HK inno.N

Talent Development Strategy

HK inno.N aims to cultivate "upright talent" to drive organizational growth by establishing a talent development system tailored to job grades and roles.
The company offers customized training programs for employees, including common, leadership, job-specific, and global training, as well as various activities to enhance organizational culture. HK inno.N plans to continuously expand and improve its training system to ensure employees grow alongside the company and develop their expertise.

• Talent Pipeline Development : To nurture talent for future industrial development, HK inno.N participates in the Ministry of Education's "On-site Practice Semester for University Students." This program is based on an industry-academia collaboration between universities and HK inno.N, providing students with opportunities to gain practical experience related to their majors and explore career paths.

Talent Development Programs

• Common Training : HK inno.N provides company-wide training on core values, ESG, and CP to instill essential values. Regular training, job-specific common training, and online courses are offered to create an environment conducive to self-directed learning, enabling employees to align their work effectively with the company's direction.
• Leadership Training : Leadership training is provided to employees newly promoted or assigned to managerial roles, including promotion training and new manager training. Leadership development programs are conducted to cultivate leaders who will drive HK inno.N's business. For managerial positions such as team leaders, leadership training is tailored based on a leadership capability model and leadership health diagnosis results, helping to address areas for improvement.
• Job-Specific Training : HK inno.N strives to offer customized training for roles specific to the pharmaceutical industry (e.g., production, R&D, sales) and actively encourages participation in external training and seminars.
• Global Capabilities : To expand global business and secure future competitiveness, HK inno.N offers various programs to enhance employees' global capabilities. These include online and offline foreign language courses, with the company supporting language certification exam fees twice a year.
• Induction Training : Onboarding programs, soft-landing training, mentoring for new hires, buddy programs for experienced hires, mid-career leadership lectures, and retention training are provided to help new and experienced employees adapt to the organization, fostering a sense of belonging and motivation.
• Retention Training : Retention training is offered to employees in their first or third year of employment to enhance their understanding of their roles and improve job engagement, strengthening their cultural fit within the organization.

Competency Enhancement System

HK inno.N establishes job-specific competency requirements and develops recruitment processes to evaluate these competencies, ensuring a customized recruitment approach. For new hires, internship programs are utilized to assess job suitability and organizational compatibility, while in-depth professional interviews are conducted for experienced hires to evaluate their expertise.

• Internal Job Posting System
  HK inno.N values employee growth as a core principle and operates an internal job posting system to provide opportunities for personal development and diverse career paths. This system is conducted 2–4 times annually and goes beyond merely filling vacancies. It offers all employees the chance to design and challenge their own career paths, positively influencing their sense of initiative and work engagement.
• Employee Club System
  HK inno.N supports club activities by providing funding for hobbies that bring employees together across ranks, departments, and seniority levels. These activities encourage voluntary participation, strengthen a sense of belonging and emotional bonds, and simultaneously support stress management, work engagement, and work-life balance.

Creating a Pleasant Corporate Culture

Organizational Culture and Leadership Diagnosis

• HK inno.N conducts annual organizational culture and leadership assessments to enhance employee satisfaction and engagement, fostering a workplace culture that is pleasant to work in. The company regularly evaluates employees' perceptions of work methods and leadership levels, as well as the realization of social values such as communication, trust, and fairness within the organization. Based on the diagnostic results, HK inno.N identifies improvement tasks to ensure stable human capital development, increase employee engagement, and strengthen responsible decision-making frameworks. Through regular organizational and leadership diagnostics, HK inno.N aims to establish strategies for organizational change and implement improvement measures continuously.

Executive Meetings

• HK inno.N provides platforms for transparent information sharing between executives and employees to maximize organizational synergy. Direct face-to-face meetings are held between executives and employees to facilitate horizontal communication. CEO meetings are organized by department to discuss topics tailored to the characteristics of each organization. Additionally, "Empathy Management Forums," such as town hall meetings, offer opportunities for employees to directly communicate their questions or suggestions to executives, contributing to the establishment of a transparent organizational culture.

Evaluation and Compensation

Fair Performance Evaluation

HK inno.N operates the Performance Management & Development System (PMDS) to manage annual work processes and achieve fair performance management and talent development. Employees set individual achievement and competency goals aligned with the organization's key performance indicators (KPIs), conduct self-assessments on goal attainment, and receive comprehensive evaluations and feedback from their supervisors. If employees disagree with the evaluation results, they can utilize the "Open Door" process for deliberation and adjustment, ensuring fairness and transparency in the evaluation process.

Performance-Based Compensation System

HK inno.N pursues a performance-based HR system that provides reasonable rewards to all employees, including those in sales, marketing, R&D, production, and staff roles, based on fair performance evaluations. The performance-based compensation system applies to all employees, including non-sales staff, and annual salary adjustments are differentiated by performance grades. High-performing employees receive additional capability premiums on top of the standard increase rate, encouraging voluntary engagement and performance creation. Furthermore, the company operates various performance-linked compensation systems, such as organizational incentives tied to annual organizational goals and individual evaluations, to enhance work engagement and motivation for performance improvement.

Employee Welfare

HK inno.N operates a comprehensive employee welfare system designed to harmonize work and life for all employees, taking into account various aspects of daily living to enhance satisfaction. Additionally, based on Kolmar Group's consistent commitment to addressing social issues and creating social value, HK inno.N has implemented family-friendly policies to tackle the national crisis of ultra-low birth rates. These include expanding childbirth incentives and mandating parental leave.

Support and Benefit	Details
Lifestyle-Based Welfare Points	Welfare points are allocated annually to all employees, allowing for various use tailored to individual preferences such as daily living, convenience, culture, and leisure.
Housing Welfare Loan	As part of support for stable housing, HK inno.N provide interest-free or low-interest loans to employees preparing for housing transitions based on their life stage.
Sharing Both Joy and Sorrow	HK inno.N provide support for employees and their families during special occasions by offering congratulatory or condolence payments, leave for special occasions, commemorative items, and wedding car services
Medical supports for employee healthcare	We provide annual health check-ups, coverage for heart disease treatment costs, reimbursement for medical expenses, and support for infertility treatment for couples.
Various supports for childcare	HK inno.N have implemented the Emergency Childcare Shortened Work Hour Program and the Childcare Leave for School Admission Program. Additionally, we provide parental leave, childcare allowances, educational expenses, and caregiving support for children with disabilities.
Support from pregnancy to childbirth	HK inno.N provides a Reduced Work Hour Program during high-risk pregnancy periods, fetal examination leave, and childbirth incentives. Additionally, we offer 90 days of paid leave for women and 20 days for men upon childbirth, as well as one month of paid parental leave regardless of gender.
Self-Development Support every five years	Every five years of service, employees are provided with a two-week activity support period and financial support to foster personal growth. By combining this with two weeks of annual leave, employees can take up to four weeks off.
Support for Growth	HK inno.N support the growth of our employees by providing funding for internal and external training, foreign language education, and language proficiency tests, as well as operating library with requested books and an online library.
Speical Day, Speical Present	HK inno.N provides gifts for occasions that will be celebrated with family, such as birthdays, family month, promotions, elementary school enrollment, and encouragement for children preparing for college entrance exams.
Supporting hobbies to promote work-life balance	HK inno.N supports hobbies enjoyed with colleagues by providing a monthly club subsidy of 30,000 KRW per person.