Promoting Human Resource Development and Work-Life Balance

「Leadership training was conducted from September through December 2025. The program is designed to develop leaders who will shape the organization's future and includes special lectures by officers and previous leadership trainees, research projects on company initiatives, practical training at group companies, professional certification, and external visits. The fiscal 2025 program was the 27th iteration, and approximately 700 employees have attended the training to date.」

「In March 2025, we changed our management philosophy to “Our Dream,” “Our Mission” and “Our Conduct.” Based on our recognition that strengthening human capital contributes to realizing this management philosophy, we revised our human resources strategy to “JR Kyushu's human resources strategy for realizing our dream.” While retaining the two basic policies and four pillars set out in the previous “JR Kyushu's human resources strategy,” we added a new pillar, “Building an organization that develops employees who prioritize safety and think from the customer's perspective,” to further foster awareness of “safety” and the “customer perspective” set out in our management philosophy's “mission.”」

「The purpose of this system is to enhance employee benefits and improve corporate value as part of our investment in human capital by providing the employee stock ownership plan with a stable supply of our shares and distributing to employees the profits generated from the management and disposal of trust assets, thereby increasing employees' awareness of the share price and their motivation to work.」

「In fiscal 2023, the Human Resources Strategy Committee met 11 times and deliberated on a total of 34 agenda items, including the formulation of various human resources plans and reviews of initiative progress.」

「Against this backdrop, under the JR Kyushu Group Medium-Term Management Plan 2022-2024, we have pursued the three key strategies of “completing business structure reform,” “creating a rich community development model,” and “developing businesses in new areas of contribution,” while focusing on “developing human resources responsible for executing and realizing the strategies” and “building a foundation for promoting the strategies as one group,” which support the execution of the key strategies.」

「Specifically, as the four pillars of our human resources strategy, we will provide and support opportunities for challenge and growth to employees with motivation and ability; create new value through the contributions of employees with diverse values and capabilities; provide differentiated evaluation and compensation in line with effort and results; and develop an environment that enables employees to choose flexible working arrangements suited to their life plans while promoting health management.」

「We have focused on “building talent to execute and deliver on our key strategies” and “building the foundation for advancing our strategies as one group.”」

「Building talent to execute and deliver on our key strategies」

「In recruitment and placement, we will strengthen mid-career hiring and promote women's advancement to achieve a talent portfolio aligned with our strategy. In development, we will promote initiatives such as making career paths more visible, enhancing expertise and supporting reskilling to enable diverse careers and make the fullest use of our talent. In evaluation, we will review our personnel and compensation systems and promote health management to improve employee engagement.」

「We will develop people who can serve as the foundation for the Group's sustainable growth by creating an environment where employees feel “happy” and can play an active role with vitality. In particular, through improving work-life balance and establishing efficient operating structures, we will pursue ease of working and create greater job satisfaction.」

「In addition, based on a “culture of learning,” we will foster a “culture of action” in which employees put what they have learned into practice and take on challenges. We will also work to improve ease and fulfillment at work by fostering awareness among employees that they themselves should change the way they work, promoting planned and efficient operations in accordance with working-hours management rules, improving employee health, and actively promoting work-life balance.」

「We will create workplaces where each employee's individuality can be utilized and improve the learning environment, while promoting work-life balance and working to enhance job satisfaction.」