OREANDA-NEWS. Toshiba Corporation was an award winner in Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's (METI) newly established "Diversity Management Selection 100".

Diversity management is a strategy under which enterprises conduct management so as to create innovation and generate value, by utilizing various human resources and providing them with opportunities where they are able to exercise their potential as much as possible. In Diversity Management Selection 100, enterprises that proactively make efforts to carry out diversity management are recognized as having a management capability that contributes to Japan's economic growth. The practices of award winning enterprises will be introduced as best practices to accelerate diversity activities in Japan.

Toshiba established the "Kirameki Life & Career Promotion Office" to promote gender equality in 2004, and subsequently widened its remit to cover diversity and expanding the recruitment base to include more females, foreigners and people with disabilities. The division also promotes measures to enable employees to achieve their full potential, whatever their attributes.

Below is a list of the key measures that the company has taken since 2004.