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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Activities

Creating Working Environments Where Everyone Can Thrive

  • Supporting the activities of diverse human resources

    ÆON MALL has long focused on efforts to groom women for roles in management. ÆON MALL appointed its first women to the position of general manager (GM) of a shopping mall in fiscal 2010. Additionally, women make up more than 20% of the operations managers/sales managers assigned to our shopping malls in Japan. We have also developed systems for our flex employees (part-time employees) that link proficiency with job advancement as a tool to support their development.

    Aiming to improve work-life balance

    ÆON MALL takes vigorous steps to promote a good work-life balance among employees that emphasizes the importance of both work and home life. To support child reaning, we have drafted an action plan based on Japan’s Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children, and have been certified by the Chiba Labour Bureau as a business committed to the development of the next generation of children. We have also established several systems to offer working styles that can be tailored to specific family circumstances, including waiving periodic work site transfers for employees responsible for nursing care.

  • ÆON MALL has created its own guidebook on childrearing to support employees in this activity. The book is packed with vital knowledge and procedures on everything from pregnancy to a child’s early developmental stages, and also has easy-to-understand guides to the various government documents that new parents must fi ll out and submit. In 2007, our efforts were recognized by the Chiba Labor Bureau, which certifi ed ÆON MALL as a business committed to the development of the next generation of children.

  • Various programs for promoting employee growth

    From the standpoint of employee growth, we have put training systems in place and made our goal-setting and evaluation rationale more transparent. This change enables employees to better identify ways to progress their career plans. Each year, ÆON MALL offers recruitment placement tests as a mechanism that opens the door to upper-level qualifi cations for employees. In fi scal 2010, the pass rate for the test was roughly 30%, with around 100 people taking part in job rank-specifi c training. Additionally, we offered seminars in fi scal 2010 to train candidates for work assignments overseas as part of our global management promotion efforts. We also intend to enhance the number of training sessions that include observation outside of Japan in order to cultivate a more global mindset.

  • A variety of training programs foster the specialization and skills employees need to perform their jobs.