Consultants and employees
Our consultants and employees represent our company’s greatest asset. Their commitment and performance are the foundations of our success. Securing workplaces has therefore been the top priority for MLP’s management throughout the current efficiency programme.
The magazine “Handelsblatt Junge Karriere” and the market research company CRI once again honoured MLP as Germany’s “top employer” in the financial year 2009. Key success factors in this regard are the development opportunities that we offer our employees, including our comprehensive range of training courses.
In 2009, MLP continued its participation programme for consultants and employees, while also further reinforcing its profile as a family and child-friendly company. Indeed, the offers available within the scope of MLP’s family programme include contributions towards accommodation and care costs for children not yet of school age, holiday camps for school children and free-of-charge consulting covering all questions of both childcare and care for the aged. Another important element is occupational pension provision and personal healthcare provision for our employees, who we both encourage and support with a wide range of measures (please refer to the personnel and social report for details).
Within the scope of the project “Values and Leadership”, MLP brought together all consultants and employees to discuss the company’s key values in 2009. Based on this, we then revised MLP’s promise and laid down our management principles in greater detail. In the course of doing this, a system of “180 degree feedback on management performance” was also introduced in the last financial year. This involves all employees assessing the performance of their respective superiors.
The MLP Corporate University also assumes a key role in the business model, as it is one of the few corporate academies in Europe to have been accredited by the European Foundation for Management Development. In the last financial year, approximately 50,000 training days were held – an important basis for the continuous further development of our consultants and employees.
In addition to this, MLP continued its commitment in the field of vocational training with more than 100 trainees. Alongside the legally stipulated contents, MLP offers its trainees additional seminars on self-development from the very start.