EMPLOYEE RELATIONS - Alibaba
EMPLOYEE RELATIONS - Alibaba
EMPLOYEE RELATIONS - Alibaba
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<strong>Alibaba</strong>.com Limited Annual Report 2011<br />
<strong>EMPLOYEE</strong><br />
<strong>RELATIONS</strong><br />
Our TeAm<br />
As of December 31, 2011, <strong>Alibaba</strong>.com had a total of 11,415<br />
employees (or 12,878 employees inclusive of staff at our acquired<br />
companies such as HiChina and One-Touch), including more than<br />
400 employees in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, India, the United<br />
States and United Kingdom.<br />
remunerATiOn And BenefiTs<br />
To determine staff remuneration packages, <strong>Alibaba</strong>.com applies<br />
fair and equitable evaluation principles according to job duties,<br />
work performance, attitudes, abilities, adherence to our values<br />
and our company’s financial performance. In 2011, we continued<br />
to give regular salary raises to the majority of our employees and<br />
distributed bonuses according to their respective contributions<br />
to our company. This reward system offers incentives to<br />
top performers and also motivates individuals to challenge<br />
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WE CONTINUED TO FOSTER AN OPEN<br />
AND TRANSPARENT ATMOSPHERE<br />
WITHIN OUR ORGANIZATION AND<br />
PROMOTE THE CULTURE OF “WORK<br />
PASSIONATELY, LIVE FULLY.”<br />
themselves and aim higher. In 2011, the total expenditure for our<br />
employees amounted to about RMB2,835.0 million. During the<br />
year, we maintained a salary freeze for senior management at<br />
senior director level and above, and continued to link managerial<br />
staff performance bonuses to departmental results to strengthen<br />
their sense of ownership and urgency.<br />
OrgAnizATiOn, CuLTure And sTAff<br />
deveLOpmenT<br />
<strong>Alibaba</strong>.com was confronted with a number of unprecedented<br />
challenges in 2011. In response, we focused more on enhancing<br />
staff abilities, in particular, facilitating the growth and<br />
development of professional staff. We continued to foster an<br />
open and transparent atmosphere within our organization and<br />
promote the culture of “Work Passionately, Live Fully.”
Because our employees are our greatest asset, staff development<br />
and growth is critical to our business upgrade and expansion.<br />
To cultivate managers, we continued to run a series of training<br />
courses designed for mid-level and front-line managers. These<br />
courses, which are infused with <strong>Alibaba</strong>’s unique management<br />
philosophy and principles, can inspire managers at all levels with<br />
new ideas and equip them with practical management skills. In<br />
2011, we also paid close attention to nurturing our professional<br />
staff. By providing customized training programs for core<br />
professionals such as R&D personnel and product managers, we<br />
helped key personnel develop their abilities and advance in their<br />
respective professions.<br />
The culture of “to teach is to learn” that we have been fostering<br />
is taking root at <strong>Alibaba</strong>.com. By providing a self-learning<br />
platform on our company’s intranet, we encourage all employees<br />
to explore topics of interest and benefit from exchanges of<br />
professional knowledge and daily-life wisdom. Since the<br />
beginning of 2011, we have facilitated more than 900 forums<br />
with more than 15,000 participants, which has contributed<br />
to an atmosphere of continuous learning. Apart from this,<br />
<strong>Alibaba</strong>.com’s orientation sessions for new employees remained<br />
our most active training program. These sessions are dedicated<br />
to teaching recent hires about our corporate culture. In 2011,<br />
our orientation programs helped 1,700 new employees transition<br />
more smoothly into our big family.<br />
<strong>Alibaba</strong>.com actively fosters an open and transparent work<br />
environment by providing a variety of interaction channels that<br />
promote two-way communication between the company and<br />
staff. During the year, we organized more than 50 round-table<br />
meetings for managers at different levels to meet and listen to<br />
opinions from front-line staff; our regularly published in-house<br />
magazine, Aliren, provided all staff with an opportunity to share<br />
<strong>Alibaba</strong>.com Limited Annual Report 2011<br />
their own stories and thoughts; Aliway, a message forum on<br />
our intranet, continues to develop into an open, transparent<br />
platform for all staff to freely engage in a variety of discussions;<br />
and, the Global Channel continued to keep overseas staff abreast<br />
of company news. We also established the official <strong>Alibaba</strong>.com<br />
microblog to provide timely updates about <strong>Alibaba</strong>.com’s<br />
developments and promote our corporate culture.<br />
sTAff ACTiviTies<br />
<strong>Alibaba</strong>.com advocates “Work Passionately, Live Fully,”<br />
encouraging employees to do their best at work while also living<br />
a fulfilling life and giving back to society.<br />
In 2011, we organized a range of activities to promote<br />
this culture, among them: a staff party to commemorate<br />
<strong>Alibaba</strong>.com’s 12th anniversary; recruitment of some of our<br />
staff as “Ali-Models,” giving them a chance to present products<br />
supplied by our customers; and two charitable bazaars to help<br />
deaf and mute children realize their dreams. During the year,<br />
we also held our annual group wedding ceremony, allowing<br />
350 couples from <strong>Alibaba</strong>.com to tie the knot in the presence of<br />
fellow Aliren, as well as an open day for relatives and friends of<br />
employees to visit our corporate campus.<br />
Employee-run recreational groups also hosted a number of<br />
activities, including Chinese New Year scroll writing, music<br />
concerts and a Christmas carnival. By offering a platform for<br />
demonstrating their talents, these events encouraged ordinary<br />
people to achieve extraordinary things and helped enhance the<br />
staff’s sense of achievement and belonging.<br />
In 2012, <strong>Alibaba</strong>.com will continue to encourage and drive<br />
corporate, team and personal development.<br />
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