, thereby realizing systematic and planned acquisition of specialized skills.
Overseas Trainee System
This program provides young employees with the opportunity to work and study as trainees at our overseas offices for a period of a few months to one year. We also have a system in place enabling employees from our overseas bases to be transferred to the Headquarters as trainees. As of 2024, a total of 457 employees had gained international experience by being transferred overseas from our Headquarters in Japan, being transferred from one overseas site to another, or being assigned to an inter-site trainee program. We aim to increase this number to 625 by 2030.
In-house internship program (engineering)
This is a system for new hires in the engineering field to experience the duties of multiple departments in the form of an in-house internship before being officially assigned to a department. Not only is it an opportunity to learn technology, but it also helps me make connections within the company.
From Thailand Mabuchi to the Headquarters
Since joining Thailand Mabuchi in 2019, I have worked in the sales department. I have accumulated multifaceted experience including management skills to energize the base as well as sales and marketing skills. While participating in the trainee system, I was engaged in customer support for automotive products from April to October 2023. Having worked at Headquarters, I was deeply inspired by our management plan/strategy and administrative systems, understood the perspective of the staff at Headquarters and their workstyles, and achieved a good balance between the perspectives of sales base and Headquarters. I realized that the global personnel exchange including the trainee system resulted in a sense of unity and shared values across the facilities in the Group.
Education and Training for Managers
Management Training
In order to pass on our company's Management Markars of "positioning people as the most important management resource, making the most of people through work, and developing people who are useful to society" as our DNA, we will have in-depth discussions on the concept of subordinate development that should be shared and valued by all of our managers and put it into practice.
Case study exercise for each evaluation process
Understanding of industrial psychology theoretical background, including learning theory, motivational theory, personality typology (DiSC), etc.
Presentation of proposals for management
Action learning
Management Strategy Course
The program aims to develop future management leaders who can independently identify issues, find ways to resolve them, and move people and organizations to solve problems by strengthening their understanding of the values and management principles of top management and their basic knowledge of management.
Mabuchi's Management Principle
Basic management knowledge (people, goods, and money)
Mabuchi's Management Strategy
Independent problem identification, Solution program
Developing the next-generation of leaders
We believe that leaders should take the initiative in the addressing of management challenges from a broad perspective and be capable of facilitating innovation. Based on this belief, we have increased our emphasis on the development of the next generation of leaders. We hold the Management Strategy Course on an ongoing basis. It is designed to develop key talent so that they are proactive leaders possessing managerial insight. Many of our current executives are people who completed this program and who proposed solutions to management challenges to their leadership earlier in their careers. The 2024–2025 course focuses in particular on the development of leaders who will be able to drive the expansion of our business.
We also provide Chairman’s Seminars. This is an advanced leadership program for selected senior managers. In this program, the Chairman of Mabuchi Motor provides hands-on instruction in the core principles of management, with the goal of preparing participants to be presidents and executive officers in the future.
Career Development Support
Transfer request system
The goal of this system is to confirm the intention of employees to ensure the right employee is given the right job. Using the system, employees can voice their opinions about their career development independently at any time, including requesting to be transferred to another department.
Multilayer personnel system
In order to create an environment in which employees can develop their careers according to their aptitudes and desires, we have a system in which careers are divided into managerial and professional positions at the upper levels of qualification grades.
Side job licensing system
If you meet the prescribed conditions, you are allowed to work a second job. Side hustles provide opportunities to gain a wide range of skills and experience and broaden one's horizons.
Correspondence courses
A selective correspondence course system is in place, and the company will subsidize the course fee if certain criteria are met.
Support for English Learning
The Mabuchi Group is implementing the following programs to build a company-wide environment for employees to learn languages (especially English) so that employees can contribute to international societies.
- Providing opportunities for people to take the TOEIC test
- Holding TOEIC classes
- Providing opportunities for people to use an online English conversation system
- Running a short-term overseas study program
- Implementing a trainee system
etc.
We are also aiming to improve global communication abilities by holding English communication classes with interns from overseas and holding classes for people to learn technical knowledge.
Qualification Incentive System
We are promoting employees' self-development by establishing the Qualification Incentive System with a view to creating a self-learning atmosphere in the company and encouraging employees to acquire a wide range of knowledge useful for business operations.
Evaluation and compensation system
Our performance evaluation and compensation systems are designed to accurately recognize the contributions of each employee in their roles, with the goals of fostering the mutual growth of the company and its people and ensuring our employees are treated fairly and equitably. We have introduced a role- and performance-based compensation system for managers and specialists, in which rewards are determined by the scope of their responsibilities and their achievements, rather than by personal attributes such as age or length of service. Additionally, a job-based human resources system has been introduced for non-managerial employees at our Headquarters and for certain Group company employees. This system enables us to appropriately recognize the contributions of individuals who have diverse responsibilities, and to evaluate and compensate them based on their roles and performance. By clearly communicating these systems and frameworks to employees, we help them understand how their roles align with the company’s direction. At the same time, by visualizing the experiences and skills they will need to achieve their desired career paths, we provide a compensation system that supports individual self-fulfi llment.
Job-type personnel system (for managerial positions)
The job grades (JGs) of managerial and specialist positions are decided according to the scale of roles and duties, and remuneration is decided according to the JG and the result achieved, without depending on individual elements such as age or length of service.
Job-type personnel system (for general jobs)
Based on the job-type personnel system for managerial positions, the system values personnel development over a certain period of time after joining the Company, considering differences between managerial and general positions. The goal of the system is to more closely connect roles and remuneration as employees accumulate experience and are assigned to higher positions.
Trust-type stock issuance plan for management-level employees
In addition to regular salaries and bonuses, we have introduced an incentive program for management-level employees that allows them to receive shares in the Company as compensation. The value of the shares received increases as the stock price rises, allowing employees to work with a high level of motivation to contribute, and the company and employees work together to increase the value of the company.
Point-based retirement benefit system
Retirement points are awarded annually based on roles and evaluations. Annual contributions and results are directly reflected in retirement benefits.