Investing in the knowledge and development of all employees is essential to the success of Krka and its employees. Employee development is systematically planned, and continuous education enables our employees' professional and personal development as well as their advancement at work.
We identify and systematically train our key and promising employees early in their careers. By training and allowing them to gain experience in various areas and by mentoring and coaching them, we prepare them to take on the most challenging and responsible tasks in the Company. As we are aware that early identification of talent is essential, we have implemented a project for finding the potential in employees already in their first year of employment.
In 2015, there were 1,153 key and promising employees, 10.9% of the entire Krka Group team. The need to train key and promising employees and well-trained leaders encouraged us to start our own leadership programme. It comprises three programmes that are adapted to different
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Exchanging experience and transferring good practises is important for our success.
levels of management: Krka International Leadership School, the Krka Operational Leadership School and a basic level leadership programme. Coaching and action learning supplement the leadership programmes and contribute to the development of leaders. We also provide an in-house international programme for professional and project teams to train professionals in communication skills, teamwork and project work; learn about and exchange Krka's good practices; connect employees from various backgrounds, and encourage employee personal development. Our employees also attend leadership and management training programmes at renowned business schools.
In order to systematically develop employees who have potential, we have designed a special mentorship programme which involves meeting some of the renowned and well-known Krka employees. Mentorship is a goal-oriented and planned consulting process, which enables an exchange of experience and the development of the potential of employees who may come from various countries.
An important tool enabling effective leadership, motivation and the development of employees is the Krka appraisal interview. Managers and employees use it to define objectives, discuss priorities and expectations relating to work and employee development, and on this basis plan the employees’ training. All employees are involved in the Krka appraisal system.
Competency models for various working areas enable us to identify needs pertaining to the development, knowledge upgrade and further skills development of our employees. Competencies are a good basis for the recruitment of new employees and for designing training and skills development programmes and their evaluation.
We provide our employees with continuous education and training in various specialist fields, such as management and personal growth, foreign languages, particularly English and Russian, quality management, and modern information technology.
Our employees learn about the most recent developments at faculties, institutes and other institutions in Slovenia and abroad. In 2015, 371 Krka employees were also part-time students, of whom 48 were involved in post-graduate studies. Krka supports them by partly funding the fees and by granting them study leave.
Krka was one of the first companies in Slovenia to develop programmes for national vocational qualifications (NVQ). We are the only company in the country to offer six programmes of national vocational qualification for the pharmaceutical industry. Employees in pharmacies and other pharmaceutical companies are involved in these programmes. In 2015, we awarded 67 NVQ certificates. In total, we have awarded 1,306 certificates since 2004 – 1,164 to Krka employees and 142 to employees of other companies and pharmacies.
For employees in the marketing-and-sales network, several training programmes are available that are conducted by over 70 Krka trainers who work in an international environment. In this way, good practice transfer between various markets is secured. For all functions, we have an established system of induction for new employees, and for those who will take on new, more responsible jobss.
Traditional forms of education and training are supplemented with e-learning and e-testing, which have become important training tools, since Krka is geographically widely dispersed. E-learning and e-testing are also
used as preparation for seminars and meetings, since they ensure a higher level of knowledge and participation at training sessions.
In 2015, all employees attended various training sessions more than seven times. On average, employees undertook 56 hours of professional development. Krka spends 0.5% of its operating revenues on employee education and training.
In order to connect employees from different countries and achieve synergy in the pursuit of our
goals, we organise international conferences on different areas of our operations: marketing, sales, technology, human resources, and regulatory affairs. They offer an opportunity for the employees of Krka and its subsidiaries and representative offices abroad to exchange experience, analyse current challenges, and discuss common strategies and goals and how to transfer good practices to enable the Company success in the future.
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We care for the quality life of employees and retirees.