Data compilation (Social report)

The number of inquiries continued to decrease from the previous year owing to improvements in the contents of the FAQ section of our website, enabling customers to receive appropriate answers whenever needed.

Execution rate: 100% (Note: Requested participation of roughly 1,100 main foreign and domestic suppliers)

Survey response rate: 100% (roughly 5,000 foreign and domestic suppliers)

*1 Held online in fiscal 2021 and fiscal 2022 to prevent the spread of COVID-19
*2 Total number of visitors to the HEARTFUL Festival Corner, which was held over a two-day period in conjunction with our Companywide event, DENSO MURAN, in fiscal 2023

Includes employees seconded to DENSO from other companies but not employees who have been seconded from DENSO to other companies

Percentage of contract workers

Fiscal 2023: 15.10% (sum of temporary employees and dispatched employees)

Employee Engagement Survey

Every year, we implement an engagement survey (called the Frontline Capabilities survey), targeting our entire employee base of roughly 50,000 employees.

* Work engagement: Sense of fulfillment and connection to the workplace and DENSO as a whole. Work engagement is measured based on replies to four specific questions.
In fiscal 2023, 48,862 employees were subject to the survey, of whom 90.2% responded.

To obtain our ideal human resources, we are striving to promote even more awareness of the roles expected at each career turning point, while at the same time solidifying roles by effectively promoting this role awareness in the workplace and providing training that is closely linked to our human resources system in a timely manner.

Promoting Diversity and Work-Life Balance

Includes employees seconded from DENSO to other companies but not employees who have been seconded to DENSO from other companies

*1:Total of DENSO Corporation, DENSO TAIYO Co., Ltd.　and DENSO Blossom Co., Ltd. The figures in ( )represent employment ratios of persons with disabilities.
*2:Total employed by DENSO Corporation and assigned from overseas Group companies

Includes employees seconded from DENSO to other companies but not employees who have been seconded to DENSO from other companies

*1 Up to fiscal 2019: Directors, Audit & Supervisory Board members, executive directors, and senior executive directors. From fiscal 2020 onward: Directors, Audit & Supervisory Board members, and senior executive officers

Target personnel: Plant managers, division managers, and section managers

The above figures have been calculated based on provisions of the Act on the Promotion of Women’s Active Engagement in Professional Life.
With respect to employee wages, our compensation policies and criteria do not differ on the basis of gender, and based on our human resources system, wages are equal for men and women given the same qualifications. Currently, the lack of women in each age group assuming management positions is having an impact on the figures for our wage gap between men and women. However, for approximately the past 10 years, we have been strengthening our recruitment of women and promoting initiatives to facilitate their personal and professional growth, such as by helping them advance their careers by pursuing higher qualifications and promoting them to management positions and offering various training programs. We will continue to promote the active role of women by realizing more flexible workstyles, enhancing our support system for balancing work and family life, encouraging our male employees to take childcare leave, and fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion.

The number of male employees taking childcare leave increased in fiscal 2023, mainly due to the following initiatives.

Aiming to reduce the number of Type 1 accidents by ensuring that employees do not touch the moving parts of machinery, we implemented an action plan at each Group company and business division in fiscal 2023. These action plans were not based on the decisions and actions of any one employee, and on-site monitoring activities (safety communication patrols by DENSO Japan, cross-checking in production management activities, and preliminary quality control checks by Group companies) were held by the senior management of Group companies and third-party affiliates. Moreover, in the case of fires and explosions, we have achieved our goal of zero serious accidents by continuing to carry out thorough preventive measures and conducting workplace inspections of maintenance and management conditions through the support of experts and third parties. Our domestic Group companies fell short of achieving their respective safety point target, and therefore we will redouble our efforts to achieve this target by implementing priority activities that monitor the tendencies of accidents, ensuring that employees do not touch the moving parts of machinery and reassessing and reducing the risk of work processes that are done by hand.

Data Coverage : 67% (102 Companies out of 153 consolidated subsidiaries and manufacturing companies)
* Worsening ratio due in part to the increase in the number of Group companies

* Includes temporary employees

Please refer to the following section for details on our level-specific training programs.

In addition to training by rank-based education, we also implement educational activities by job type for employees engaged in specific work and hazardous work.

Domestic: 26 companies; overseas: 47 companies (as of March 2023)
Of which, ISO 45001-certified: 37 companies (certification rate: 45%)

*1 Ratio of employees who answered “yes” to the question, “Have you been exercising for two days a week or more for at least 30 minutes each time for over a year?”
*2 Ratio of employees who answered “yes” to the question, “In your daily life, do you walk or engage in an equivalent physical activity for at least one hour per day?”
*3 Ratio of employees who stated that they drink often or every day and that they drink the equivalent of two glasses of Japanese sake on days that they do drink.
*4 Ratio of employees who answered “no” to the question, “Do you eat dinner within two hours before going to bed three times a week or more?”
*5 Ratio of employees who answered “no” to the question, “Do you go without eating breakfast three times a week or more?”
*6 Ratio of employees who answered “normal” or “slow” to the question, “How fast do you eat compared with other people?”

*1 Internally held tests
*2 The screening rate declined from the previous fiscal year due to the inability to conduct tests inside medical buses at Company premises in light of COVID-19 and employees receiving tests elsewhere as a result.

* Amount invested per year in Group health seminars and women’s health-related initiatives: ¥791 million

The “Lifestyle Score” is a DENSO-original index that provides a score of employees’ lifestyles based on the results of regular health examinations. The Companywide average Lifestyle Score is managed as a Company target and has been assessed twice a year since fiscal 2018.

Number of employees surveyed in fiscal 2023: 49,716; response rate: 100.0%

Presenteeism ^*1 [DENSO Corporation]

*1 Refers to the lost productivity and work output that occurs when employees are not fully functioning in the workplace because of an illness, injury, or other condition.
*2 Work Limitations Questionnaire (WLQ): A questionnaire regarding the percentage of work hours and frequency in which employees do not perform their duties due to poor physical health.

Number of employees surveyed in fiscal 2023: 50,039; response rate: 97.4%