Advanced Training
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Standard-pay-scale employees |
16.6 |
13.5 |
12.8 |
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Above-standard-pay-scale employees2 |
19.1 |
22.6 |
21.7 |
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WACKER will remain innovative and competitive as long as it has highly-skilled employees, which is why we afford all our employees the opportunity to participate in additional training. Personnel development at WACKER seeks to cultivate employees’ strengths and to target specific groups. We encourage our employees to engage in lifelong learning and to remain open to change – especially since we have to adjust to longer working lives. At least once a year, employees and supervisors discuss development measures during performance reviews. This approach applies to all hierarchy levels.
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Participants of seminars / conferences / advanced training courses |
17,000 |
16,500 |
16,400 |
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E-learning courses |
82,000 |
66,000 |
74,000 |
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Employees in Germany can select advanced training courses from the wide range on offer under the WACKER training program. We currently offer some 200 seminars and training courses for a very wide range of target groups. Approximately 140 of these seminars promote technical skills development. Topics range from safety and environmental protection, to quality or project management, and on to business administration and IT. We support employees whose work involves international dealings by offering them seminars on language-related and intercultural topics.
Employees have access to a variety of (advanced) training courses at WACKER’s international sites as well. For example, about 1,070 participants completed 2,130 training days at WACKER Greater China in 2016 (2015: 1,260 participants and 2,450 training days). At Wacker Chemical Corporation in the USA, some 1,500 employees participated in around 6,500 training days in 2016 (2015: 1,300 employees and 5,600 training days).
Training for a Diverse Workforce
Diversity and inclusion play a key role in our learning program. Since 2016, female employees on all hierarchical levels can take part in programs developed especially for them. The development of women is specifically promoted in the seminars entitled “What helps women get on” and “Emotional intelligence: women, be more courageous!” Different generations working together is another important topic. We want to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by this and are offering, for example, a new seminar on the cooperation between baby boomers and Generations X, Y and Z.
WACKER invested €7.9 million in personnel development and advanced training in 2016 (2015: €7.7 million).