Personnel
Updated HR strategy
Pohjolan Voima’s human resources strategy was updated in 2009. The updated priority areas in our HR strategy are securing required personnel resources, commitment to an open leadership model, systematic rewarding, positive employer branding and clear allocation of tasks in human resources management.
Group Meetings as part of co-operation
Three Group Meetings were held in 2009. In these Group Meetings, personnel representatives were informed by company management of the operating environment in the energy sector, of the situation in the company in terms of production, projects and finances, of guidelines on procedures and operations in HR-related matters as well as of HR development issues. Group Meetings consist of 16 appointed representatives from various personnel groups. As required under the Act on Co-Operation within Undertakings, information in Teollisuuden Voima Oyj is disseminated in co-operation meetings that take place between four and five times a year.
Personnel survey led to development of operating methods
Group-level targets for development selected on the basis of the 2008 personnel survey – management, compensation, flow of information – were reviewed by working parties, who then issued propositions for measures that have for a large part already been carried out. The personnel were extensively informed of the development measures.
Special focus on HR development and competence
At the beginning of the year, a group-level survey was conducted on the current state, processes, tools and requirements of HR development. On this basis, a series of development measures were undertaken, including a review of task-specific competence profiles, training data documentation practices and career development discussion practices as well as the introduction of a recruiting system. A pilot study on well-being at work was conducted in the parent company, preparing the ground for a well-being project in 2010.
Changes in the number of personnel
The average number of personnel employed by the Group in 2009 was 1 467. The figure for personnel also includes the Powest subgroup, and therefore it is different from the number given in the financial statements. The average age of the personnel was about 45 years. During the year, 60 new permanent employees joined the Group. A total of 54 left permanent employment within the Group and 26 retired.
The personnel employed by Kokkolan Voima Oy, 16 persons, transferred from Pohjolan Voima Group to Kokkola Power Oy as from 1 November 2009. The reason for the transfer was an acquisition of increased synergy in Kokkolan Energia’s other business operations. Towards the end of the year, the co-operation negotiations for reducing the number of maintenance personnel employed by Proma-Palvelut Oy at the Nokia power plant were completed. The number of personnel had to be adjusted to new production circumstances, resulting in a reduction from 26 to 11 through different readjustment measures.
