What is Corporate Social Responsibility? - InnoTrain CSR

Best practice examples of CSR
7.1. Hanning & Kahl – Video: CSR at the workplace
In short
The company Hanning & Kahl GmbH & Co KG headquartered in Oerlinghausen
(Germany) was founded in 1898. With its 327 employees, it generated a
turnover of 47.4 million Euros in 2009. Hanning & Kahl develops and produces
in various sectors break systems, point and signalling equipment,
management and information systems as well as services. The company is
setting technical benchmarks throughout the world for rail traffic and wind
energy systems. The 2009 export rate was close to 48%. Hanning & Kahl mainly
achieves win-win effects with its employees through Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR), by developing comprehensive programmes for human
resources development, employee motivation and innovation management.
CSR in the company
Since the 1990s, Hanning & Kahl has been strongly influenced by the Japanese
management concept KAIZEN, designed to analyse problems and possible solutions
in all corporate areas. Regular workshops contribute to the constant improvement of
the product quality and working conditions. According to the motto of KAIZEN:
“Today is our worst status”, the faster and more pragmatic option is strictly preferred
if several solutions are possible. Hanning & Kahl maintains an interaction between
quality and innovation management, mainly rooted in teamwork and an elaborate
corporate idea management system (BVW). The company pegs the annual profit and
savings resulting from BVW at more than 100‟000 Euros. In turn, close to 60„000
Euros are paid out annually as premiums to the submitters. In addition, Hanning &
Kahl donates one Euro to the Oerlinghausen children‟s fund for every implemented
improvement proposal.
By considering employees “engines of the future“ whose ideas and continuing
education are valuable, Hanning & Kahl is heavily investing into the qualification of its
workforce: two further education measures per employee and year are the goal. For
this purpose, one of a total of 7 continuing education officers is available to the
employees in every corporate division. Moreover, the company has been offering the
“HAKAfit“ programme since 2004. It features updated topics and schedules every six
months. They contain qualification offers (including language courses, courses to
upgrade the PC skills, intercultural management) along with a host of joint and
service offers for employees. They range from yoga and back exercises during the
work hours to advice with legal and tax-related questions and leisure activities such
as waterskiing and golfing. In addition, employees are able to manage their own work
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