LITE-ON's Commitment to Learning and Development

Employees are our most important asset, and education and training are important means to ensure that the value of our human resource capital continues to appreciate in value. Our learning and development declaration is: “The goal of learning and personal development is to improve employees’ professional competence, enhance employees’ working performance, boost the effectiveness of organizational operations, achieve the company's business objects and ensure corporate sustainable development”. As a result, learning and development receive the highest degree of emphasis at LITE-ON.

LITE-ON's Learning Structure and Roadmap

Learning at LITE-ON is based on on-the-job training and individual development plans, covering the four major parts including orientation training, specialized training, leadership training by management level, and self-development. The training is intended to help employees identify with LITE-ON's core value and realize the Company's vision and strategies.

Average Training Hours 2016

The following table shows the average number of training hours received by LITE-ON employees in Taiwan, China and Thailand in 2016 (this includes both practical training and e-Learning courses) and the trend chart for data in the last two years.

Training Overview – Taiwan

The total number of people and hours of practical training and e-Learning recently 3 years. Practical training: e-Learning:

Training Overview - China

The total number of people and hours of practical training and e-Learning recently 3 years. Practical training: e-Learning:

Training Overview - Thailand The total number of people and hours of practical training recently 3 years.

We are dedicated to improving our learning development infrastructure and management system in order to provide an excellent and well-rounded HR development environment and platform. The following refers to some of our efforts and achievements in the recent years:

Strengthening Our Learning Development Infrastructure

Friendly Learning Environment

We implement a desired e-Learning platform in Taiwan and China. The e-Learning system ensures that employees may access to a learning environment without limitation of time or space, and employees may arrange their own courses and learning schedules to their sole discretion. They also can view the instructor-lead-training material saved in the system from time to time. E-learning platform utilization can reduce the natural resources used and thus be better for the Earth.

Multi-Dimensional and Plenty Learning Resources

Each year, the company introduces new online courses in addition to a broad range of learning materials such as online courses, e-books, and knowledge banks etc. that employees may study on their own outside of working hours. Since the creation of the e-Learning platform in 2006, there has been a consistent increase in the number of users and learning hours.

Raising LITE-ON's Training Development Quality

In order to improve and upgrade the training development quality, we follow the principles and requirements of TTQS (Taiwan Training Quality System), continue enhancing connection between the organizational needs/strategies and the training, and consistently spare no efforts towards trainees’ learning result follow-up and transfer. We won the HRD InnoPrize and the TTQS Silver Medal Prize awarded by Taiwan government- Workforce Development Agency (WDA), Ministry of Labor Affairs.

Full-range Courses

Comprehensive Orientation System

-3-stage Training for New Hires

In order to quickly familiarize new hires with LITE-ON's corporate culture, vision, policies, and rules on health and safety, all new hires are required to complete a 3-stage orientation within six months of their onboard date. Furthermore, the company makes sure that 100% of new hires are briefed on LITE-ON's sexual harassment prevention policy and employee code of conduct on their first day on the job.

Courses on "LITE-ON Vision, Mission and Strategy," "Employee Code of Conduct and Anti-Corruption Advocacy," and "Information Security" are included as part of this orientation, which every new employee is required to attend. The orientation not only conveys the company's vision, mission, strategies and ethical standards expected from employees, but also gives trainees a good understanding of how the company enforces its anti-bribery policy.

-Specialty Training for New Hires

Once new employees commence their duties within their assigned departments, they are subject to full training in professional skills, quality and hands-on practice so that they may begin to make a contribution as soon as possible.

Leadership Training

LITE-ON's leadership training has been integrated with its promotion system. Managers who have been recommended for promotion during a given year are required to complete the necessary management courses and develop the skills and knowledge required for the next level before being promoted according to the company's "Promotion Policy." For senior managers, promotion is approved only after the candidate has finished the required courses and passed various assessments and interviews. These courses include: Daily work management, communication and coordination, problem analysis and decision making, project management, goal management, etc.

Fundamental R&D Training

These courses are part of the learning program for R&D personnel, which new recruits are expected to complete within one year of employment. They cover professional knowledge on power supply, LED, institution, and safety rules.

Technical Training

These courses focus on exploring product trends and new technologies. They are taught mostly by college professors or industry experts to product managers and R&D personnel in general; course materials are discussed in advance between the R&D department and individual lecturers. In addition, the R&D department also arranges to have employees attend external courses.

Quality Generation Training

For compliance with ISO and TS quality standards, employees are required to undergo basic quality courses as well as more advanced training as customers may require.

Performance Enhancement Training

Comprising of leadership, language, and marketing courses, this program is intended to improve employees' work efficiency and managers' leadership skills.

Integrating Group Resources into a Talent Bank and Common Management Language

Creation of Managers' Success Profiles

Success Profiles have been created based on the knowledge, experience, capabilities, and characters expected from a manager. They are used as guides to employees' career development.

Development of a Talent Bank

A company-wide census was conducted to build up a database of managers' knowledge, experience, capabilities and character; so that any open positions can be filled with suitable talent within a relatively short period of time.

Common Leadership Courses

These courses aim to build up common language among managers and eliminate cultural differences, thereby shorten the time required to adapt to the new management.

Advanced Product Innovation

Industry-academia Collaboration

As part of LITE-ON's commitment to corporate social responsibility, a platform for both theory and experiential learning has been created in collaboration with universities for our employees, students, and the public in general. The program is founded upon technological projects, graduate studies and internship programs and combines theories to cooperatively educate and cultivate new talent. In the company's effort to continue its sustainable business values, we hope that this program will put the company into direct contact with leaders of the next generation, thereby providing support to the company itself and offering a great benefit to society, the industry and the individuals involved.

Ongoing Recruitment

Through the aforementioned programs and R&D substitute service opportunities, LITE-ON has been working with universities to train students with the complete set of skills as a means of quickly recruiting R&D talents from graduating students and creating a stable source of talent.

Enhancement of R&D Capabilities

To quickly nurture new talent, the company has committed substantial resources to building up basic skills and general knowledge among R&D personnel, thereby making sure that new recruits are able to engage in productive work within the shortest amount of time. To cope with the rapid progression of technology, college professors and doctoral degree holders in various fields of expertise have been invited to host seminars, giving R&D personnel a boost of knowledge that would work in favor of new product development.

Thorough Execution of Internal Management

Developing a High Performance Management Model

To ensure that business strategies and management practices are properly implemented from the top-down, the company holds monthly management meetings where managers are gathered to communicate the latest strategies and practices. Industry experts, government officials and scholars are invited to host management seminars from time to time, whereas managers are given the opportunity to attend management trainings outside the company.

Enhanced Leadership Skills for Primary-level Managers in China

To enhance the leadership and management skills of primary-level managers (team leaders) in China, LITE-ON has been introducing the Training Within Industry (TWI) for Supervisors program into its Chinese factories. The purpose of TWI was to build up a group of qualified internal instructors and standardized training materials that can be applied consistently to improve the leadership and management skills of primary-level managers.

CSER-related Training Programs

CSER OrientationCSER Orientation

To help new hires develop a proper understanding of CSER and the efforts taken by the company, LITE-ON has been incorporating CSER as part of its orientation programs.

CSER e-Learning

Through a series of e-Learning courses, the company addresses employees on CSER issues. In addition, courses such as "Corporate Social Environmental Responsibility (CSER)" and "Social Engagement" have been made a mandatory part of orientation to promote the importance CSER principles. We hope that all employees can join together to accomplish our company-wide CSER goals.

Promotion of CSER e-Learning

LITE-ON issues regular newsletters (LITE-ON Volunteer, HRD Team) and the quarterly "LITE-ON Magazine" (an internal publication) as a means of conveying CSER values, inviting employees to volunteer, and sharing what the organization has committed to and achieved.

CSER Training in Every Unit In order to provide every employee with a proper understanding of CSER, the company utilizes meeting sessions to convey the latest regulatory changes and the company's CSER efforts, thus progressively incorporating CSER into employees' daily lives.

Electronic Industry Code of Conduct (EICC)

Practical Training Courses

We incorporated EICC into the orientation training program, and expect new employees to understand LITE-ON strive to implement EICC in daily life. We hold EICC related propagation or enhancement training classes in random in PRC area to broaden training scale. LITE-ON makes sure that its employees are aware of the safety standards, respect and dignity entitled at work, as well as the company's policies on environmental protection and ethical conduct.

E-learning Classes

To ensure that all employees understand the contents of EICC and comply with the relevant requirements, we started providing EICC on-line courses in the e-Learning system to enable all employees to review EICC standards and regulations by themselves without limitation of time or space.

Training Progress

The number of participants and the number of training hours for EICC, CSER and anti-corruption in 2016 are shown in the table below:

Security Training to Protect Corporate Human Right

LITE-ON strive to conduct employee safety management and corporate confidential information protection in order to ensure a safer working environment and to protect corporate confidential information and the profit of corporate, clients, employees & stockholders.

LITE-ON set up an advanced access control system, personnel get in and out of offices or factories with various authorization. Guards selected strictly by condition and background should receive trainings on manners, traffic conduction and security check orientation.

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