Human capital for sustained growth

For Nippon Paint Group to grow in a sustainable manner, it is essential that we secure skilled human resources and offer a corporate culture and working environment in which it is comfortable and rewarding to work, thus allowing people to leverage their individuality and capabilities to the fullest. The Group promoted the enhancement of human resources by investing in human capital through the intensification of training programs developed autonomously by each partner company according to the challenges faced. Expanding training programs can expect to lead to improving competitive advantage in hiring new college graduates and mid-career people and reducing the turnover ratio. Accordingly, it is a key initiative for enhancing the human resource portfolio.

DuluxGroup

DuluxGroup offers a comprehensive learning program for everyone from those who are newly appointed to senior leaders to develop the skills they need to operate as global leaders and to foster ongoing learning, building capability along their career journey. They encourage employees to “Own their Growth” and to take the initiative to access the learning that they need to improve their skills and specialist knowledge. DuluxGroup continually revises and improves the curriculum to ensure it remains relevant, effective and aligned to DuluxGroup’s growth ambitions. The Group currently offers programs such as “Leading in Complexity,” “Commercial Acumen” in partnership with Harvard, and a full Sales Capability and Marketing curriculum.

Nipsea Group

The NIPSEA Group adopts a group-level learning framework that ensures the holistic development of our employees through upskilling their capabilities and competencies required at differing job levels. Training and educational programs are uniquely tailored at the country level depending on the needs identfied from our annual training needs analysis. NIPSEA Group’s provision of diverse training and educational programs ranges from technical to leadership upskilling to better equip our employees with the necessary skills in today’s ever-evolving business landscape. In FY2021, we clocked a total of 387,243 hours for our employees, with an average of 15.0 hours per employee.

Japan Group

In Japan Group, we offer training (training for prospective hires, new employee induction training, follow-up training, training for newly appointed managers, and annual training, etc.) to all employees as appropriate to their current career stages and the roles it is hoped they will play. In FY2021, total training hours for selection training and group training by job level at Group companies in Japan reached 32,000 hours. The increase in training hours was the result of expanding and enhancing the target of training programs and training schedules by improving the on-boarding training we offer to new mid-career hires and opening a business college with the goal of strengthening the business literacy of our executives.