Konica Minolta included in the Health & Productivity Stock Selection for the third consecutive year

The Health & Productivity Stock Selection is a joint programme organised by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan and Tokyo Stock Exchange. It aims to encourage companies to promote “health management” by appraising companies that are attractive to investors who focus on improving corporate value over the long term. This time, 40 companies have beeen selected from those listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Konica Minolta was highly evaluated in all four criteria: “management philosophy and policies”, “organised frameworks”, “systems and implementation of measures”, and “evaluation and improvement.” Selected from the electrical equipment sector, the company believes its efforts and accomplishments in data visualisation, which is promoted by collaborative health (integrated management by group companies and the Health Insurance Association) and health improvement through the PDCA cycle, were highly evaluated.

These efforts have been based on the principle of “promoting sound management by fostering a ‘health-first’ culture through the understanding that our employees’ health is the key to everything.” It is likely that the evaluation rose also due to the improvement of the occupational health system, including the increase of full-time industrial physicians from three to six last April.

Konica Minolta’s Efforts 

1. Visualisation of data and in-depth individual guidance
   The Human Resources Department has a special section in charge of health management to promote integrated management with the Health Insurance Association (collaborative health). For example, the future disease risk, which is calculated based on the health checkup data, is presented as a numerical value to help make employees aware of their own health and encourage lifestyle changes.
   Meanwhile, Konica Minolta classifies workplaces into four levels of stress based on the results of biannual stress checks and shares the analysis results with organisational heads to help them understand the situation of their departments. Since fiscal 2019, industrial physicians offer training on workplace improvement for respective divisions by utilising ChAO (Check-up for the Activated Organization) and the results of stress checks to improve productivity.
    
2. Organising various health promotion events throughout the year
   To encourage walking, enjoyable walking campaigns are organised for employees, with an individual competition in spring and a team competition in autumn. In addition, more than 50 events and seminars are organised annually. More than 9,000 employees have participated in these events to date.
    
3. Eleven affiliated companies in Japan included in the 2020 Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organisations Recognition Program
   In Japan, the Konica Minolta Health Insurance Society works with affiliated companies. Eleven affiliated companies were recognised in the 2020 Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organisations Recognition Program:

   Status of recognition by category
   Large Enterprise Category “White 500”	Konica Minolta Japan, Inc. Kinko's Japan Co., Ltd. Konica Minolta With You, Inc. Konica Minolta Information System Co., Ltd. Konica Minolta Business Associates Co., Ltd. Konica Minolta Mechatronics Co., Ltd.
   Large Enterprise Category	Konica Minolta Supplies Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
   Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Category	Konica Minolta Engineering Co., Ltd. Konica Minolta Chemical Co., Ltd. Konica Minolta Technoproducts Co., Ltd. Konica Minolta Planetarium Co., Ltd.

Konica Minolta remains committed to maintaining and improving the health of its employees as a management strategy, and fulfilling its corporate social responsibility to help create a better society.

About Konica Minolta, Inc.

Konica Minolta, Inc. is a global technology company that provides innovative solutions to businesses and society. With its strengths in the combination of its core technologies in advanced imaging, optics, sensing, materials and nano-processing, Konica Minolta is committed to creating new values supporting customers to address challenges in their operations and work processes. Advancing its expertise in digital technologies, the company has been going through business transformation into a digital company, with insights into implicit challenges across the board as ‘One Konica Minolta’ in the era of Internet of the Things (IoT). Konica Minolta is also active in open innovation through various collaborations and alliances with academic, industrial and entrepreneurial partners.Headquartered in Tokyo, Konica Minolta has its Group companies in 50 countries with over 44,300 employees and offers products and services in 150 countries around the world.