Boehringer Ingelheim Corporate social responsibility: We care for our people

Our performance and development culture

Training & Development

Our aspiration to continuously innovate requires firm commitment from everyone in the company. Ongoing dialogue between our employees and their supervisors is also essential to allow all parties to participate in our achievements and development. And our ability to progress coherently towards realising our vision by developing and leveraging the immense diversity within the company is pivotal to our success.

Human Resources planning process in place

Our annual employee – supervisor dialogue (Mitarbeitergespraech – MAG) is at the core of our performance and development culture. Engaging and stretching performance objectives are mutually agreed and career aspirations and perspectives for professional development are addressed. Every individual is expected to have a valid and forward-looking development plan to meet the qualification needs of our rapidly changing business and work environment.
Career aspirations and prospects are also embedded in our global succession planning process. Here we seek to guarantee a strong pipeline of leadership talent for local and international key positions. Talent reviews linked to the succession planning support the identification and development of leadership talent across the corporation.

International assignments are an integrated part of our succession planning process and our business and capability development.

Enhance cultural understanding and broaden a global mindset

Our international assignees represent a large number of our organisations and are uniformly distributed throughout our geographical regions. While the focus groups and purpose of the assignment might differ from strategic positions to development measures or knowledge transfers, these moves serve clearly as a vehicle to enhance cultural understanding and broadening a global mindset.

Boehringer Ingelheim Academy

The Boehringer Ingelheim Academy, encompassing a variety of development courses and approaches in numerous countries, is designed to support and strengthen our core values and capabilities. Everyone at the company can access local and international development information on our intranets. The Boehringer Ingelheim Academy offers a wide spectrum of options from vocational subjects to leadership development programmes.

We create a context in which our people can excel

We foster good leadership at all levels. Carefully tailored local and international development approaches are applied to help our current and potential leaders to discover ways to create a context in which our people can excel and all of us can continuously enhance our outcomes.

International Management Development Programme

	Our fourth consecutive International Management Development Programme (IMDP), launched in 2007, marked the beginning of 14 months of international, interdisciplinary learning and working for some 130 potentials. The programme involves participants in hands-on work on 16 strategically relevant projects, close professional mentoring and frequent exposure to senior management in various countries.

Last update: 11.04.2008