7. RESULTADOS Y CONCLUSIONES
7.2. Conclusiones personales
The Mikron Group conducts a regular qualitative survey to determine the indicators that are relevant to sus- tainability reporting.
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Number of staff Total Switzerland
2014 2013
Number of employees (FTEs) <30 years 150 124 Number of employees (FTEs) 30–50 years 396 412 Number of employees (FTEs) >50 years 229 219 Total number of employees (FTEs) 775 755 Number of male employees (FTEs) 708 693
Number of female employees (FTEs) 67 62
Total number of employees (FTEs) 775 755 Number of male senior managers (FTEs) 94 93 Number of female senior managers (FTEs) 4 3 Total number of senior managers (FTEs) 98 96 of which currently living within 25 km
of company 63 61
as % of total 64% 64%
New employee hires Total Switzerland
2014 2013
Number of new employees (FTEs) <30 years 55 46 Number of new employees (FTEs) 30–50 years 32 44 Number of new employees (FTEs) >50 years 6 5 Total number of new employees (FTEs) 93 95 Number of male new employees (FTEs) 85 86 Number of female new employees (FTEs) 8 9 Total number of new employees (FTEs) 93 95 Mikron Sustainability Report
People
The Mikron Group builds its commercial success on quali- fied and motivated staff. In interpersonal relationships – be it with colleagues, customers, or business partners – Group management promotes and demands respectful and loyal conduct at all times. The Mikron values provide essential guidance in this respect (see page 11).
All employees are obliged to adhere to Mikron’s Code of Business Conduct. This sets out the relevant principles of ethical behavior in writing and applies to all of Mikron’s areas and sites. The aim of the Code is to ensure that the Mikron Group comes across as a good corporate citizen, complies with legislation, and creates a working environ- ment characterized by mutual respect, openness and per- sonal integrity. The Mikron Group’s membership of various industrial associations and interest groups is one way in which it advocates the attitudes encouraged by the Code.
Health and safety |
The health and safety of staff are extremely important to the management of the Mikron Group. Internal processes are regularly reviewed for poten- tial negative effects on health and safety. One of Mikron’s most important objectives is to minimize the risk of indus- trial accidents. There was just one industrial accident at Mikron in Switzerland during the year under review.Employment conditions |
Mikron staff benefit from attractive working conditions. All employees at the Mikron sites in Switzerland are covered by the collective employ- ment contract of the Swiss mechanical and electrical engi- neering industries.Occupational pensions are governed by legislation in Swit- zerland. Survivors’ and old-age insurance (“AHV”) is the compulsory pension insurance system that applies through- out Switzerland. This secures a basic standard of living fol- lowing an employee’s retirement from work due to old age or death. Workers in Switzerland with a total annual income of more than CHF 21,060 are additionally insured in the pension fund of their employer. This insurance is also man- datory, and supplements the basic AHV pension benefits. Pension fund contributions are divided 50/50 between em- ployer and employee.
Employee satisfaction is very important to the Mikron Group, and regular surveys are conducted to establish its level. 65% of Mikron employees participated in the last one, which took place in summer 2014. All locations were in- volved except those in Asia. Overall job satisfaction had risen by 5% since the previous survey.
Advanced training |
Like our customers, the Mikron Group is finding it increasingly difficult to recruit employees with both technical qualifications and language skills. De- spite our good reputation as an employer, it was only with difficulty that we managed to fill a number of interesting and challenging positions during the reporting year. Re- cruiting, keeping and developing employees and inspiring them to embrace shared goals and practices remains one of the principal challenges at all our locations. This led in No- vember 2014 to the launch of the Mikron Management and Leadership training program, in which employees from Agno, Boudry, Rottweil, Berlin and Monroe took part. Employees in Switzerland spent just under 23,000 hours in advanced training during the reporting year. This is equiva- lent to an average of 30 hours per staff member, seven hours more than in 2013. In 2014, 65% (previous year: 81%) of employees received individual feedback from their line managers on their performance over the past twelve months. The companies in Agno were responsible for the decline. Management has already taken steps to increase this proportion as quickly as possible. Individual feedback helps Mikron to pursue the important objective of identify- ing possible advanced training needs.Headcount |
The Mikron Group has around 1,200 em- ployees throughout the world. There were 775 full-time equivalents (FTEs) employed in Switzerland at the end of 2014 – 20 FTEs more than in 2013. A total of 77 FTEs left Mikron companies in Switzerland in the reporting year, while 93 FTEs joined these companies. This marginally in- creased the fluctuation rate, from 8% in the previous year to 10%. The rate of absenteeism (working hours absent as a proportion of annual working hours) fell from 3% to 2%, thus remaining at an encouragingly low level. At the end of 2014 the Mikron Group had 54 FTEs in Switzerland em- ployed as temporary contract workers.Diversity |
As in other industrial companies, most of the employees of the Mikron Group in Switzerland are men. This hardly changed in the year under review: the propor-Employee turnover Total Switzerland
2014 2013
Number of employees (FTEs) <30 years
leaving the company 22 24
Number of employees (FTEs) 30–50 years
leaving the company 36 22
Number of employees (FTEs) >50 years
leaving the company 19 16
Total number of employees (FTEs)
leaving the company 77 62
Number of male employees (FTEs) leaving the company
72 55
Number of female employees (FTEs)
leaving the company 5 7
Total number of employees (FTEs)
leaving the company 77 62
Turnover rate 10% 8%
Training hours Total Switzerland
2014 2013
Total training hours 22,914 17,436
Other Data Total Switzerland
2014 2013
Rate of absenteeism 2% 3%
Number of employees (FTEs) receiving
individual feedback 505 609
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women pursuing initial training in engineering and technol- ogy amounted to just 6.3% in 2012 (source: Swiss Federal Statistical Office).
The average age of employees at the Mikron Group’s Swiss locations fell during the reporting year. When broken down by age category, it is still the 30 to 50-year-olds that are most strongly represented (51% of the workforce) but the proportion of under-30s increased by three percentage points in 2014, to 19%. There was virtually no change in the proportion of over-50s as compared with 2013 (30%). The Mikron Group has employees of a number of different nationalities at its Swiss locations: most (51%) are Swiss, followed by Italians (27%) and French (5%). This is due to geography: Agno is on the border between Switzerland and Italy, while Boudry is relatively close to France. Mikron em- ployees in Switzerland come from a total of 35 different nations.
In the year under review, 64% of employees at Senior Man- agement level lived no more than 25 kilometres from where they worked.