Stakeholder engagement

Case study

Communication with employees

Our goal is to foster an environment where each employee can think critically and act independently by instilling sustainability values throughout the organization

In order to achieve a "virtuous circle of social and economic value," a goal created for Vision 2030, Murata promotes awareness activities within the company so our employees can factor in social issues while making daily decisions in their work.
Various initiatives based on issues and cultures of each business site are being developed by promotion personnel selected from each business site.
One of these initiatives is the “SDGs Workshop” (which features an engaging SDGs card game). With over 2,000 employees participating, in addition to understanding the essence of social issues, it has become a place where employees can think about the relevance of these implementations as well as what they are capable of doing and what they want to do.
The participants have stated they felt “more inclined to participate,” that “they want to incite change starting from the smallest of actions,” and that “it was a valuable communication tool as well.”
In addition to deepening our employees’ understanding through these initiatives, we aim to commit ourselves to initiatives that focus on generating more action in the future.

Communications with shareholders / investors

Co-creating value with shareholders and investors through constructive dialogue

Murata conducts various IR activities so that shareholders and investors would deepen their understanding of our management ideology and financial status. We have more than 500 dialogues per year with analysts and institutional investors, with more opportunities to speak directly with not only the IR department, but also management, including the President. We communicate with individual investors through general meetings of shareholders, etc. Valuable opinions obtained through these dialogues are shared by the IR department with Members of the Board of Directors, Vice Presidents, and related internal departments, and are reflected in the formulation of our management strategy and in efforts to enhance disclosure of financial and ESG-related information. We also provide feedback in our intern al IR activities* and link them to efforts toward value cocreation by all employees.

• Activities to provide employees with an opportunity to review their own company's issues by providing feedback from institutional investors, etc.

Communications with members of local communities

Realizing a sustainable society with the members of local communities

At Murata, we value communication with the members of local community and carry out various activities to realize a sustainable society. At Izumo Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Shimane Prefecture), in addition to visiting a local elementary school to give classes about the SDGs, we also worked with the same school on other activities, including jointly creating a map of the future that presented the wishes of children for a sustainable and better world and our employees’ resolutions for achieving the SDGs, and a food loss reduction challenge in which students competed with each other on their lunch completion rates. In this way, Murata is not only working to solve social issues as a company, but is also creating opportunities for each and every employee to enjoy working with the members of local community to confront familiar issues, think about what contributions they can make, and take action.