32 Creating Added Value at ALTANA
“STRENGTHENING GLOBAL THINKING”
Motivated and qualified employees are the basis of ALTANA’s sustainable
growth. The company’s pioneering talent management for young staff
and managers generates the required added value for our stakeholders
with specific human resource development programs.
Project work with colleagues across three continents and three
time zones? Project meetings at midnight? “That was a remarkable
experience,” says Ka Lai (Mandy) Lam. “But a positive
one,” she adds. The head of Finance, Controlling & Supply Chain
Management at ECKART Asia in Hong Kong participated in
ALTANA’s
Management Development Program (MDP) and is impressed
by its structure and content. “The intensive program
helped me to improve my knowledge and my abilities, to learn
new things, and also to find out a lot about myself,” says
Mandy Lam. During the program, she visited sites of ALTANA’s
four divisions across the globe. “The personal contact at the
sites opened my eyes to the possibilities that exist.” She is fascinated
by the opportunity to cooperate with people from differ-
ent cultures.
Practice and theory – MDP participants experience
production close up, for example at the
ECKART and ELANTAS plants in Zhuhai, China.
They work together on projects right on site.