Human Resource Development and Rewards

The Daigas Group aims to become a group of companies at which all employees can find personal growth through their work. We have introduced careercourse- specific human resources systems designed to respect and put to full use the individuality and autonomy of employees, and we have been conducting a wide range of training. Overseas business training is also provided to develop personnel who can play an active role globally. Furthermore, we have introduced an employee evaluation system that is highly objective based on the Management by Objectives (MBO) method, as well as a system that allows employees to take on the challenge of voluntary career development.

For the steady growth and development of the company, Osaka Gas has introduced a career-course-specific personnel system in which roles and expectations are clearly defined for all employees and employees are appropriately employed, fostered, evaluated and assigned according to each role. Under this personnel system, employees themselves conduct course registration.

Osaka Gas has established various training programs to motivate all employees and encourage the growth of them.
We offer a wide range of training programs for all positions and job descriptions, in addition to the training system for each development course. These include training programs by level junior/new, mid-level, managerial, etc. along with self-directed training.

To enable employees to play an active role in their respective courses, we systematize training and conduct training sessions in a planned manner to have participants acquire abilities required for each career course.

This course is designed to foster business professionals who achieve high performance through their extensive business experience and outstanding skills and who contribute to business performance by passing on their skills and know-how. Employees systematically acquire required skills and know-how according to the nature of their work at the human resource development center established at each business unit.

This course is designed to develop future managers and supervisors who will manage operations based on their wealth of work experience and leadership skills and to promote organizational vitality and the development of subordinates. Selective training sessions and other programs are provided to enhance management and leadership skills.

This course is designed to develop human resources who will lead an organization based on a wide range of work experience, including management, while taking on staff duties, such as strategic planning for the business unit and the Daigas Group as a whole. We have an in-house business school for learning the knowledge and skills that form the basis of strategic planning, such as logical thinking, marketing, accounting and finance.

This course is designed to foster specialists who will draft strategies for the business unit and the Daigas Group with a high level of expertise to help with decision-making and realization of such strategies. In addition to the in-house business school for the General Course, we provide in-house study sessions, etc. to learn advanced expertise in each business field.

For mid-level employees who have been with the company for a certain period of time, we provide training in aptitude tests and behavioral observation assessments for exercises at the milestones of each job level. The objective is to enable each employee to objectively grasp his or her own aptitude and abilities for future self-development and also to assign the right person to the right position.

To strengthen the management skills of managers and supervisors, we provide them with group training to acquire the necessary knowledge for managers, such as internal systems and risk management, how to set up organizational tasks, and subordinate guidance and communication skills.

We send employees to study at overseas universities in order to have them foster a sense of globalization and acquire management literacy.

We have a support system for employees to learn English in order to nurture human resources who can play an active role both in Japan and abroad.

To enhance the Daigas Group's human resource development support measures, we offer systematized training programs that are highly requested by group companies. In addition to programs for all job levels, the system is designed to encourage self-directed career development and personal growth by providing self-development support programs.

Using two evaluation indicators, performance evaluation, which measures the degree of performance based on the Management by Objectives (MBO) method, and role expectation evaluation, which evaluates the level of performance of daily activities, Osaka Gas strives to make highly objective evaluation while enhancing opportunities for interviews between supervisors and subordinates.

In performance evaluation, in which employees set their own goals, we encourage them to take on even more aggressive challenges by appropriately evaluating not only results but also processes in the course of work.

Since FY2009, we have set compliance initiatives as one of the evaluation items in the role expectation evaluation. This promotes compliance with laws and regulations and ethical standards.

Osaka Gas provides an opportunity for all employees to have a self-observation interview once a year, in which each employee reflects on the satisfaction and performance of his or her current job, proactively draws up desired mid- to long-term career plans, and expresses his or her desired career path, etc. By taking into consideration the opinions and wishes of each employee obtained through these interviews, we are able to make decisions on assignments and other matters, thereby raising awareness of the need for employees to shape their careers on their own.

We have a Challenge System in place that allows employees to choose the work that they are interested in or want to do from among internally advertised jobs, encouraging employees to seek career development on their own accord. A total of more than 250 employees have been reassigned through this system since FY1989, when it was launched.

We offer Challenge Seminar Training Courses (approximately 100 courses per year) for all Daigas Group employees, allowing them to acquire advanced business skills at their discretion.
In addition, to improve the skills of employees, we encourage them to take various correspondence training and education courses by subsidizing a portion of the fees for these courses.

In order to provide safe and reliable products and services to our customers, the Daigas Group provides technical training for employees in the management of LNG terminal facilities, gas supply pipe installation and safety inspections, and equipment installation and repair.