Heightening management transparency
through corporate governance
Since emerging from bankruptcy, the JAL Group has made
every effort to secure management transparency and build
an organization that invites open discussion. Our corporate
governance system also precludes arbitrary decisions on such
issues as managers’ appointments, remuneration and disciplinary
action by establishing appropriate committees. The number of
outside directors has been increased to three as of fiscal 2016.
Issues in the Corporate Governance Code remain to be resolved,
such as the method of appointing a successor to the CEO and
determining remuneration for management, but progress is being
made toward resolving these issues.
Although our corporate governance mechanisms are in the
process of ongoing improvement, I am convinced that no amount
of improvement will have any great significance unless “spirit”
is instilled in corporate governance. Without spirit, erroneous
management decisions and scandals will occur no matter how
finely tuned the mechanisms may be. For the JAL Group, the JAL
Philosophy is the decisive factor in raising awareness of governance
among all our executives and employees, and for instilling the
mechanisms with spirit. Executives and employees alike spend a
great deal of time on education in the JAL Philosophy. Continual
education will promote proper action based on correct thinking.
For the JAL Group, this is the most effective method of inspiring
spontaneous governance instilled with spirit. Esteem for the JAL
Philosophy should be the foundation for the mindset and actions
of all our executives and employees, and for the construction of
highly transparent mechanisms. If I, for example, as the executive
responsible for our overall corporate management, am about to
make an erroneous decision or action, I can count on someone
around me to stop me.