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Overview Action Data & Prole
Respect for Human Rights
ISO 26000: • Human Rights • Labor Practices
Ricoh Group Sustainability Report 2014 44
Fostering awareness of issues in daily
business activities
Our respect for human rights prioritizes due
consideration for all stakeholders associated with
corporate activities and requires that each and every
employee who is involved in daily operations has a
proper understanding of human rights and a deep
awareness of human rights issues. As a second
step in promoting this ideal, in August 2013, we
brought together a total of 18 managers familiar
with personnel and labor affairs from seven divisions
where enhanced capabilities will be a priority going
forward to participate in the Ricoh Group’s rst
human rights workshop. Of note, in developing this
human rights workshop, we garnered the support of
HidekiWakabayashi,ExecutiveDirectorofthenon-
governmental organization Amnesty International
Japan.
Workshop objectives
1. Discover elements of human rights concealed
within business processes (using one’s imagination),
and identify points to keep in mind.
2. Get participants to think about issues that
will instill a greater sense of due diligence into
everyday business processes in each division, and
promote activities toward this end throughout the
respective division.
Comments from participants (excerpts)
•Ithoughtmyteamhaddoneenough,butwhenI
heard the other teams’ presentations, I realized we
fell short in some areas.
•Withseveraldivisionsparticipating,wegained
different perspectives for discussion and covered a
lot of processes.
•Icameawaywithaconcreteunderstandingabout
all sorts of information on human rights. This was
far more useful than a typical lecture.
A Message from Hideki Wakabayashi, Executive Director of Amnesty International Japan*
Workshops are an effective learning tool for discovering new perceptions
The purpose of human rights education is to draw out latent ability within employees,
help them acquire knowledge they might not necessarily get through daily work
activities, as well as judgment skills and a deeper sense of morality, and nally, elicit
an awareness of human rights so that they are able to apply it to corporate activities
that do indeed respect human rights.
However, listening to lectures and seminar presentations is a one-way process,
and does not leave much of a lasting impression. The way to achieve results is by
augmenting the human rights e-learning offered to date with workshops, which go a
step further. The retention rate is extremely high when people are engaged because
the practical activities reinforce whatever has been said.
This time around, the discussions about what kind of stakeholders exist on the
corporate value chain and what kind of human rights issues are found there—this
must certainly have fostered new perceptions about human rights. I look forward to seeing a wider group of people
involved in the workshops, and human rights due diligence becoming more firmly entrenched within the Ricoh
Group.
* Amnesty International Japan is the Japanese branch of the world’s biggest international non-governmental organization for human rights, London-
based Amnesty International Limited, which tackles human rights issues around the world through a network of more than three million supporters
inmorethan150countriesandterritories.(AmnestyInternationalwontheNobelPeacePrizein1977.)
Hideki Wakabayashi
ExecutiveDirector
Amnesty International Japan
Know
See
First Step Second Step
Human rights
e-learning program
“Corporate Activities
and Human Rights”
Ricoh Group’s
framework for
promoting respect
for human rights
Workshops
Using one’s
imagination
Perceive
Human rights education workshop