Employee development and support programmes
Gazprom Neft regards its employees as the Company's core asset requiring constant attention and care. The Company acts as a responsible employer, maintaining partnership relations with the staff, paying competitive salaries and wages, and offering career opportunities and a proper environment for efficient work.
In 2007-2009 the number of Gazprom Neft employees grew to more than 50000 people as a result of the Company's business expansion. Gazprom Neft employees work in more than 20 regions of the Russian Federation, as well as in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Belarus.
The Company guarantees its employees competitive salaries and wages in addition to respectable social benefits. Personnel costs in 2009 increased by 13.5 per cent compared to 2008 and exceeded RUB 28 bln. The Company's employees enjoy a number of employment benefits, including voluntary medical insurance, free meals, anniversary bonuses, material aid, payment for employee trips, leave allowance, payment for travel tickets, additional childcare allowance, presents to employees and their families for various occasions, and accident insurance. In 2009 social payments amounted to RUB 31,000 per employee.
Gazprom Neft management is continuing open dialogue with worker trade unions to address social issues. Trade unions operate at the largest Gazprom Neft companies such as Noyabrskneftegaz and the Omsk refinery, as well as at all service and sales subsidiaries. As many as 68 per cent of the Company's employees are members of trade unions. In 2009 the Company's management initiated the establishment of the Coordination Council for Trade Union and Staff Relations to form a common corporate approach in the social sphere.
Recruiting Young Talent
The Company seeks talented professionals i n an effort to become an industry leader in efficiency. Support for young professionals, skill pools, and a continuous comprehensive training system for all staff and all management levels are the key areas of personnel development at the Company.
The Company is looking for young talent in schools. In 2008 the Company opened a number of "Gazprom Neft Classes" in Noyabrsk to improve the quality of general education and provide career-oriented guidance for school children who go on to industry-orientated university and are eventually employed by the Company.
The Company works in close partnership with leading Russian institutions for higher education to train personnel for the industry such as G.V.Plekhanov St. Petersburg State Mining Institute, I.M.Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, and M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 2008 Gazprom Neft opened its own lecture room at G.V.Plekhanov St. Petersburg State Mining Institute. In 2009-2010 the Company, along with the Institute, organised Olympiads for school graduates in cities where the Company operates (Noyabrsk, Omsk) to select students to be enrolled in the higher educational institution. About 530 students from the partner institutions for higher education held internships at Gazprom Neft companies. Gazprom Neft-NTC LLC and Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas also entered into an agreement to open a basic sub-department at the university in 2009.
In 2009 the Company recruited 305 young professionals. The systematic involvement of young professionals provides for adaptation periods to encourage the best possible performance while creating conditions for professional development and career growth.
Number of young professionals employed by the Company
| 2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
| 285 |
276 |
238 |
279 |
238 |
341 |
305 |
In addition to employing young professionals, Gazprom Neft invests in the professional development of its employees. The Company has provided training for1290 employees.
The Company allocated RUB 105.6 million for professional development programmes in 2009 (versus RUB 30.8 million in 2008). Training programmes for the Company's employees consist of three main sections: professional training programmes designed to improve knowledge and skills for particular positions and functions, corporate management competence development programmes, and business awareness development programmes.
In 2009 the Company introduced modular programmes for management potential development for Gazprom Neft employees and managers at different levels: Business Leaders, Success Vector, Growth Managers, and Growth Managers +. All programmes are based on an analysis of the Company's business needs. It is expected that 250 to 280 employees will be trained annually in these programmes.
It is the Company's long-standing tradition to support sports. Sport contributes to corporate culture development, team building, and the promotion of a healthy lifestyle at Gazprom Neft. The Company's annual Winter and Summer Olympics are major milestones in the corporate calendar. The Olympics programme features competitions in the most popular sports such as football, volleyball, table tennis, kettle bell lifting, chess, cross country skiing, and hockey.
Support for the Company's retired employees
Gazprom Neft companies render financial assistance to retired employees, organise cultural and entertainment events, and generally do their best to honour veterans. Some employees get pay bonuses for long service.
The Fakel club in Omsk brings together almost 4000 retired employees who worked at the Omsk refinery for more than 15 years. The Omsk refinery makes extra payments on top of pensions for retired employees and also provides free medical services and facilities for club meetings and reunions.
