The Swiss Arbeitgeber Award 2016

The Swiss Arbeitgeber Award 2016
A BENCHMARKING INITIATIVE BASED ON THE
LARGEST AND MOST COMPREHENSIVE EMPLOYEE
SURVEY IN SWITZERLAND
DESIGNED AND MANAGED BY ICOMMIT
SUPPORTED BY THE SWISS EMPLOYERS’ FEDERATION (SCHWEIZERISCHER
ARBEITGEBERVERBAND), HR SWISS AND THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE BILANZ
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The Swiss Arbeitgeber Award
A CHANCE TO COMPARE YOURSELF WITH THE BEST AND
INCREASE YOUR ATTRACTIVENESS TO EMPLOYEES
What’s involved?
The Swiss Arbeitgeber Award provides organisations in Switzerland and Liechtenstein
with a unique chance to compare themselves as employers with the countries’ top firms.
The employee survey underlying the Award serves as the basis for a comparison with
other companies and reveals opportunities for internal optimisation. This is because
your employees represent the best source of information for a detailed evaluation and
assessment of your organisational conditions.
Of the businesses taking part, the best employers in four categories based on the size of
their workforce (50–99, 100–249, 250–999 and 1000 + employees) will receive the label
“Swiss Arbeitgeber Award”.
The survey, evaluation and benchmark comparison are carried out by icommit, one of
Switzerland’s leading providers of employee surveys. A sign of the broad support enjoyed
by the Swiss Arbeitgeber Award is the fact that it is supported by the Swiss Employers’
Federation (Schweizerischer Arbeitgeberverband), HR Swiss and the business magazine Bilanz.
Evaluation criteria for the Swiss Arbeitgeber Award
Organisational conditions
Personal attitudes
STRUCTURE
Job content
Work and leisure
Structures and procedures
Workplace
CULTURE
MANAGEMENT
Collaboration within the company
Dealing with changes
Customer orientation
Company strategy
Integration of employees
COMMITMENT
Immediate superior
Executive management
APPEAL OF THE EMPLOYER
INCENTIVES
Employee promotion
Goal agreement
Remuneration
SATISFACTION
RESIGNATION
EMPLOYER RECOMMENDATION
TRANSFER
Knowledge management
OF KNOWLEDGETeam
Photo captions (left to right): 1 Mascha Santschi (Moderation) 2 1st prize 100–249 employees: Wäscherei Bodensee AG
3 1st prize 250–999 employees: Soudronic AG 4 Presentation of Award by Urs Burgunder (President, HR Swiss)
5 Award ceremony 6 1st prize 50–99 employees: Hunziker Partner AG 7 1st prize 1000 + employees: CSL Behring AG
8 The icommit GmbH team 9 Presentation of Award by Roland A. Müller (Director, Swiss Employers’ Association)
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The benefits
2016
Benchmarking can
help you find the
right starting points for
improvement. The label will
support your personnel marketing.
Survey design
Switzerland’s largest survey
of employees gives staff the
chance to evaluate their employers.
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You can gain a whole host of benefits from taking part in the Swiss Arbeitgeber Award:
The employee survey allows your workforce to give a comprehensive evaluation of your
organisational conditions and captures their perspective on your business (see the diagram
below left). This provides you with a solid basis of information that you can use to develop
your organisation further in cooperation with your employees.
Thanks to the benchmarking process, you receive concrete details of how your organisation is
positioned in relation to other businesses. You can publicise your organisation’s strengths in
your corporate communications and use them for your employer branding. Any weaknesses,
relative to other employers, can be tackled and improved in a targeted way. If you are ranked
one of the top employers in the Swiss Arbeitgeber Award, you can use that designation in your
HR marketing activities.
A proven evaluation tool
An easy-to-understand questionnaire gives your employees the chance to comprehensively
evaluate your organisational conditions and to record their perspectives on your business.
In addition, the statistical analysis identifies the importance attached to specific aspects
relevant for employee satisfaction and commitment.
In contrast to other surveys,
what counts is the verdict of the
employees themselves rather than
an assessment by an external
judging panel.
The questionnaire is continually updated to take account of the latest developments in the
world of work – while still providing data comparable with previous years’ results. The survey
therefore takes accounts of the EFQM business excellence framework as well as academic
research on the qualities found in “high-performance” organisations.
If you already conduct employee surveys, you can transfer the findings into the evaluation for
the Swiss Arbeitgeber Award and thereby benefit from a comparison with other leading Swiss
organisations.
Customised questionnaires and enhanced evaluation options
The standard questionnaire can be supplemented with questions specific to your organisation.
In addition, the evaluation model is designed to cover business divisions, departments and
teams.
A straightforward employee survey procedure
The employee survey is conducted with the involvement of your HR department. A range of
different documents provides assistance with the process. Your employees can complete the
survey both online and on paper in any of ten different languages. The survey will involve
either your entire workforce or a randomly selected sample.
Meaningful results
Every company receives a detailed results report showing how employees see and rate
their current working situation. The informative report presents strengths and weaknesses
in comparison with those of other organisations and in comparison with those found in
your specific sector of activity and company size. The report also indicates those aspects
of your organisational conditions that have an especially important influence on employee
satisfaction and commitment levels.
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Who carries
out the survey?
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The survey is conducted by icommit
The Swiss Arbeitgeber Award is managed by icommit’s research and consulting team
(www.icommit.ch). icommit ensures that the questionnaire is continually refined and
handles both the evaluation and preparation of the results. In addition, icommit will be
glad to support you, for example, with the presentation on the results for your management
team or employees or with workshops in which your managers can analyse and consider
the findings.
Confidentiality guaranteed
icommit conducts the employee surveys in accordance with the guidelines of ESOMAR (The
World Association for Social, Opinion and Market Research). This ensures that the data are
handled in conditions of absolute confidentiality.
Testimonials from
the winners 2015
1st prize (1000 + employees): CSL Behring AG, Bern
Uwe E. Jocham, General Manager
“Winning the Swiss Arbeitgeber Award shows that our employees place a great deal of trust in the
company and in its management and that they are actively committed to their work and to the
welfare of our patients. This appreciation and recognition fills me with great pride. It underlines the
significance of the corporate values that we pursue at CSL Behring on a daily basis.”
1st prize (250–999 employees): Soudronic AG, Bergdietikon
Jakob Guyer, CEO
“We are proud of our 1st place in the Swiss Arbeitgeber Award 2015. Soudronic has been the global
market and technology leader in its niche for decades and our profitability is accordingly good.
This is only possible thanks to satisfied customers. And this in turn requires motivated and
satisfied employees in all disciplines. We can truly say that attaining our business goals over the
long term is not possible unless we always attach the greatest significance to moral and ethical
principles. This employee survey is confirmation of this.”
1st prize (100–249 employees): Wäscherei Bodensee AG, Scherzingen
Marco Wäckerlig, Managing Director
“Our entire company is delighted at and extremely proud of this 1st place in the Swiss Arbeitgeber
Award. It shows that we are all on the right path. It is very important to have everyone on board
and it is obvious that we have succeeded in establishing this team spirit across all levels of the hierarchy of the business. This prize is important and valuable not just for Wäscherei Bodensee AG but
for the whole industry because it shows that laundries can also be attractive employers.”
1st prize (50–99 employees): Hunziker Partner AG, Technik im Gebäude, Winterthur
Christian Hunziker, CEO / VR President
“The Swiss Arbeitgeber Award is the latest in a series of awards we have received. We have repeatedly achieved top places in all the relevant areas of corporate leadership for fifteen years. The
Swiss Arbeitgeber Award rounds things off tremendously. We weren’t voted for by a jury. It was our
employees who assessed our organisation as outstanding in comparison with the other businesses
taking part. Sustainable management is worth it in all areas. And we are proud of that.”
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The Swiss Arbeitgeber Award 2016
BECOME ONE OF THE MOST ATTRACTIVE EMPLOYERS IN
SWITZERLAND
When you take part in the Swiss Arbeitgeber Award you’re bound to be a winner. You
might even win a place as one of the country’s top employers. But even if you don’t, you’ll
gain detailed insights about how your organisation is perceived as an employer.
Key dates for your diary
Eligibility
Costs
Swiss Arbeitgeber Award
Poststrasse 35
8700 Küsnacht
Telephone: +41 43 266 88 77
welcome@swissarbeitgeberaward.ch
Final date for applications: 13 May 2016
Duration of survey: a 3-4 week period of your choice between 2 May and 24 June 2016;
earlier, if required.
Final date on which survey responses can be included: 1 July 2016
Delivery of reports on the survey results: August 2016
The Swiss Arbeitgeber Award Ceremony:
6 September 2016 during the HR Swiss Congress in Bern
Organisations with 50 employees or more, divided into four categories based on size
Prizes are awarded in four categories based on the number of employees:
50–99, 100–249, 250–999 and 1000+.
The Swiss Arbeitgeber Award is open to organisations employing
at least 50 people in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
You can register or obtain further information by visiting www.swissarbeitgeberaward.ch
or by calling 043 266 88 77.
The costs for the employee survey are dependent on the size of the organisation and the level
of detail applied to the analysis and reporting. We are happy to provide you with a quotation
based on your specific requirements.
www.swissarbeitgeberaward.ch
The top employers 2015
THE SWISS ARBEITGEBER AWARD 2015 GOES TO...
The award ceremony
The award ceremony for the Swiss Arbeitgeber Award 2015 took place on 17 September at the
Zurich Marriott Hotel. A total of 118 organisations took part in the competition. Prizes were
awarded to the best employers in four categories based on the size of their workforce (50–99,
100–249, 250–999 and 1000 + employees). The presentation of the most important findings of the
employee survey was followed by the announcement of the winners and ceremonial prize giving.
During the dinner that followed, the representatives from the companies present used the
opportunity to exchange ideas and celebrate their outstanding results
You can find photographs of the awards ceremony and short clips of the winners on our website at
www.swissarbeitgeberaward.ch.
Ranking 2015
Category: 1000+ employees
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CSL Behring AG
Luzerner Kantonalbank AG
Debrunner Koenig Gruppe
Category: 250–999 employees
1 Soudronic AG
2 CARDIOCENTRO TICINO
3 P. Sonderegger AG
4 zeka zentren körperbehinderte aargau
5 Electrolux AG
6 Pistor AG
7 Kambly SA, Spécialités de Biscuits Suisses
8 Schweizer Reisekasse (Reka) Genossenschaft
9BancaStato
10 Heime Kriens
11 Centre professionnel du Littoral neuchâtelois (CPLN)
12 Eberhard Unternehmungen
13 VEBO Genossenschaft
14 OBT AG
15 IVF HARTMANN AG
Category 100–249 employees
1 Wäscherei Bodensee AG
2 Ergon Informatik AG
3 Hotel Hof Weissbad AG
4 Seniorenzentrum Naters
5 Halter AG
6 Energie Thun AG
7 Zermatt Bergbahnen AG
8ARGO Stiftung für Integration von Menschen
mit Behinderung in Graubünden
9 Gossweiler Ingenieure AG
10 HERZOG Küchen AG
11 Ernst Meier AG
12 3-Plan Haustechnik AG
13 RIGI BAHNEN AG
14 Liechtensteinische Kraftwerke
15 Accarda AG
Category: 50–99 employees
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Hunziker Partner AG
inova:solutions AG
Olma Messen St.Gallen
BE Netz AG
Dold AG
Interhome AG
IB Langenthal AG
EKT AG
KVT-Fastening AG
Pro Senectute Schweiz