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42
Details of activities
Promoting the success of female employees
Yamaha introduced a Diversity Planning
Department into its Human Resources Division
in March 2006 aimed at further promoting
the career success of female employees.
In May 2004, Yamaha inaugurated the
Positive Action* Project that lasted
approximately one year and consisted of
members chosen from in-house recruiting.
In accord with the proposal of this project,
Yamaha continues to implement measures
to help women get promoted and to create
a working environment that allows women
to work comfortably.
* Positive Action is defined as voluntary and
aggressive activities by a company to eliminate
any disparities between men and women in the
workplace caused by rigid views about gender-
specific roles and past history.
Achieving Zero Emissions*
The Yamaha Group strives to achieve Zero
Emissions to ensure that waste is effectively
used as a resource and because there is a
shortage of waste repositories. All Yamaha
Corporation factories achieved Zero Emissions
in 2005, while all group-wide factories aim to
realize this goal by the end of March 2007.
* Zero Emissions: The Yamaha Group defines this as
“restricting the volume of final disposal to landfill to
1% of the waste generated or less.”
Preventing global warming through energy
conservation
To prevent global warming, the Yamaha Group
makes every effort to reduce CO2emissions via
energy conservation by setting specific programs
at each business site in Japan and overseas.
Yamaha aims to reduce CO2emissions from
production sites by 6% relative to fiscal 1991
levels by fiscal 2011.
During this period, Yamaha Livingtec
Corporation introduced a cogeneration system
as a means to reduce primary energy
consumption and CO2emissions. The system
became operational in March. In addition, on
February 1, 2006 Yamaha Kagoshima
Semiconductor Inc. won the Director General’s
Prize for energy conservation in the 16th Energy
Conservation Award held by the Ministry of
Economy, Trade and Industry.
Fiscal 2006 topics
Award from Ministry of Health, Labor and
Welfare
Yamaha was awarded the Ministry of Health,
Labor and Welfare Prize at the Family Friendly
Company Awards in recognition of programs
such as the child-care leave system, family-
care leave system and measures to shorten
work hours introduced to make returning to
work easier.
Inclusion in socially responsible investment
(SRI) indices
Yamaha has been listed as a constituent of the
FTSE4Good Global Index, a leading SRI index,
every year since March 2002, and of the Ethibel
Sustainability Index (ESI) since April 2005. In
addition, Yamaha has been a constituent of
the Morningstar SRI Index since its launch in
July 2003. Many SRI funds in Japan include
Yamaha. The Company aims to maintain its
efforts regarding CSR-oriented activities.
Notes: 1. Socially Responsible Investment (SRI): Socially
responsible investment is a process that takes
social, ethical and environmental criteria into
account when evaluating and selecting compa-
nies to invest in aimed at generating stable
profits. Such criteria include legal compliance,
employment and personnel issues, consumer
response and contribution to society and the
community, which complement conventional
financial criteria.
2. FTSE: Joint venture between the Financial
Times Ltd. (U.K.) and the London Stock
Exchange.
3. Ethibel: Based in Belgium, is an independent
consultancy agency for socially responsible
investment that advises banks, brokers and
institutional investors.
Emphasis on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Management