What is Corporate Social Responsibility? - InnoTrain CSR

Eelco Hoedemaker
Head of Innovation Management
And it is very interesting to see this motivation, to share this information, to share
these products, to share these ideas and that’s very important.
The working atmosphere at Hanning & Kahl is very friendly. It's a nice mixture of
working atmosphere, so working as a team to reach your goals, but also a very
friendly way, free-time way. We also offer a variety of training courses, health
courses, language courses like German, English, Spanish, French and there are
many social events. And one of these events is our “HA-KA-Rad-Tag”, it's an
Hanning & Kahl-bicycle-day. At the Hanning & Kahl-bicycle-day employees can go to
their job by bike instead of taking the car. It has an healthy aspect, it has a social
aspect. And it also motivates people just to use another transportation way. And they
meet each other also on a hobby level.
Gudrun Neitzke
Employee
This activity is great, we get to meet in advance, have fun on the way and we are
doing something together outside of work. You meet people from other departments
with whom we have nothing to do professionally. It is definitely beneficial to look
beyond the rim of the teacup and get to know the other departments better.
Eelco Hoedemaker
Head of Innovation Management
At Hanning & Kahl we have a “BVW”-system. “Betriebliches Vorschlagswesen”, in
English it's called an idea management system. Over the last years it grew more and
more towards what we call now CSR: To work together with our goal, or eventual
goal, it's called in German: “Mündige Mitarbeiter”. Translated into English it is more
the responsible employee. With our idea management system we offer a platform on
which we gather all these ideas of our employees. They want to share their ideas,
they are very proud of these ideas and they also want us to implement them, in a
very fast and easy way.
Vural Kaya
Employee
When I have an idea or a suggestion for improvement, I first check if this works
properly. Then, we formulate: what is our idea and how did this work before. Then we
are looking for a supervisor and submit the idea to our supervisor.
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