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Employees
As already announced last year, we are implementing ideas management through-
out the entire Group on a step-by-step basis. Deutsche Postbank AG and Postbank
Systems AG had already realized the technical and organizational requirements for this
by the end of the year, and other Group companies are scheduled to introduce them
in the near future.
Award-winning equal opportunities policy
Since 1997, we have used specific measures to promote a better work/life balance,
individual professional development, and a cooperative spirit in the workplace. In the
year under review, we again received an award from Total E-Quality Deutschland e.V.
for our long-term equal opportunities activities.
In the European Year of People with Disabilities 2003, we signed a voluntary
master agreement with Deutsche Post AG’s representatives for the disabled on the
integration of severely disabled employees. At the same time, we held a competition
for new ideas on how to improve the integration of severely handicapped people in
our facilities.
Sickness absence and accident rates down
In 2003, we continued with our extensive preventive measures to protect the health
of our employees. Their success can be seen from a further reduction in our sickness
absence rate, which reached its lowest ever level at 5.7%.
We also substantially reduced our accident rate. Deutsche Post AG received
this year’s DuPont Safety Resources Award for its focus program “Safe Hitching
Makes Sense”. Training sessions and video clips were used to familiarize drivers of
towing vehicles with how to hitch trailers safely to heavy goods vehicles. Since the
program began, we have drastically reduced the number of this type of accident
in the Group, and no fatal accidents have occurred.
Establishment and maintenance of international networks
Deutsche Post World Net cooperates with a number of national and international
universities and scientific institutes. Its MBA summer internship program enables
MBA students from all over the world, who already have solid professional experience,
to spend three-month periods working on strategic Group projects. The program’s
partners include well-known universities such as Wharton and the University of
Pennsylvania, and the London Business School is one of the universities that joined
in 2003.
By participating in this program, we are building an international network of
universities and can meet their graduates at an early stage. In this way, the program
helps us guarantee access to international executive talent and reinforces the Group’s
image as an employer.
We have extended the successful cooperation we established with the Wharton
Business School in 2002. In total, around 300 third-level executives participated in the
various programs in the year under review.
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