Job-Tailored Training and Education

  Yamaha Corporation believes that creating a mutually beneficial relationship between the employee and the Company inspires motivation. Therefore, the Company works to create a system that is equally focused on education and training and career development as the basis for nurturing human resources that can act globally. Each training program is tailored to a specific objective in one of the following categories: Stratified Training, Strategic Personnel Development, Function-Specific Training and Self-Development Education.

  The Stratified Training program provides training programs aligned to career turning points in order to raise the overall level of human resources. The Strategic Personnel Development program includes the Yamaha Global Institute, the Yamaha Management Institute and the Manufacturing Base Management Development program, which aim to mold the personnel who will be the backbone of the Company in the future, both in Japan and overseas. Other programs designed to cultivate the next generation of core employees include the Yamaha Advanced Skill School and Technology Training Center, held at production facilities in Japan. Under the Function-Specific Training program employees are trained in core technologies, undertake Monozukuri Education seminars and courses in international awareness. Finally, in the Self-Development Education program, Yamaha provides support for employees' self-directed studies, including through the Yamaha Business School, a distance learning-based program.

  Yamaha also provides employees approaching the age of 50 with career support through opportunities and information to help them consider their individual life paths, and offers “Life Design Seminars” to support their future careers. For employee two years prior to reaching retirement age, Yamaha provides seminars in preparation for a second life covering lifestyle themes for people over 60.

  Going forward, Yamaha will further strengthen its programs for providing employees with the highly specialized job-specific training and education they need to perform at a higher level in fulfilling the Yamaha values of being Customer-Oriented and Quality-Conscious.