2005 Sustainability Report - Lafarge

Employee
at a Melon cement
plant, Lafarge
Chilean Cement
Business Unit.
Supporting the development of our
employees
Pursuing a responsible recruitment
and career management policy
ANTICIPATING CHANGES
IN OUR BUSINESS
ACTIVITIES AND
SUPPORTING
THE DEVELOPMENT
OF OUR EMPLOYEES
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Our business activities, which are operated from a long-term perspective, require Business
Units to be firmly anchored in local communities, and our overall performance derives primarily
from our employees' ability to optimize our production facilities. Our human resource management
policy reflects the Group's challenge of enabling its entire staff to develop their talents throughout
their career with Lafarge.
To facilitate this long-term management
of human resources, we incorporated
the “Organization and Human Resources
Review” process into the Group's
management cycle in 2003. It defines
the orientations in terms of
organizational changes and need of new
expertise, personnel development,
recruitment, internal evolution and
training.
Our employees' expertise plays a critical
role in optimizing our operations.
Training is thus a major priority.
Aggregates & Concrete integrated the
Batcher Competencies program into its
TOP performance program. The need
for customer focus and high quality
standards plus the specific characteristics