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participants in the next Management Development Program
(MDP) and the regional Development Program (DP) were
also identified in this way. The several-month programs have
proven to be valuable networks within the ALTANA Group
for promoting exchange between regions and subsidiaries.
ALTANA initiates specially developed dialogs for all em-
ployees to promote staff development. They include a prog-
ress dialog, which the disciplinary superiors carry out at
least once a year with each staff member. The progress dialog
serves to assess the performances of the employees and
paves the way for agreeing on targets with the employees.
If a work contract specifies that the target agreements
impact the compensation of the employee in question,
the target agreement dialog is supplemented by a target
achievement dialog. The superiors carry out the latter dialog
with the employees at least once a year as well. The three
dialog elements together constitute the ALTANA compass
dialog.
Women in Leadership Positions
With the Keep Changing Agenda, ALTANA has set itself the
goal of significantly increasing the number of women in
leadership positions. At the end of 2017, around 30 percent
of ALTANA’s employees in Germany were women, but only
23 percent of the managers were female. To improve this
ratio, ALTANA launched a project back in 2015 in which
experienced managers serve as personal mentors for poten-
tial female managers over a period of several months.
In light of the success of the mentoring project, ALTANA
continued it with 29 new tandems at different sites in
Germany and examined whether the project can be rolled
out Europe-wide.
Recruiting
In the 2017 fiscal year, ALTANA’s online recruiting was ranked
among the top 30 in Germany for the third time. In 2017,
the Potentialpark Group again examined 140 companies
within the framework of its online talent communication
study (OTaC). ALTANA improved again in the year under re-
view, finishing in 16th place in the overall ranking (previous
year: 17th place).
The ALTANA Group uses different proven instruments to
recruit university graduates. In addition to the Deutsch-
landstipendium – Talent meets sponsorship program, they
include cooperation with Rhine-Waal and Niederrhein uni-
versities. Here, ALTANA primarily promotes IT courses of study
to arouse the enthusiasm of this professional group for
the company. Among other things, the students have the
opportunity to do an internship in the ALTANA Group.
ALTANA has participated in the Deutschlandstipendium
for eight years. The 28 scholarship holders, who in the year
under review were enrolled in various courses of study, not
only received financial support. During a two-day meeting
at the company’s headquarters in Wesel, they learned more
about ALTANA’s corporate culture and had the opportu-
nity to gather information about internships, degree theses,
trainee programs, and mentoring offers.