Sustainability

"We consider our company to be a community of people, and our people are one of its most competitive assets. We work with 75,000 employees with the aim of bringing out and rewarding the talents and abilities of each one. We work to strengthen a common industrial culture and identity and we are committed to providing welcoming, safe places to work."

The mainframe of Finmeccanica’s development strategy are the people that make up the company. Finmeccanica has few equals on the Italian and international scene, with almost half its workforce being involved in research and development activities. It is from these people, their expertise and their wellbeing, that the capacity for innovation and the ability to create new opportunities derives.

Helping to grow the company’s human capital means guaranteeing that it will continue to be a dynamic, state-of-the-art organisation capable of competing successfully on international markets.

In order to achieve these goals it is necessary to attract and maintain the best talents on the one hand, and on the other to develop the skills and expertise of those who have been working satisfactorily within Finmeccanica for years.

Finmeccanica is a very special type of community, featuring on the one hand an extremely high percentage of university graduates (particularly in scientific subjects), and on the other hand a great manufacturing vocation in which people from different generations all work together, each with their own specific aspirations and desires.

Trying to respond to their expectations while at the same time stimulating that “New Mindset” required by recent company strategies, also means setting up pathways dedicated to specific target areas of the company population.

In a Group as widely articulated as Finmeccanica it is also of fundamental importance to help feed a common organisation culture. This is why careful investigations on company culture and climate (Business Culture Project) are carried out every two years. Specific meeting opportunities are organised every year for managers in all Group companies, together with events to celebrate those who, after thirty-five, forty or forty-five years of honourable service in the Group, reach the moment in which they pass the baton on to their younger colleagues.

To find out more about how Finmeccanica structures its operations in these areas, please consult the chapter “People” in the 2010 Sustainability Report.