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Prysmian Group – 2015 Sustainability Report
Prysmian’s People
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TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT: PRYSMIAN GROUP ACADEMY
About 750 employees involved in 2015
In order to develop its people, in 2012 the Group created the Prysmian Group Academy, an international
managerial and professional training school whose objective is to develop and consolidate the leadership
and technical expertise of its management.
All the training provided is monitored with systems to measure both its effectiveness and the satisfaction of
the participants.
Prysmian Group Academy
, the Group's Corporate University, has a Professional School and a School of
Management.
Professional School
The objective of the Professional School is to develop and consolidate the know-how and technical skills of
individuals, ensuring that experts transmit their knowledge of the product portfolio to younger people, with a
view to building an in-house network. Training during 2015 involved about 350 employees from all
continents, with activities concentrated in the following functional areas:
Manufacturing Academy: this has been made possible thanks to a strategic investment in training
infrastructure at the Mudanya plant in Turkey. The school aims to develop the expertise of
professionals operating at the Group's 80 sites.
Research and development: courses delivered by senior Group experts, which seek to develop
technical skills in the areas of innovation and product development with the aim of providing
customers with technologically innovative solutions at ever more competitive prices;
Manufacturing, Quality and Supply Chain: dedicated to staff in the Operations division to develop key
skills in production management;
Purchasing: designed to develop excellence in managing the procurement of materials and services,
tackling in particular such key topics as negotiation;
Sales and Marketing: designed to consolidate and develop technical-commercial skills relating to the
various business segments, such as market analysis and the commercialisation of Group products;
IT: dedicated to providing the knowledge needed for the effective use of SAP One Client;
Interfunctional: specialised courses aimed at developing cross-sector knowledge;
Human Resources: courses that consolidate the skills needed for managing the fundamental
processes of recruiting, training and personnel development.
School of Management
The School of Management, which is run in partnership with SDA Bocconi and a network of leading
international business schools, has seen 500 staff participate since 2012. Another 200 will participate in
2016 alone. The school is designed to attract talented staff with the aim of sharing a common vision of the
business, diffusing the values and culture of Prysmian and exposing them to the best managerial practices.
The full product portfolio of managerial training programmes, which are structured to suit the various
participants, will bring the trainees closer to an MBA. The programmes include: