Chapter 240 – Professional Women (Revised)
On Monday morning, Masayoshi Kishimoto sat down, as usual, for the regular high-level meeting within the small conference dedicated to the Hard Gold Group of Companies.
It wasn’t so much a formality as it was in the necessity of communication. The only exception to this would be if he was not within the company above this time on Monday, then it could be done without a meeting.
Masayoshi Kishimoto was the first to set his eyes on Takayuki Nanno and said, “Spring recruitment is about to start.
Your Human Resources Department should not only send people to various universities to recruit fresh graduates as the company’s fresh blood, as well as the future development of the reserve force, but also in the talent market to recruit professionals with work experience. On top of that, headhunting, poaching, and so on have to be done together.”
“All of us in the Personnel Department will burn ourselves out completely so that we can dedicate our light and heat to the company.
Our parents are the ones who gave birth to us, and the company is the one who raised us.” Nanno Takayuki’s entire body felt unprecedentedly tired and stressed out.
“I know that you guys work more than ten hours a day and don’t even rest on weekends. This is all temporary. Our group company is in a period of rapid development, and the most lacking thing is talent.
You are duty-bound as the personnel minister of the group company. Besides, as a man, as a young man, you should struggle, you should be hot-blooded, you should work hard to be able to create a better future life.
Is it possible that your personnel department staff do not think about making more money. Only when they make enough money can they afford to buy a house in Tokyo and really put down roots.
Their descendants will no longer be ridiculed by the native Tokyoites as country bumpkins from a foreign land. They will no longer have to uproot themselves to come to the capital to fight as they did.”
Masayoshi Kishimoto knew that the 996 work system that appeared in the latter days of mainland China had long since ceased to be a thing in Japan at this time. This period of Japanese people and twenty years later Chinese people are very similar, the difference is not too big.
People from small places in Japan tend to be divided into two kinds. One is the highly educated, university-educated people who spend one-third or even one-half of their salary on rent.
Their common demand is to live in a better location and environment, and they want to stay in the cosmopolitan city of Tokyo.
However, the other type of people, those who are not highly educated and have not studied at a university, have a completely different mindset.
For the sake of cheaper rent, they would rather put up with poor accommodations, remote locations, and even group rentals.
Not only that, they work two or three jobs a day or three or four jobs a day, the purpose of saving money is to be able to go back to their hometown to do a small business or something, after all, to do any business needs capital. This is for the sake of not having to work so hard in the future.
“What the chairman said is extremely true.” Nanno Takayuki responded and said.
“I know that you people in the Personnel Department are rather tired, and I know that you’re working hard, but don’t be petty. By the way, your Personnel Department is putting out an official promotion notice just today.
Mirai Yamada has been promoted to head of the secretary’s office of the chairman of the group company with immediate effect. The fact that she was able to receive this honor as a woman is all due to her personal hard work.” Masayoshi Kishimoto said in a serious manner.
As soon as these words came out, Oda Feijo turned her body sideways, smiled, and applauded towards Yamada Mirai, who was sitting behind the chairman.
As professional women, they both knew that there was more or less gender discrimination within Japanese companies. Especially in terms of promotion and salary increase, women were far lower than men, losing many opportunities for fair competition.
At the same time, Yamada Mirai for this sudden appointment, although there has long been thought above the preparation, but really realized, but still showed a very excited side, tears of joy.
She took the initiative to stand up first toward Kishimoto Masayoshi deep ninety degree bow, and then toward the various executives seated in the line is a forty-five degree bow.
“I’m especially capable of struggling, too! When are you going to promote me?” Takayuki Nanno, who still couldn’t forget about his position as the group company’s special agent or executive, made use of the topic and said.
“Then you’ll have to work a lot harder.” Masayoshi Kishimoto downplayed the situation for a moment and said.
“Then I hope I can fulfill my heart’s desire before I die of overwork, and I’ll be considered to have no regrets in death.” Takayuki Nanno sighed.
“You’re the only one with a lot on your mind. Look at Kobayashi Kiyoshi, he did say something about working hard or something like that. Even if there is another promotion, it should be his turn first.” Masayoshi Kishimoto retorted.
Nanno Takayuki instantly stopped speaking. In all fairness, Kobayashi Kiyoshi was indeed more outstanding than him. Otherwise, the other party wouldn’t have been hailed as the chairman’s right hand within the group company.
“Hard Gold Construction’s office premises are already found. As requested by your earlier instructions, Chairman, it’s right there in Roppongi in the harbor district.
President Yamaguchi Katsuhei is perfectly capable of relocating the main body of Hard Gold Construction located in Seoul, South Korea back.” Ota Feijo waited for them to finish before reporting on the work, saying.
“Good. You personally call over and tell him that he can make his move.” Justice Kishimoto said seriously.
“Understood. There’s also a work report sent over by Rumiko Kato from the Hong Kong, China office. We have reached a letter of intent with Flower City Netease for a 30% share acquisition.
The final signing situation, President Ding San Shi will personally fly to Tokyo and President Kobayashi Kiyoshi for a face-to-face formal signing.
In that work report, Kato Rumiko said a lot of good things about Wang Lin.” Oda Feitsugu said in a serious manner.
“We’ll use this as an opportunity to establish our first office in Flower City, Mainland China. As for the head of the office, what do you guys think of Wang Lin?” Justice Kishimoto calmly said.
“As far as I know, Wang Lin is a Hong Konger who once studied in Japan. For a job with a relatively important position like the head of the office, it’s better to have a Japanese person sent there by the headquarters.
Not to mention that the chairman has always placed great importance on entering the mainland Chinese market.” Nanno Takayuki put forward a true thought of his own and said.
“Whether it’s a Japanese, or someone from any country, as long as our Hard Gold Group wants to become a large multinational company, then using foreigners as managers will be an inevitable trend.
Not only will there be cases where the middle management is foreigners, but in the future there will also be cases where the top management has foreigners as well.
“I completely agree with this viewpoint of the Chairman, after all, there has never been a situation where any large multinational company above this world has only had people from their own country as managers.
There is always a first time for everything. Since Wang Lin is the most suitable candidate at the moment, it’s only natural that she should be placed in the most suitable position.” Oda Feitsugu expressed his approval, saying.
“I don’t have any objections to whether or not Japanese people have to be used as managers. The only thing is the gender. I’m not discriminating against women, I’m just talking about things.
When women get married and have children, it’s not the same as us men. If it’s an ordinary employee or a middle or lower level manager, it’s not a big deal.
If a woman in middle or senior management resigns or takes maternity leave, it will have a negative impact on the company.
My personal opinion is that we should be very careful when appointing women to middle and senior management positions.” Kazuya Takahashi spoke eloquently.
“You also left out one point, which is that women are more prone to being emotional, more emotional, and lacking in rationality compared to men. Not to mention Eastern women, even the number of Western women in middle and upper management is far less than that of men, and it stems from that.” Kobayashi Kiyoshi said nonchalantly.