269 employees joined Ziraat Participation family (in 2017).
4,394 day/man total time of training offered to 694 employees
In line with its strategies and targets, Ziraat Participation’s practices in the field of human resources are focused on creating a happy and productive work environment and contributing to the development of employees’ performance by guiding employees in partnership with their units and branches.
In line with its sustainable development and growth targets, Ziraat Participation continued to serve its customers with 890 employees and 63 branches as of the end of 2017.
Ziraat Participation continued its support to employment by recruiting 269 employees in 2017 through competency-based and transparent recruitment processes.
Adopting modern human resources applications, Ziraat Participation’s principle is to offer equal opportunities to its employees and train the future leaders primarily from the internal human resources of the bank.
In 2017, with the cooperation of Ziraat Participation and Sabahattin Zaim University, a promotion examination was held in the most professional manner and successful personnel were promoted to a title one level superior.
70 new assistant specialists
In order to strengthen its young dynamic personnel structure and to bring in young professionals to the banking industry, two country-wide assistant specialist exams were organized with the support of Anadolu University. 10,135 people have attended the exam. Among those attended, 70 candidates were hired upon completion of their recruitment process.
As an employer who cares about its employees’ health and makes arrangements on this area, Ziraat Participation organized health screening of employees working in the Headquarters.
Under the Directive for Occupational Health and Safety and Emergency Situations, with the support of Health and Safety professionals, emergency drills were performed at Headquarters and Üsküdar Additional Building.
Managers of 13 branches were appointed from internal resources.
With the awareness of the major role of human resource in achieving sustainable performance in growth strategy, Ziraat Participation adopts the principle of retaining its employees by investing in them and developing them to get prepared for the managerial levels. In this context, 13 branch managers of 19 branches opened in 2017 were appointed from the Bank’s internal resources.
Ziraat Participation shifted to a new modern organization structure which makes effective decision making easier, allows for a flexible structure and supports growth.
Dynamic Query program has been implemented which enables instant access to bank organization charts, correct interpretation of these charts, speeding up the decision making mechanisms and adding small reports to the charts downloaded from the system.
Ziraat Participation cares about planning and managing its employees’ professional development. In order to achieve this and advance their academic careers as well as their personal development, the Bank has cooperated with distinguished universities.
In-house and outside trainings have continued in 2017 for employees’ development, particularly certificate programs on Islamic Economy and Participation Banking which help employees properly understand participation banking. Ziraat Participation has organized 152 different training programs and 694 employees attended these trainings where a total of 4,394 day/man has been achieved.
