PEOPLE AT THE CENTER HUMAN CAPITAL IS OUR GROUP’S KEY ASSET. WE HAVE ALWAYS RECOGNIZED THE STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE AND CENTRALITY OF OUR PEOPLE TO DELIVER UPON OUR OBJECTIVES AND TACKLE THE MOST INNOVATIVE CHALLENGES. Our Human Resources policies therefore center on the capacity to attract, retain, engage and develop the professional skills-sets needed to safeguard and improve our competitivity in a constantly changing labor market. In the current environment featuring major shifts and socio-economic and cultural differences, a timely and concrete response to business demands and social changes is essential - in addition to an ability to re-write and reinterpret consolidated processes and paradigms. For this reason, alongside the more traditional hiring methods, we have opened up new web and specialized social network channels, attracting who is ready to tackle new challenges, motivated and result-focused and available to work overseas in multicultural environments. We also maintain close relationships with the leading universities in order to ensure our attractiveness towards new young graduates and also towards more senior personnel, offering opportunities for development and professional growth, together with competitive financial packages and benefits. In this regard, the willingness to introduce new retention levers and “widespread” involvement in the value creation led to totally innovate our Rewarding Policy,
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through the launch - as part of the most extensive Group engagement and incentive policy - of the Employees Share Ownership Plan as well as the Flexible Benefits Plan. Finally, through the “Be Adaptive!” Program, an innovative approach to Smart Working has been promoted, based on the engagement and accountability of the employees, not comparable to a simple introduction of remote working but, through a new “working culture” which takes advantage of the digitalisation, allows people to work at the most effective and productive times and places for them. Our way of doing business and creating sustainable value is driven also by an ongoing commitment to guarantee a working environment in which personal and cultural differences are seen as a resource and a source of reciprocal enrichment, with all assured the same opportunities for growth, rewarding merit, skills and expertise development.
BE ADAPTIVE! WORKING SMART IN MAIRE TECNIMONT GROUP
The introduction of Smart Working has featured an approach which - going beyond the mere concept of remote working wanted to establish a new working culture based on the involvement and the accountability of our People, confirming our flexible attitude towards market changes. During the year, the “BE ADAPTIVE! Working Smart in Maire Tecnimont Group” Program concluded successfully all the pilot phases, launching the deployment phase that has involved the population meeting the requirements for program access. By year-end, more than 700 employees of the Milan offices have been enabled to work “adaptively” and - confirming the importance assigned by the company to the program implementation – even 8,152 hours of training have been provided to personnel coordinators and their collaborators.