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Lowest sickness absence rate in the company’s history
For years, we have successfully pursued a policy of preventive health management. In
2005, the sickness absence rate at Deutsche Post AG dropped to 5.3%, the lowest it has
been since the company was founded. e certication for occupational safety was re-
newed, while the areas of industrial medicine and hazardous goods management were
successfully certied for the rst time. A study by the German business journal Capital
investigated the scope and eectiveness of health promotion activities, and how they are
integrated into the company’s structure. Its ndings placed Deutsche Post World Net rst
in a list of 100 companies.
More than 200,000 employee ideas
Our idea management posted a new record in the year under review: Deutsche Post employ-
ees submitted over 200,000 suggestions, up from around 136,000 the previous year. ese
suggestions have yielded a collective benet of €86 million. Idea management was also inte-
grated into our German subsidiaries and thirteen European Group companies in 2005.
Evaluating specialist staff and executives
2005 marked the second year of operation for our Group-wide performance management
system. is enables us to open up the prospect of international careers within the Group,
discover talented individuals and identify successors. e Board of Management and Hu-
man Resources Development took part in this year’s development conferences, which
aimed to assess the potential of executives at levels two to ve and to use this information
when making deployment decisions.
Recruiting the managers of the future
We want to attract international talent to the Group. is is why we are cooperating with
around 30 leading business schools, including Wharton and Yale in the eastern United
States, the London Business School and the Indian Institutes of Management in Bangalore
and Ahmadabad. e nal element of our involvement at this level is the Chair of Logistics
at the Chinese-German School of Postgraduate Studies in Shanghai.
AIESEC, the world’s largest student organization, named us their “Partner of the Year” for
the second year in succession. We oered internships to around 100 students worldwide,
and over 60% of the interns accepted an oer of a permanent position in the Group once
their internship ended. We are also involved with the European School of Management
and Technology in Berlin. is is a business school that was set up by German industry
and, as one of the founding members, we use it to attract and develop executives.
We are also treading our own path with the DHL Logistics Management University, which
we inaugurated in October 2005 in Shanghai. is is a management training facility that
oers 7,500 places a year for employees in junior, middle and senior management po-
sitions and has proved especially popular in China. e aim is to turn out world-class
logistics specialists who stay with us for the long term. As early as the end of 2006, the
university will have trained around 2,000 students in one of 40 programs.
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