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Personnel Development
The Pfleiderer Business Campus is the personnel development platform for the Pfleiderer Group.
Pfleiderer wishes to strategically develop competence levels among its management and employees,
thereby creating competitive advantages. This is done by offering employees target-group
specific multi-stage qualification courses on leadership, motivation, integration and qualification.
The courses and events offered by the Business Campus strengthen identification with the company,
and thus make a significant contribution to the creation of a corporate culture.
Joining Forces for the Future
The most important activity of the Pfleiderer Group during fiscal 2004 in terms of personnel development
was the process of setting up and developing Guidelines for Leadership and Working
Together. Economic conditions are constantly changing and employees face ever new challenges.
In this setting, the Guidelines provide orientation and direction. Created jointly through a series
of intensive workshops, these basic rules act as a guideline as to how employees, managers and
employee representatives work together and interact. All those involved are convinced that personal
performance can be improved at all levels, in all areas and in all tasks, thus strengthening
the Company as it moves forward.
These Guidelines for Leadership and Working Together reproduced here, were developed with
the help of employees at all levels within the hierarchy. Subsequently, the Guidelines were introduced
top-down, ensuring that senior management feels responsible for their implementation.
“Jugend forscht”
“Jugend forscht” literally means “young people do research” and is a competition where young
people can present their own innovative ideas. For the ninth time running, Pfleiderer AG sponsored
the regional round for the Oberpfalz in 2004. Entitled “Suddenly Everything’s Relative”, a
total of 115 schoolchildren and trainees from local companies took part in March 2004, presenting
68 different projects.
“Azubi forscht” – literally “trainees research” – enables Pfleiderer’s own trainees to prepare for
the competition with group projects covering working life and technology. This makes Pfleiderer
unique as a company in that it prepares its trainees during their apprenticeship with key skills
such as the ability to work in teams, how to take a systematic approach to problems, as well as
organizational abilities and other transferable skills.
The youngest winners of the “Jugend forscht” competition are invited to take part in a training
camp organized by Pfleiderer where they meet up with real working life and where they can try
to put their research ideas into practice.
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MANAGEMENT REPORT PERSONNEL