Calbee has fundamentally overhauled its human resources system for the first time in approximately 17 years and announced a new strategy aimed at enabling everyone to thrive. The initiative outlines specific reforms developed through repeated dialogue with frontline employees and their connection to human capital management.
Calbee reviewed its conventional performance- and numerical-target-based performance management system and carried out a comprehensive overhaul for the first time in approximately 17 years. The new system integrates regular employees and employees converted to indefinite-term contracts and introduces a hybrid compensation structure based on role-based pay. Demotion criteria and processes have also been clearly defined for the first time. The stated aim is to strengthen the link between contribution and compensation.
Dialogue with frontline employees was considered essential to advancing the reform. Ryugo Noriko (流郷 紀子) visited factories and branches nationwide and held more than approximately 100 dialogue sessions. While incorporating feedback from employees, the company defined two desired talent profiles, alpha talent and beta talent, and shifted to a policy that recognises diverse forms of contribution. The empathy and broader support generated through the dialogue were said to underpin the operation of the new system.
The three main elements of the new system are (1) integrating regular employees and employees converted to indefinite-term contracts and clarifying demotion criteria, (2) reviewing the compensation structure and raising the base salary ratio, and (3) strengthening evaluations of teamwork and processes beyond performance outcomes. MAP sheets and translation-based MAP sheets are used to improve alignment on targets between departments and enhance transparency.
As part of efforts to visualise human capital, the Calbee All-Employee Engagement Index was developed to measure the performance of α talent and β talent. The plan calls for the index to rise from 78.22 in fiscal 2024 to a target of 81.28 in 2030. Calbee also published its first Calbee Human Capital Report 2025, providing material to promote dialogue with investors.