June 14, 2023
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Idemitsu Kosan x Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance "Cross-mentoring program" Kickoff Held
Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd. (Head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Shunichi Kito Kito; hereinafter referred to as "the Company") held a kickoff event for "Cross-mentoring program" on Monday, June 12th, together with Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. (Head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Shinichi Hirose), which is being implemented as one of the measures to promote women's participation in the workforce.
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Mentor and mentee greet each other in pairs
Cross-mentoring program participants
Cross-mentoring program participants
Cross-mentoring program participants
「クロスメンタリング」とは、メンター（支援者、助言者）とメンティ（支援・助言を受ける立場）が他企業同士となる組み合わせで行う企業横断型のキャリア形成支援の取り組みです。女性の昇進意欲やリーダーシップの向上を目的に、経済産業省が今後企業等での普及を図っていく取り組みでもあり、国内では先行的な事例です。
今回は、両社からメンティとして部長クラスと課長クラスの女性役職者8名、メンターとして執行役員などの経営幹部等8名（男性を含む）を選出し、双方の女性役職者と経営幹部等がペアとなって11月まで集合研修やメンタリングを実施します。6月12日に開催したキックオフでは、事前研修を行った後、ペアリングの発表を行いました。
当社は、昨年11月に発表した中期経営計画（対象年度：2023～2025年度） において人財戦略を経営戦略の根幹に据え、「DE＆Iの深化」に取り組んでいます。女性が働きやすくやりがいを感じられる職場は、全ての社員が仕事と生活を両立し、多彩な能力を最大限発揮できる環境につながると考え、女性活躍推進をDE&Iを推進する上での重点施策に掲げています。
当社は本取り組みを通じて女性活躍を推進するとともに、ジェンダーにかかわらず全ての社員が活き活きと働き、新たな価値を共創できる企業を目指して「DE＆Iの深化」に取り組んでまいります。
■ Cross-mentoring program implementation overview
- ・Planned participants
- 8 mentors and 8 mentees from both companies, total 32 people (16 groups)
- ·Implementation period
- June 12, 2023 - November 2023 (6 months/3 group training sessions, 3 individual mentoring sessions, up to 9 hours)
- ・Purpose of this initiative
- The various issues and worries faced by female managers, who are a minority, can sometimes not be fully resolved in the workplace. They need detailed support, and a mentor system is an effective way to achieve this.
"Cross-mentoring program," in which mentors and mentors work for different companies, allows mentors to feel more comfortable disclosing issues and worries that they would find difficult to discuss at work, and helps them self-reflect by sorting out their situations. Furthermore, by receiving objective advice and new perspectives from their mentors, the mentors can broaden their perspective and horizons, which can lead to increased motivation for promotion and independent career development.
We also hope that the mentors themselves will be proactively involved in eliminating the gender gap through mentoring (dialogue) with female managers, and that by gaining hints for developing diverse human resources, they will be able to lead to better management.
In the future, we aim to build a platform for eliminating the gender gap by increasing the number of companies participating in Cross-mentoring program, creating a network between female managers across industries (a place for proactive communication and learning), and taking on the responsibility of continuing human resource development (training junior female employees).
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<Other efforts to promote women's empowerment>
- ・Idemitsu Women's Network
- Networking for women in managerial positions, and dialogue sessions between women in managerial positions and female employees
- ・Networking of women working in the field
- Network of female human resources staff at Refineries/Complexes, internal and external network of female employees working in the field
- ・Rat-based training for women
- Mentor system, new executive training, leadership training, senior management training
・Women's health promotion seminar
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Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd. Public Relations Department, Public Relations Division