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55
Every day, some 25,000 mail carriers make their deliveries by bicycle.
categorize all jobs according to their requirements and remunerate
correspondingly.
As for our senior managerial staff, a large portion of their total compen-
sation is calculated on the basis of operating results and the achievement
of goals individually agreed upon. We plan to extend this proven system
to our employees in general. This will entail coupling productivity with
quality goals, providing remuneration for individually defined objectives
and the utilization of various forms of team work. Collective negotiations
on such a performance-oriented pay system have been initiated.
Strong focus on training
In 1997, Deutsche Post again raised the number of traineeships,
this time by some 7.0 percent to 2,100. Courses in computer science and
systems electronics will be added to the in-house training curriculum
in 1998.