COMMERZBANK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT

Group Management Report
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140 Commerzbank Annual Report 2011
In 2011, staff submitted a total of 1,381 ideas on WikIdee, as well as 4,883 comments and
38,693 votes. More advanced ideas are transferred from WikIdee to ComIdee. WikIdee is an
important platform for the “Commerzbank Excellence” programme. The success of our ideas
management was also recognised through another award from the international association
“Ideas America”. WikIdee is unique in the financial sector. The benefit achieved by ideas
management in 2011, net of all costs, stood at around €3.42m, based on an average five-year
application period.
Promoting health, living and working actively
We have used numerous measures to help staff stay healthy at work. In doing so, we improve
well-being, motivation and the performance of our employees. Our health management constantly
expands and optimises the offerings to reflect the changing requirements of the professional
daily routine. In the process, we assume a duty of care for our staff and strive to
reduce absenteeism. The staff sickness rate at Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
stood at 4% in 2011, the average number of sick days per staff member was 9.9 days.
We introduced the “Health in Commerzbank” interactive training programme last year to
improve staff awareness of health issues. This Intranet programme, which covers topics on
health in the workplace, stress management, how to avoid addiction, nutrition and exercise,
has to be completed by all Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft staff in Germany. Shortly after the
introduction of the first of three modules, the programme was completed more than four times
as often as the previously most successful electronic obligatory training course in the Bank.
In a joint initiative by the overall works council and health management, we established
the “HORIZONT” network in August 2011 for those affected by burnout. Around 50 staff
took part in the first event. The network in which those affected work together, offers an exchange
and information platform. As with our other company networks, the content and organisational
work is independently structured and is run in close cooperation between the
works council and health management.
Medical screening is an efficient way of promoting health issues and improving quality of
life. Consequently, senior staff at Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft in Germany have been
offered health check-ups since 2011.
We support all staff who would like to play sport after work by offering them a range of options.
Our 160 sports associations throughout Germany are dedicated to all popular types of
sport and have a total of 17,000 members. The work of the sports associations is organised by
3 committees and several divisional heads, so that, overall, there are close to 1,000 staff involved
in corporate sport on a voluntary basis. Around 800 sportsmen and women took part in
our first joint nationwide sporting competition, the ComGames, in September 2011.