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Benteler’s
“Rohrspatzen”
childcare center
actively supports
compatibility
between job and family.
MANAGEMENT REPORT
RAISIng eMploYee quAlIFICAtIonS AnD BuIlDIng loYAltY
Worldwide growth and increasing international, inter-divisional cooperation make jobs more complex.
To ensure that employees at all levels will still be able to meet the resulting requirements in the future,
they have access to an all-inclusive range of advanced training courses that enable them to earn further
professional and personal qualifications. The programs establish a shared understanding of procedures
and processes within the Company, and facilitate efficient cooperation.
The Benteler Group offers a 360° feedback questionnaire to support its management culture. The form was
custom-developed for the Company, and includes questions about the implementation of management
culture, the competence model, teamwork, and customer awareness. Along with the employee’s own
self-assessment, the form also includes feedback from all the employee’s professional interfaces with
others.
the “RohRSpAtzen” ChIlDCARe CenteR
To support employee satisfaction, Benteler invests in a family-oriented personnel policy. The “Rohrspatzen”
childcare center in Paderborn, Germany, which opened in 2008, enables working parents to combine
job and family. Care in mixed-age groups is provided for children from four months to six years of age.
The facility is certified as a “Little Researchers’ House.” The initiative’s goal is to study nature and the
environment with the children, for example in scientific experiments.
heAlth MAnAgeMent
A company must be able to rely on its employees’ ability and willingness to perform. That is why, as
part of its company health management system, the Benteler Group sustainably works to protect every
employee’s health at its divisions and international companies. It takes a holistic approach that
includes offering sports and prevention activities, as well as many different programs concerning
health, stress relief and nutrition.
As society undergoes demographic change and retirement ages rise, it will become more and more
important to keep a company’s employees healthy and able to work into advanced age. Mental and
physical stresses on the job have steadily increased over the past few years. For that reason, during 2011
the Company developed a new concept for integrated health management, taking demographic change
into account. The plan has been introduced successfully at the first plants. To deal appropriately with
future changes, sensitize executives and give them readily available options for action, seminars on
healthy work and management have been added to the range of advanced training options.
enCouRAgIng gooD IDeAS
The Benteler Group’s employees actively contribute their ideas to help further optimize the work environment
and job life at the Company. In 2011 they submitted more than 7,500 suggestions for improvements
(prior year: 6,600) by way of the Company Suggestion Program. The potential for savings, improving
communication, and optimizing processes, with the associated leveraging of competitive advantages,
are important reasons to keep actively soliciting employees’ ideas and making the most of the Suggestion
Program as a management tool.
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