Gazprom-AR2014

Environment and Social Responsibility
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Professional growth and young talent management
Gazprom operates a further education scheme based on corporate educational institutions and
aimed at upgrading employee skills to meet the ever growing operational and performance requirements,
roll out new technologies and expand the Group’s regional footprint.
Gazprom’s personnel training and retraining practices allow the Group to efficiently manage
its personnel’s expertise and build up a talent pool capable of achieving innovative growth goals.
In 2014, 265,100 employees of Gazprom Group were trained under career enhancement and
retraining programmes.
Managing the Company’s talent pool is one of the top priorities to ensure its successful operation.
These efforts are aimed at ensuring that vacant management positions are filled in a
timely and orderly manner by highly skilled candidates with management competencies.
The talent pool includes some 14,000 candidates for leadership positions across all management
levels. Candidates from the talent pool accounted for over 65% of all appointments to leadership
roles.
Gazprom makes a special focus on young talent management.
The Group’s companies rank among the most attractive employers for young people and
undergraduates of major Russian universities (ranking 1st among the Top 100 most preferred
employers according to Universum’s survey of May 2014).
In 2014, Gazprom Group recruited over 2,409 young university and vocational school graduates.
The Group provided internship and pre-graduation practice opportunities to 10,628 university,
technical school and college graduates.
Gazprom has been implementing initiatives to create and improve an environment enabling
high quality professional training of specialists in major lines of business. As of 31 December 2014,
OAO Gazprom had cooperation agreements with some of the leading higher education institutions,
including Gubkin Russian State Oil and Gas University, St. Petersburg State University of
Economics, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, National Mineral Resource University
(the University of Mines), Kazan National Research Technological University, Ukhta State
Technical University, Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Education M. V. Lomonosov
Moscow State University, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, and National
Research University Higher School of Economics.
Employee incentive scheme and remuneration
Gazprom Group’s employee incentive scheme is a tool for attracting and retaining skilled professionals
by offering employees competitive remuneration and recognition.
Current remuneration schemes link fixed salaries and pay rates to qualifications and business
skills, and also provide for monthly performance bonuses, premiums and additional allowances
for work scope and conditions, annual and ad hoc bonuses.
To assess how competitive its salaries are Gazprom Group regularly benchmarks them against
the market using the findings of EY’s Compensation and Benefits Surveys. Gazprom Group’s
benchmarking found that its salaries were in line with the market rate.
OAO Gazprom Annual Report 2014