CSR Mid-Term Plan

Alps Electric regards fiscal 2006 as the first year of its CSR initiatives. Individual bases and departments had already been active in areas now regarded as CSR activity, however, and these activities had helped to form our CSR Mid-Term Plan. This plan is executed by incorporating it into Alps Electric’s 5th Mid-Term Business Plan (fiscal 2006 – fiscal 2008). The pre-existing Risk Management & Compliance (RC) Committee was reformed into the CSR Committee in April 2006, and a new department named the CSR Group was established under the Corporate Planning Office at headquarters in order to progress with CSR initiatives. In October 2006, we established a global CSR structure by appointing a CSR Representative and CSR Officer at each business location in Japan and overseas.

While trying to formulate our CSR Mid-Term Plan, we found that headquarters did not have an organized system to monitor CSR activity carried out by overseas bases. We then proceeded to conduct an internal CSR survey of domestic and overseas locations. Based on the results of this survey, we identified issues specific to each location and evaluated their significance. Priority themes and targets were then set for fiscal 2007, which were subsequently incorporated into the Fiscal 2007 Business Plan for each of these locations.

By integrating our CSR activities with our business direction, we are determined to gain the confidence of all our stakeholders.

Basic Policy for the CSR Mid-Term Plan of the Alps Group

Basic Policy for the CSR Mid-Term Plan


Alps Electric Global – CSR Mid-Term Plan (Targets and Results for the Period from Fiscal 2006 to Fiscal 2008)

Management Goals
CSR Mid-Term Plan
(Goals for Fiscal 2008)		 Results for Fiscal 2006
(April 1, 2006 - March 31, 2007)		 Self
evaluation		 Action Targets for Fiscal 2007
(April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008)
Reorganize the RC Committee into a CSR Committee, made up of three subcommittees: a General Subcommittee (3Gs), a CC Subcommittee and an Environment Subcommittee, and establish a secretariat for CSR promotion. Reorganized the RC Committee into the CSR Committee comprising three subcommittees in April 2006 - the General Subcommittee (3Gs), the CC Subcommittee and the Environment Subcommittee. Created the CSR Group within the Corporate Planning Office, acting as the secretariat of the CSR Committee.
  • Establish a system to collect CSR performance data.
  • Establish a self-check function (or a monitoring system).
Appoint a CSR Representative and CSR Officer at each business location in Japan and overseas, and establish a Group and global CSR management system. Appointed a CSR Representative and a CSR Officer at each business location in Japan and overseas, establishing a global CSR management system (October 2006).
  • Global promotion of CSR activities through the issue of CSR News (in Japanese and English).
Plan and promote educational and developmental programs for CSR to be incorporated into the daily lives of every employee. Conducted an internal survey about the 2006 CSR Report to collect opinion from employees. Featured an article in our in-house magazine, explaining the basics of CSR and introducing CSR activities by some employees, enhancing awareness.
  • Establish a multi-level CSR education program.
  • Conduct regular seminars using e-learning etc.

Self-evaluation : Achieved: Well in progress: Behind schedule

Social Goals (for Stakeholders)
CSR Mid-Term Plan
(Goals for Fiscal 2008)		 Results for Fiscal 2006
(April 1, 2006 - March 31, 2007)		 Self
evaluation		 Action Targets for Fiscal 2007
(April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008)
Customers
Establish a Group CSR system that enables flexible and prompt response to increased and diverse CSR needs and procurement requirements from customers; and establish a concurrent framework for accurate response to external CSR surveys and audits. Some business locations established a CSR framework based on the results of external CSR surveys and audits, but a complete system has not yet been established on a global basis.
  • Develop a database of CSR activities of all our business locations.
  • Establish guidelines for responding to CSR surveys.
  • Educate on, and build awareness of, CSR activities in sales departments that liaise with customers.
  • Establish a CSR system that covers overseas business locations in addition to domestic ones.
Enable responses to a wide range of questions from customers concerning the PDCA performance of our CSR system in the electronic components business. We have performance data in areas such as environment, quality and safety, but we do not yet have enough performance data on human rights, labor and social contribution. More data collection is needed in the future.
Suppliers
Create a guidebook for CSR infiltration. Created supplier survey rules and the Alps CSR Guidebook in compliance with the Supply-Chain CSR Deployment Guidebook issued by JEITA.
Encourage CSR of suppliers through ascertaining their performance according to the above guidebook. Identified suppliers to be surveyed and completed preparatory work to begin surveying during the first half of fiscal 2007.
  • Determine the time frame for conducting supplier surveys after monitoring the moves of assembly manufacturers.
Shareholders/Investors
Provide clear and substantial PR and information disclosure services to shareholders and investors in Japan and overseas. In addition to conventional activities in fiscal 2006, we visited foreign investors in the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates.
  • Conduct a survey of shareholders to improve the Alps Report, our newsletter for shareholders.
  • Improve the current website (the IR page) to make it easier to understand.
  • Enable shareholders to exercise their voting rights via the Internet.
Company Members and their Families
Ascertain actual working conditions at overseas business locations, and establish appropriate personnel management standards. A project is underway to establish personnel management guidelines for global business locations so that individual sites use the same standards.
  • Establish personnel management guidelines for global business locations and begin to apply them.
Examine working environments of our domestic cooperating company employees and establish rules to maintain conditions. Involve cooperating company employees in morning assemblies to share policies and information. Have ascertained personnel management systems for some cooperating companies.
  • Determine items for a labor environment survey, and start to survey companies.
Society
Ascertain how global business locations are communicating with local communities. Conducted an in-house survey on CSR activities at each global business location.
  • Develop a database of the CSR activities conducted by each business location.
  • Use the webpage to display CSR activities conducted by each business location.
Set policies and goals for each business location, and implement them. Analyzed the results of the survey, identified issues, and established corporate policies and targets.
  • Integrate CSR targets and measures for the company as a whole and for each domestic or overseas business location into the Fiscal 2007 Business Plan.
Communicate Alp’s CSR initiatives to all our stakeholders. Issued the 2006 CSR Report and created a page on our website featuring CSR activities in order to inform our stakeholders.
  • Continue to issue and improve CSR reports.
  • Improve the website (the CSR page).
  • Use the website etc. to introduce the CSR activities conducted by each domestic or overseas business location.
Industry/Financial Community
Contribute to the continuous development of CSR activities conducted by the electronic components industry. Participated in JEITA projects, including one to create the Supply-Chain CSR Deployment Guidebook and the Project to Promote the Shared Use of Information Concerning Parts and the Environment.
  • Continue to address problems common to the electronics industry through participation in various JEITA boards and committees.
Public Organizations
Contribute to continuous development of CSR through cooperation with public organizations. Supported the Monozukuri School under the co-sponsorship of administrative and educational organizations in order to pass on the enjoyment of monozukuri to future generations. Assisted in practical training of a teacher development program aimed at university students who want to become teachers.
  • Enhance program content by creating new approaches (providing instructors, etc.).

Self-evaluation : Achieved: Well in progress: Behind schedule

Environmental Goals
CSR Mid-Term Plan
(Goals for Fiscal 2008)		 Results for Fiscal 2006
(April 1, 2006 - March 31, 2007)		 Self
evaluation		 Action Targets for Fiscal 2007
(April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008)
Establish a global environmental management system. Established an environmental management system in Japan.
  • Establish a global environmental management system.
Familiarize our personnel in the electronic components business area with the Fifth Medium-Term Action Plan for Environmental Preservation, and establish and implement plans for each business location accordingly. For details, refer to the Fifth Medium-Term Action Plan for Environmental Preservation.
  • Establish an environmental risk management system.

Self-evaluation : Achieved: Well in progress: Behind schedule

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