Energetic companies develop from respect for the individual and by fostering environments in which employees can work together with passion for what they do. Since our foundation, the Alps Electric philosophy "believing in people" has been very special to us. While showing consideration for differences in culture and customs, we take measures to improve working environments over the entire global Alps Electric.

Human Resources System

Our employee system is based upon “Respect for the Individual” from our Business Approach, and follows principles in “self-improvement,” “respecting human qualities,” and “developing an elite workforce.”
For example, our system of job qualifications offers numerous courses, enabling Alps to map each individual’s suitability, capability, and willingness for specific jobs.
Alps Electric makes sure that employees understand required performances at different stages of their careers. This is the basis for all training, development and evaluation. Employees perform their jobs once they establish goals specific to their duties and skills.
We also have two main tools used for developing human resources; Self-Assessments, which relate to mid-term career design, and Goal Management, which consists of skill-based annual goal setting. We provide various types of training and support so employees can follow careers based on what they have designed using the above tools.
Using management by objectives, employees are evaluated and rewarded in relation to the goals they establish with their manager, and careful consideration is given both to the process in which they accomplish their goals as well as the actual results.
These systems provide an environment where each employee can take on higher-leveled tasks and learn from each other, which in turn fosters independence and individuals who can work as professionals in today’s marketplace. The outcome is an ‘elite workforce,’ one of the principles in Alps Electric’s employee system.

Putting International Talent to Best Use

As businesses are globalizing, opportunities for qualified individuals are expanding all over the world. Alps Electric develops and utilizes human resources from a global perspective, looking at employees from both Japan and overseas affiliates.
One way in which we work on globalizing our human resources is through the Alps Work Experience Program, which brings employees from overseas affiliates to Japan in order to develop future executives for overseas affiliates. Others are our International Associates Program (IAP) and internship programs that recruit recent university graduates to Japan from overseas. Through these activities, Alps Electric works on developing an environment which allows it to become a more rewarding company for employees anywhere in the world.

Alps Work Experience Program

In October 2006, Alps Electric launched the Alps Work Experience Program with the aim of nurturing the next generation of managerial personnel. This program is part of our global human resources development program for future executives of overseas affiliates. Middle to senior managers at overseas affiliates are eligible. Program participants work in Japan for two years to learn about the unique Alps culture, which is essential for future leaders of the company. At the end of fiscal 2010, 24 employees from overseas had either completed the program or were still in Japan on the program.

Global Human Resource Management and Development—IAP

The International Associates Program (IAP) employs new graduates from overseas. As businesses are globalizing, the IAP aims to ensure availability of a variety of human resources and to strengthen our corporate structure.
The program’s origins began in 1989 to promote globalization of human resources, when we first hired recent graduates from Ireland in line with the Irish Trainee Program―a program advocated by the Irish government.
Since 2005, Alps Electric has been working with overseas affiliates to develop IAP, and as of this year a total of 84 members from the Czech Republic, Germany, America, Ireland, Malaysia, France, England and Sweden have come to Japan on this program. IAP offers participants two years of work experience in Japan, and many program participants have gone on further to work for Alps, either at Alps’ locations in Japan or overseas after this two-year timeframe.