Approach to Well-being Management
Well-being refers to being in a positive state, physically, mentally, and socially. Nippon Shinyaku aims to be a company where employees can find happiness in their work. In other words, we seek to create a psychologically safe workplace where employees can be themselves. We believe well-being management is what enables each and every employee to find happiness in their work and realize our Business Philosophy, based on improvement of the working environment and promotion of health and productivity management. Nippon Shinyaku emphasizes six perspectives in promoting well-being management.
Six perspectives of well-being management
Maintaining the physical and mental health of employees is essential for well-being management. To achieve this, we engage actively in occupational health and safety activities, including prevention of workplace accidents and measures to address mental health to maintain a comfortable and safe working environment. We will also realize flexible workstyles through enhancement of systems such as flextime and telework.
In addition, by fostering a culture that recognizes diversity, we are building positive human relationships through connections between diverse people, and we will put in place well-being management to create an environment that is easy to work in.
Moreover, we will continue to help each and every employee to find job satisfaction by fostering a culture of taking on challenges and supporting the growth of human resources through the promotion of NS Mind and NS Academy within the Company.
Well-being Story
In 2021, we launched a project to promote well-being in the Personnel Department, with Professor Yukiko Uchida of the Institute for the Future of Human Society at Kyoto University as an advisor. In April 2022, we changed the name of the department with responsibility for the project from the Health Promotion Office, Personnel Department to the Well-being Promotion Section, Personnel Department. In the area of internal awareness, we have accelerated full-scale well-being promotion activities with the aim of co-creating well-being based on three axes.
In October 2022, to commemorate the first anniversary of the Well-being Declaration, we created stickers with the aim of disseminating Nippon Shinyaku’s well-being activities throughout the Company.
The stickers were designed by project members to express our desire to “co-create well-being,” or work together with all employees to make Nippon Shinyaku a place of well-being.。
- The three-stage background of pink, which is the theme color of the Well-being Promotion Project, is based on an image of the three perspectives of “I,” “We,” and “Society,” focusing on relationships with people.
- The wavy ring design is an image each person having their own ups and downs in life but creating a place of well-being in harmony with the surroundings.
- The various shapes of leaves around the WELL-BEING logo represent diversity.
Three axes of well-being
Initiative
Well-being Roadmap
| Initiative | Overview | |
|---|---|---|
| Deepening understanding of well-being | In-house well-being site | We regularly provide information about well-being on the in-house company intranet to disseminate a variety of information to all employees to co-create well-being. |
| Company-wide well-being lecture | We hold a lecture for all employees by Professor Yukiko Uchida of the Institute for the Future of Human Society, Kyoto University. In FY2022, the declaration by all employees to ensure that all employees work in a state of well-being was issued. | |
| Round-table discussion | To develop leaders who will drive the creation of places that promote well-being, we held a well-being round-table discussion for all managers. | |
| Knowing your own well-being | Monthly happiness diagnosis | As a tool to regularly reflect on your own well-being, a monthly happiness diagnosis program has been conducted since FY2021. |
| Knowing the well-being of those around you | Looking back at my well-being in photos | With the motto “Favorite photos capture moments of well-being,” we decide on a monthly theme based on the opinions of all employees and collect their favorite photos to distribute them through video streaming. |
| Director interview | As an effort to learn more about the well-being of people close to us, we planned interviews with Directors and published interview articles in a series of 17 episodes. |
Through the well-being promotion project, we will explore what it means to be in a positive state and implement measures to nurture connections between people and a spirit of altruism, which have a significant impact on well-being.