Employees - Foundation of Success

The Company provides latitude for its employees to apply all of their talents.  As the development of the Group is ongoing, numerous new possibilities arise to find ways for employees to develop their talents. 

Corporate Behaviour
Ethical values have been the basis for profitable management of the Company since its beginnings more than 180 years ago, and therefore are deeply rooted in the corporate culture of the Vienna Insurance Group. The corporate behaviour of the Vienna Insurance Group toward its employees is guided by honesty and integrity, leadership in matters large and small, customer satisfaction, diversity and equal opportunity. A commitment to dealing with one another in a mutually respectful manner is also anchored in the Group’s values. Diversity and different talents and abilities are viewed as an advantage. The Vienna Insurance Group makes use of the potential inherent in its diversity.

People Strategy
V.I.G.’s “People Strategy” was developed for the Human Resources area based on the strategy of the Vienna Insurance Group. The People Strategy encompasses the three key strategic areas of human resources development – recruiting, development and employee loyalty at every level. more

Successful utilisation of development potential
To successfully implement V.I.G.’s People Strategy and actively support its employees, a uniform employee evaluation process was introduced that delivers results needed for such strategic Human Resources processes as training, development and career management and which therefore plays a central role in the personnel development process. This makes possible a uniform, group-wide, target-group specific evaluation of V.I.G. employees at all levels. 

Development Opportunities
He who wants to make things move, must himself be able to move. For this reason, the Vienna Insurance Group provides its employees with freedom and opportunities enabling them to “show what they are made of”. Through the expansion into Central and Eastern Europe and the resulting transnational cooperation within the Vienna Insurance Group, more and more international career opportunities are opening up for the Group’s employees. To be able to offer development programmes tailored to local requirements, each consolidated company is responsible for the development of its own employees. 

Corporate Volunteering
In the future, all socially minded employees in the administrative departments will be given similar recognition modelled on the example of the Czech group company Kooperativa pojišt’ovna, a.s. Vienna Insurance Group, where in 2009 every employee had the opportunity to dedicate a paid working day to a social cause. With this measure, the Vienna Insurance Group is looking to provide support and assistance to all employees who are conscious of their social responsibility. The “day for a better life” campaign at the group company Kooperativa in the Czech Republic proves that employees will gladly make use of such an opportunity. More than 450 employees there have already participated in a voluntary day and are showing their social responsibility in this manner.

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