Sustainability Report 2012 - Generali Versicherung AG

To foster greater staff involvement in the pursuit of itsbusiness strategies, the Group promotes numerousdialogue initiatives such as workshops, conventions andmeetings, the most significant of which in 2012 are outlinedbelow.In Italy, team building and corporate volunteering initiativeswere carried out, and the 5 stages for the environmentworkshops (see the chapter Environment and ClimateChange) were held. In addition, the Performance anddevelopment dialogue, a system for managing individualperformances that involves dialogue between managersand employees (see section Remuneration, incentives,assessment), was extended to new services andcompanies. The surveys on the commuter journeys ofItalian Group employees, carried out by the Group MobilityManager to identify possible personalised sustainablemobility actions according to town, site and company (seethe chapter Environment and Climate Change), were quitenoteworthy.In Italy, France and Germany all Generali InvestmentsEurope SGR employees participated in the workshopsorganised in relation to the creation of the assetmanagement One Company with the aim of facilitating theintegration of countries/companies in terms of four priorityareas (Responsibility, Delegation, Learning, Delivering).In France, the Group continued to pursue the permanentAmbition Generali initiative, a participative-managementand knowledge-sharing project that seeks to defineGenerali’s strategy for successfully dealing with therisks and opportunities brought about by change. Theplus points of the initiative, which involves the broadparticipation of the workforce, are the active support ofthe Top Management, the customer-oriented organisation,the in-depth communication of the project and its results,and the concrete responses provided for the identifiedrequirements. To implement the organisational changedefined by Ambition Generali, developing the ability ofindividuals to adapt their own roles to this change, anotherimportant initiative has been launched, the Organisationdu Travail Responsabilisante project, which involves theentire workforce.In Germany the permanent Heute für Morgen: Ichunternehme Zukunft (Today for tomorrow: I am theentrepreneur of my future) initiative continues. Launchedin 2009, this project involves 99% of the GeneraliDeutschland Group workforce. The initiative consists ofan open discussion on issues relating to the future of thecompany, such as: business evolution trends, challengesfor the future, the possibility of controlling change andimproving company wellbeing through the responsibleassumption of an active role at individual level.Another important initiative pursued by the GermanGroup is that of corporate volunteering, which in 2012involved 300 employees in 23 different projects, whichreceived positive feedback from all stakeholders (seechapter Community).Finally, the workforce is also engaged via the companyintranet - a tool dedicated to all employees that is designedto facilitate internal communications by permitting thepublication of operational and regulatory information, newson projects, events and organisation notes - and e-mail,which is used to provide punctual communications on thelatest company news.EMPLOYEES | 67