Human resource management
Noting the importance of experienced store managers, UNIQLO has created positions for them, such as supervisor, block leader, Super-Store-Manager, Super-Star-Store-Manager, and franchise owner. Chosen from store managers, superstar store managers are asked to handle a large amount of stock and budget, and their pay varies depending on their performance. By conducting this personnel policy, the company makes sure that each shop should be the solo profit center with its manager as a hard-working merchant, not an ordinary company employee who is supposed to do his job ordinarily. Young talented employees are always promoted rapidly.

Every activity undertaken by every employee, from a person’s folding technique to the way advisers (floor salespeople are called advisers) return charge cards to customers (Japanese style, with two hands and full eye contact) are recorded and analyzed. The firm is now building a Uniqlo University in Tokyo where 1,500 new store managers will be trained each year.

Japanese Fashion Chain UNIQLO Introduces Worldwide Equal Pay System Across Its Stores

The introduction of these new policies will mean Japanese and foreign employees will be working under the same conditions and therefore subject to the same systems of evaluation with regard to their performance and attitudes towards work.
It is believed that with everyone being on an equal footing, worldwide competition will also heat up. On the other hand, if the new pay system takes root it could mean a decrease in Japan’s comparatively high pay rates.
Another area of difficulty is the so-called Japanese corporate work culture which has not much considerations for a work-life balance

Make English as Uniqlo’s official corporate language
Fast Retailing, operator of the Uniqlo apparel chain, wants to make English more common in its offices by 2012 and