Employees & TOSHIBA TEC Corporation(1)

Every employee is respected, while proper evaluations and rewards are practiced. Safety control and healthcare are positioned as a top priority issue for management.

Basic Policy on Human Resources

The TOSHIBA TEC Group respects every employee and strives to improve each employee´s capabilities. The TOSHIBA TEC Group practices fair and proper evaluations and rewards, as well as creates an open, broad-minded and sound organizational culture. In addition, by providing a working environment where motivated personnel can bring their capabilities into full play, while striking a balance between work and family, the Group establishes a reward system for all human resources as it is an essential support system for its employees to form a powerful professional group which keeps on challenging itself.

Number of Employees

By expanding the direct sales channels for the Document Systems Business operations, reinforcing the Retail Solution Business operations outside Japan, and accelerating the production shift to Shenzhen in China, the total number of employees increased by 715 compared with fiscal 2006, and reached 20,673 at the end of fiscal 2007.

Number of Employees (as of the end of every fiscal year)

Personnel System

The human resources system is designed to ensure all employees realize "job satisfaction" and "a spirit of challenge" to achieve selffulfillment through their tasks, as well as to practice proper rewards, by linking individual achievements with organizational achievements.
TOSHIBA TEC Corporation is devoting its energies to creating an open, broad-minded and sound organizational culture to form a professional group, who can accentuate its organizational strengths, while having each of its employees acquire more advanced capabilities in becoming independent.

Human Resource Utilization/Development System

1)Target Attribution System	The corporate goal is broken down and each employee's target is set. Rewards are based on results, by linking the achievement of each employee's target with the realization of the corporate goal.
2)Expertise Development Evaluation System	The expertise of each employee is evaluated. Rewards are based on manifest advances in skills applied to the task performed.
3)Role Assignment System	The role assignment is designed depending on variations in capability. Rewards are based on variations in the degree of role-based responsibility and complexity of work.
4)Utilization of Inhouse Job Posting	Providing opportunities to allocate human resources to business priority areas, and fulfilling employees' initiatives and hopes encourage the utilization of human resources.
5)Employment Extension System	To strengthen and further actively utilize senior expertise, the employment extension system was introduced in fiscal 2002. The rich experience and knowledge of senior employees are incorporated into the system based on projected low birth rates and an aging population.

Promotion of Gender Equality and Support to Foster Future Generations

On the basis of gender equality, TOSHIBA TEC Corporation is aiming to provide a working environment where motivated personnel can bring their capabilities into full bloom regardless of gender. In order to support the employees to balance work and family, the system below is provided:

Future Generation Development Support System

1)Child-care leave	Until the end of the month when the child becomes three years old.
2)Nursing-care leave	Five days per child who has not completed the third year of elementary school on an annual basis. In addition, five days per children over the 4th grade and under the age of 18 as well as per family members on an annual basis.
3)Short-time job	For those caring for a preschooler: Until the end of March when the child completes the third year of elementary school. For nursing care: Up to three years per person from the day the shift is applied.
4)Annual paid holidays on an hourly basis	For reasons of child rearing, family caring, nursing care, a doctor's appointment or treatment of pregnancy, an employee is allowed to take hours or days off on an hourly basis, which exceed 20 days given in a fiscal year or carried over from the previous year.
5)Leave for pregnant employees	14 days are provided to employees who can hardly work for a doctor's appointment or treatment due to pregnancyrelated problems during pregnancy and within eight weeks after a fourth or less month miscarriage.

Employment of People with Disabilities

TOSHIBA TEC Corporation endeavors to create working environments where people with disabilities and those without disabilities can work together as equals. Employees with disabilities are involved in a variety of operations. Job opportunities for people with disabilities are expanded and working environments are improved to bring their capabilities into full play, through Internet recruitment and various other types of forums.

TOPICS

• Communication seminar with people with disabilities
• TEC Sign Club (Sign language class)

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Education and Training System

The education and training system consists of several training programs, to enable employees to acquire sophisticated expertise in conjunction with their own goals and aspirations, to provide education including compliance education for all employees through enlightenment activities, and to provide education according to their position at every level throughout corporate life. A variety of training courses are provided in response to individual employees and task needs.

Education according to Position

Starting with numerous introduction training programs for new employees, group training is provided for newly appointed deputy specialists, with a view to mastering basic knowledge regarding management based on financial statements. Another group training is provided after a given period, with the aim of acquiring skills to understand roles as managers and achieve challenges.
Especially for newly appointed managers, basic knowledge for management regarding compliance and corporate accounting is provided. After a determined period, group training is provided for these managers to improve human skills such as coaching.
For general managers, group training and dispatch training are provided with the purpose of improving conceptual skills to devise strategies from a managers´ point of view.

Career Design Education

Career design education is provided for employees in their 20´s, 30´s and 40´s respectively. This program is intended to allow employees to develop their capabilities to become aware of the importance of "autonomy," create their future on their own, improve themselves and realize choices they made.

Global Personnel Development System

Under the current business environment, the need for personnel who can play important roles within the international arena is magnified. TOSHIBA TEC Corporation established the global personnel development system for young employees to mid-career employees, to systematically develop human resources with ingenuity, cultural enrichment and a sense of internationalism, as well as language ability.

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Education System

* Education system chart(PDF/412KB)

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