Human resources
Our staff
As part of the review of the corporate strategy, we also revised our human resources strategy in 2011. The core of our human resources strategy nevertheless remained essentially unchanged since it has proven itself in the past. What has now been brought out more clearly is that the success of our company is directly dependent on the successful work of our people. We therefore pay special attention to the qualifications, experience and drive to perform of our staff and foster these attributes through excellent personnel development and leadership activities. Special importance attaches in this regard to our managerial staff. They lead their teams in the spirit of our management principles. For some years now we have used management feedback as a means of reviewing successful leadership. In the year under review we once again reworked this management feedback process. We are thus aligning our personnel development tools even more systematically with the human resources strategy. Further matters dealt with were the revision of the remuneration structure for executive staff, a pilot project for the launch of “blended learning”, a linking of traditional face-to-face learning activities with virtual e-learning as well as the roll-out of state-of-the-art software to enhance the new appointments process.