The Swiss Arbeitgeber Award 2015

The Swiss Arbeitgeber Award 2015 A BENCHMARKING INITIATIVE BASED ON THE LARGEST AND MOST COMPREHENSIVE EMPLOYEE SURVEY IN SWITZERLAND DESIGNED AND MANAGED BY ICOMMIT SUPPORTED BY THE SWISS EMPLOYERS FEDERATION (SCHWEIZERISCHER ARBEITGEBERVERBAND), HR SWISS AND THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE BILANZ

1 2 3 The Swiss Arbeitgeber Award A CHANCE TO COMPARE YOURSELF WITH THE BEST AND INCREASE YOUR ATTRACTIVENESS TO EMPLOYEES What s involved? The Swiss Arbeitgeber Award provides organisations in Switzerland and Liechtenstein with a unique chance to compare themselves as employers with the countries top firms. This direct comparison with others can give you a clear impression of internal optimisation opportunities. This is because your employees represent the best source of information for a detailed evaluation and assessment of your organisational conditions. Of the businesses taking part, the best employers in four categories based on the size of their workforce (50 99, 100 249, 250 999 and 1000 + employees) will receive the label Swiss Arbeitgeber Award. The survey, evaluation and benchmark comparison are carried out by icommit, one of Switzerland s leading providers of employee surveys. A sign of the broad support enjoyed by the Swiss Arbeitgeber Award is the fact that it is supported by the Swiss Employers Federation (Schweizerischer Arbeitgeberverband), HR Swiss and the business magazine Bilanz. Evaluation criteria for the Swiss Arbeitgeber Award Organisational conditions Personal attitudes STRUCTURE CULTURE MANAGEMENT INCENTIVES TRANSFER OF KNOWLEDGE Job content Work and leisure Workplace Structures and procedures Collaboration within the company Dealing with changes Customer orientation Company strategy Integration of employees Immediate superior Executive management Goal agreement Employee promotion Remuneration Knowledge management Team COMMITMENT SATISFACTION NO RESIGNATION APPEAL OF THE EMPLOYER EMPLOYER RECOMMENDATION Photo captions (left to right): 1 Award ceremony 2 1st prize 100 249 employees: Hotel Hof Weissbad 3 1st prize 250 999 employees: Liechtensteinische Alters- und Krankenhilfe 4 Katja Herz (host), Urs Burgunder (President of HR Swiss) 5 Gala dinner 6 1st prize 50 99 employees: ipt Innovation Process Technology AG 7 Sven Bühler (CEO of icommit) 8 1st prize 1000 + employees: SV Group 9 Roland A. Müller (Director of the Swiss Employers Federation)

5 6 The benefits Benchmarking can help you to find the right starting points for improvement. Survey design Switzerland s largest survey of employees gives staff the chance to evaluate their employers. In contrast to other surveys, what counts is the verdict of the employees themselves rather than an assessment by an external judging panel. You can gain a whole host of benefits from taking part in the Swiss Arbeitgeber Award: The employee survey allows your workforce to give a comprehensive evaluation of your organisational conditions and captures their perspective on your business (see the diagram below left). This provides you with a solid basis of information that you can use to develop your organisation further in cooperation with your employees. Thanks to the benchmarking process, you receive concrete details of how your organisation is positioned in relation to other businesses. You can publicise your organisation s strengths in your corporate communications and use them for your employer branding. Any weaknesses, relative to other employers, can be tackled and improved in a targeted way. If you are ranked one of the top employers in the Swiss Arbeitgeber Award, you can use that designation in your HR marketing activities. A proven evaluation tool An easy-to-understand questionnaire gives your employees the chance to comprehensively evaluate your organisational conditions and to record their perspectives on your business. In addition, the statistical analysis identifies the importance attached to specific aspects relevant for employee satisfaction and commitment. The questionnaire is continually updated to take account of the latest developments in the world of work while still providing data comparable with previous years results. The survey therefore takes accounts of the EFQM business excellence framework as well as academic research on the qualities found in high-performance organisations. If you already conduct surveys of your employees, you can transfer the findings into the evaluation for the Swiss Arbeitgeber Award and thereby benefit from a comparison with other leading Swiss organisations. Customised questionnaires and enhanced evaluation options The standard questionnaire can be supplemented with questions specific to your organisation. In addition, the evaluation model can be modified to cover business divisions, departments and teams. A straightforward employee survey procedure The employee survey is conducted with the involvement of your HR department. A range of different documents provides assistance with the process. Your employees can complete the survey both online and on paper in any of ten different languages. The survey will involve either your entire workforce or a randomly selected sample. Meaningful results Every organisation receives a detailed report of the survey results that describes employees current perceptions of your business as a place to work. The informative report presents strengths and weaknesses in comparison with those of other organisations and in comparison with those found in your specific sector of activity. The report also indicates those aspects of your organisation as a place to work that have an especially important influence on employee satisfaction and commitment levels.

8 9 Who carries out the survey? Testimonials from the winners 2014 The survey is conducted by icommit The Swiss Arbeitgeber Award is managed by icommit s research and consulting team (www.icommit.ch). icommit ensures that the questionnaire is continually refined and handles both the evaluation and preparation of the results. In addition, icommit will be glad to support you, for example, with the production of a presentation on the results for your management team or employees or with workshops in which your managers can analyse and consider the findings. Confidentiality guaranteed icommit carries out the employee surveys in accordance with the guidelines set by the vsms (the Swiss market and social research federation). This ensures that the data are handled in conditions of absolute confidentiality. 1st prize (1000 + employees): SV Group, Dübendorf Patrick Camele, CEO We are delighted to have won a Swiss Arbeitgeber Award 2014 and believe that it s an important sign of recognition. Our employees are at the heart of our business. The way that they treat not just our guests and customers but also each other is what really makes our business stand out. Benchmarks that compare with other companies and industries are much more valuable than internal benchmarks. 1st prize (250 999 employees): Liechtensteinische Alters- und Krankenhilfe, Schaan Thomas Riegger, Chairman Carrying out employee surveys is a core component of our quality management system. The results enable us to identify both our strengths and those areas where there s a potential for improvement. We find icommit s well-structured and informative documentation of great help during the process. We are very happy to have won 1st prize in the Swiss Arbeitgeber Award. This shows us that we re on the right track with the direction we re taking. A happy workforce is the best way of guaranteeing that our customers are happy too. 1st prize (100 249 employees): Hotel Hof Weissbad, Weissbad Christian Lienhard, Director/Owner We are especially pleased to have been awarded this prize two years in a row. It confirms that investing in our employees a key goal of ours will bring continuous benefits. Our policy of managing with love has borne fruit. It means viewing humanity as the key to success, having natural authority instead of ruling by force, setting examples instead of dictating, and participation instead of repression. 1st prize (50 99 employees): ipt Innovation Process Technology AG, Zug Peter Graef, Managing Partner This prize means a great deal to us for two reasons. First, it makes our staff proud to be part of an organisation that receives this award. It has a motivating effect to know that we re doing something right despite the day-to-day challenges involved in IT consulting and that we feel we re all in it together as a company. And second, as a smaller consultancy firm we can still hold our own in the battle to recruit the best people. We re using this award in our HR marketing and really believe it when we tell new candidates that their decision to work for ipt is the right one.

Apply now! Swiss Arbeitgeber Award 2015 BECOME ONE OF THE MOST ATTRACTIVE EMPLOYERS IN SWITZERLAND When you take part in the Swiss Arbeitgeber Award you re bound to be a winner. You might even win a place as one of the country s top employers. But even if you don t, you ll gain detailed insights about how your organisation is perceived as an employer. Key dates for your diary Eligibility Costs Final date for applications: 8 May 2015 Duration of survey: a 3-4 week period of your choice between 4 May and 26 June 2015; earlier, if required. Final date on which survey responses can be included: 3 July 2015 Delivery of reports on the survey results: August 2015 The Swiss Arbeitgeber Award Ceremony: 17 September 2015 in Zurich Organisations with 50 employees or more, divided into four categories based on size Prizes are awarded in four categories based on the number of employees: 50 99, 100 249, 250 999 and 1000+. The Swiss Arbeitgeber Award is open to organisations employing at least 50 people in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. You can register or obtain further information by visiting www.swissarbeitgeberaward.ch or by calling 043 399 99 55. The costs for the employee survey are dependent on the size of the organisation and the level of detail applied to the analysis and reporting. The fees for participating in the Swiss Arbeitgeber Award is CHF 1,080 or, for members of HR Swiss, CHF 980. We are happy to provide you with a quotation based on your specific requirements. Swiss Arbeitgeber Award Poststrasse 35 8700 Küsnacht Telephone: +41 43 399 99 55 welcome@swissarbeitgeberaward.ch www.swissarbeitgeberaward.ch

The top 45 employers 2014 THE SWISS ARBEITGEBER AWARD 2014 GOES TO... The award ceremony The award ceremony for the Swiss Arbeitgeber Award 2014 took place on 17 September as part of the HR Swiss Congress in the Berne Kursaal. A total of 140 organisations took part in the competition. Prizes were awarded to the 45 best employers in four categories based on the size of their workforce (50 99, 100 249, 250 999 and 1000 + employees). An audience of around 250 guests watched the award ceremony and a series of film presentations about the winners. In addition, the key findings obtained from the employee surveys were also announced. The ceremony was followed by a gala dinner in Berne s Kornhauskeller restaurant, where representatives of the organisations taking part enjoyed a fantastic opportunity to chat with one another and celebrate their results. You can get an impression of the excitement of the award ceremony by viewing a short film of the event and the film portraits of the winners (www.swissarbeitgeberaward.ch). TOP 45 ranking 2014 top 5: Large organisations with 1000+ employees Number of participating organisations: 14 1 SV Group 2 BELIMO Automation AG 3 Prodega Growa Transgourmet 4 SFS Group AG 5 ZFV-Unternehmungen top 15: Medium-sized organisations with 250 999 employees Number of participating organisations: 46 1 Liechtensteinische Alters- und Krankenhilfe (LAK) 2 CKW Conex AG 3 Stämpfli Gruppe 4 Baumann Koelliker Gruppe 5 Heime Uster 6 Duscholux AG 7 ÖKK 8 Zehnder Group International AG 9 Competec Gruppe 10 St. Gallisch-Appenzellische Kraftwerke AG 11 Vebego 12 Bossard AG 13 Lyreco Switzerland AG 14 HUG AG 15 ex aequo: Badrutt s Palace Hotel Pestalozzi Gruppe top 15: Medium-sized organisations with 100 249 employees Number of participating organisations: 50 1 Hotel Hof Weissbad 2 Stiftung Kartause Ittingen 3 SCHLAGENHAUF Malen Umbauen Fassaden 4 Wäscherei Bodensee AG 5 Tegro AG 6 STEINHOF Pflegeheim 7 Mathilde Escher Heim 8 Gewerbliche Berufsschule Chur 9 Bezema AG 10 Alfred Müller AG 11 Halter AG 12 Klinik Adelheid AG 13 Stiftung Buechweid 14 Wacker Neuson AG 15 Crowne Plaza Zürich top 10: Small organisations with 50 99 employees Number of participating organisations: 30 1 ipt Innovation Process Technology AG 2 Hunziker Partner AG 3 BMW Niederlassung Zürich-Dielsdorf 4 Supercomputing Systems 5 GEOINFO AG 6 RailAway AG 7 rlc ag 8 KMS AG 9 KISSLING + ZBINDEN AG INGENIEURE PLANER USIC 10 Rolic Technologies Ltd.