People Excellence

The SGL Group’s claim to be a leader in the carbon field, can only be fulfilled if the company meets the highest requirements in terms of costs and quality, customer relations, innovation and employees. This vision, which is anchored in the corporate strategy “We are the leading Carbon Company”, is implemented operationally through our SGL Excellence initiative. One of the four pillars of the initiative is “People Excellence”, the strategic focus of our HR work.

The philosophy underlying “People Excellence” may be expressed as: Entrusting the right employees with the right tasks at the right time. Every employee must be enabled and inspired to make his/her individual and important contribution towards increasing corporate success. In this context, leadership means enabling people to do the right things in the right way.

Our HR work therefore focuses mainly on the following global HR processes, which are established across the whole company in all divisions and functions:

Attract & Recruit      Recruiting and integrating new employees

Develop                       Target-group-oriented further development of our employees

Retain                          Long-term commitment of our employees

Through the use of globally established HR tools and instruments, we ensure that we can compete effectively for the best employees worldwide and recruit some of the best talented young managers on the labor market. The SGL Group places very high importance on the personal and professional development of all employees. A performance-related pay system is supported by a number of different variable incentive programs. These, like other tools, enable us to motivate employees over the long term to exceptional performance and therefore, to retain them in our company on a long-term basis.

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