Head of Human Resources wins HR Director of the ... - BNP Paribas

The Group’s workforce breaks down as follows:
- analysis by geographical area:
Middle East 0.7 %
Africa 5.4 %
South Africa
1.2 %
North
America
10.7 %
Europe 18.4 %
- analysis by business:
BNP Paribas Capital
0.04 %
Asset
Management and
Services 13.63 %
Corporate
and Investment
Banking 13.79 %
Asia 4.5 %
Oceania 0.4 %
Group Functions 5.74 %
France 58.7 %
French Retail Banking
34.12 %
International Retail Banking
and Financial Services 32.66 %
Career mobility
The Group adopts a proactive approach to career
management, promoting career diversity and
making every effort to assign employees affected
by staffing changes to new positions within the
organisation.
To rise to the challenges of a difficult economic
environment and ensuing slower-paced growth in
certain business lines, internal mobility-France
and recruitment teams were combined into
Group Human Resources in order to centralise
within a single unit responsibility for job
openings and internal or external hiring
decisions.
Thanks to this policy, after eliminating the impact
of job transfers related to changes in structure,
1,800 employees moved to a new job or a new
location within BNP Paribas in 2003.
The internal job postings site, Opportunités
Carrière, which is available to all employees via
the intranet, was used to fill some 30% of job
vacancies.
Hiring
Reflecting the weak operating environment in
France, the Corporate and Investment Banking,
and Asset Management and Services businesses
reduced hiring as from late 2002. The number
of people hired by BNP Paribas in France fell
to 2,500, down from 4,000 a year earlier, mainly
due to the uncertain short-term prospects
for a return to robust growth.
More than half of the new recruits joined
the French Retail Banking network, with
university graduates accounting for the bulk of
those hired. A large number of these employees
were hired in order to meet requirements for
service representatives at the Client Relations
Centres (CRC) in Paris-Tolbiac and Saran. In 2003,
more than 300 new team members were taken
on by these centres, thus allowing CRC projects
to be ramped up during the year.
Employee diversity
Since its creation, BNP Paribas has placed
particular emphasis on respect for people and
cultural sensitivity.
To bolster its worldwide development, the Group
has made strides in developing an international
management structure. At the end of 2003,
almost 50% of the positions within the Group
considered to be open to international candidates
were filled by non-French nationals.
For historical reasons, the proportion of women
in executive positions remains low. However,
this is gradually evolving toward a better
balance, notably due to the impact of the Group’s
demographic structure, an increasing number
of female recruits, and a higher number of
women managers being promoted within
the organisation.
Every effort is made to ensure that strategic
career management processes, which include
annual appraisals, career planning reviews and
succession planning, are non-discriminatory and
are designed to support the objective assessment
of the performance, skills, attitude and potential
of each staff member.
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