Universal Scientific Industrial

Through diversified educational training, USI helps its employees cultivate professional abilities and grow and improve learning effectiveness. The most important learning and development system in the USI cultivation program is USI University (USIU). USIU sets up College of Management, College of Technology, College of Quality, College of Manufacturing, College of Sustainability, and General Knowledge Center. The principal of USIU is served by the Company's president, and the deans of each college and General Knowledge Center are served by vice presidents with reputation and expertise in various fields. USIU integrates global learning resources for employees to learn and develop. For Dual Career Ladder and Learning Model information, please refer to "Work in USI".

Dual Career Ladder

USIU provides a holistic learning and development framework for employees to actively retain talents by strengthening the "Dual Career System" of management and professional positions. With a mission of realizing high operational performance, USI establishes an innovative learning environment and is committed to improving employee professional quality, leadership management, and innovative research and development capabilities inside the organization. It has targeted employees with different competences to plan various employee training and courses, provide them with a complete learning platform, help them to solve work issues, and enhance their professional capability to reach organizational targets. We take Human Capital Return on Investment (HC ROI) to evaluate the effectiveness of various talent training and development projects. The 2023 Company's overall HC ROI was 2.49.

In 2023, the total training hours were 417,418 hours, and the average per employee was trained for 24.5 hours. The training statistics for each employee category are as follows:

Strengthen Employee Sustainable Employment Ability and Lifelong Learning Program

• Life-long Learning Programs
  • USI has continuously enhanced employees' sustainable employment ability, assisted employees in acquiring skills and ability management and lifetime learning programs that are required for a job transfer in the future. Starting from 2018, Zhangjiang, Kunshan, and Mexico Facilities have invited local colleges or universities to cooperate and hold 14 in-house academic degree courses in the facility, so that employees can avoid the commuting trouble and make the best use of their time to get a high school, college, or university diplomas/degrees. As of the end of 2023, a total of 312 employees have been supported to obtain academic degrees, and a total of 155 employees have been supported to obtain academic degrees in 2023.
• Professional Skills Certification
  • In terms of professional skills certification, the Kunshan Facility became the first batch of High-skilled Certification Enterprises of Jiangsu Province in 2019. In 2021, it has already had the ability to certify three types of jobs (as special installation and adjustment electronic equipment technician, debugging broadcasting and communication equipment technician, and electronic installation in broadcasting and communication equipment technician) and four levels of qualifications for junior, middle, high, and advanced technicians. As of 2023, we have trained a total of 2,685 certified skilled technicians, including 711 junior technicians, 810 intermediate technicians, 815 senior technicians, and 349 advanced technicians. This project allows USI to establish its own ability of training and evaluating professionals, to improve individual professional functions and cultivate and retain talents for the organization. According to the 2023 training plan, 780 professionals, around 4.6% of the employees, were trained and gained certifications. The estimated benefit was more than CNY 4.19 million.
  • In terms of managerial position certification, we arrange management cadres to train managers at all levels according to the Company policies, core skills, management functions, human resources, financial accounting, and other concepts to prepare the Company's management echelon to ensure that the internal management talents meet the Company's development demands. We hold strategic leadership development programs (TWI/MIT/MTP/BU Head Cultivation) to obtain benefits such as strengthening management capabilities to their subordinates improving teamwork efficiency, planning the best workforce for the organization, reducing personnel costs, and reorganizing space layout. 416 employees, around 2.4% of the employees, attended the training according to the 2023 training plan. The estimated benefit was around CNY 1.82 million.
  • In terms of professional position certification, USI implements a position certification system and establishes a professional ability verification mechanism for each position so that every employee in the same position has certain professional skills. Through the Professional Position Certification, employees shall improve their key capabilities such as problem analysis and problem-solving and provide them with a clear career roadmap for self-development. We include problem-solving training as part of our mid-level training program. After the training, it generates more solutions which lead to greater and more productive outputs than one employee can likely generate. Even better, those outputs are coordinated with every aspect of the work contributing to the team's success. 189 technical employees, around 1.1% of the employees, attended this training program according to the 2023 training plan. The estimated benefit was more than CNY 1.2 million.
  • In addition, the Company organizes lectures, forums, and job rotations to do the real practice, etc. to cultivate the abilities of employees at all levels to take up new positions. In 2023, there were 2,080 participants in the leadership and management forums, 270 participants in the technology forums, and 309 participants in the sustainable development lectures to cultivate and strengthen their own abilities to accept new challenges.
• Internal Instructor Training Program
  • USI has trained and certified employees through the internal instructor system to serve as lecturers, forming a good knowledge inheritance culture, and giving full play to internal human resources and influence to provide employees with high-quality and forward-looking courses to cultivate world-class talents for the Company to enhance the Company's global competitiveness. By the end of 2023, 1,129 instructors have passed the internal instructor program.