Ziraat Participation’s human resources policy aims to bring out the potentials of its employees, to increase their performances and to sustain their career developments.
In line with its targets of sustainable development and growth, Ziraat Participation continued to provide effective services to its customers, with 1,904 employees and 155 local branches in 55 provinces and 1 branch abroad as of the end of 2022.
Recruitment, performance management, promotion and fringe benefits
Ziraat Participation continued to support employment by recruiting 448 people in 2022. During the year, 168 candidates were employed after a process of written test and interviews. Thus, the Bank continued to support employment of young and new graduates.
In order to raise human resources for interest-free finance sector, Ziraat Participation started an employment project for those who graduated from Departments of Islamic Economics and Finance of universities with degrees.
Having adopted the principle of offering equal opportunities to its employees, Ziraat Participation has prioritized raising the managers of the future from its in-house human resources. Accordingly, those who completed the Manager Candidate Program successfully were promoted to managerial positions in 2022 as well.
By using the performance management system effectively, job position promotions continued in 2022.
In line with its targets of sustainable development and growth, Ziraat Participation continued to provide effective services to its customers, with 1,904 employees and 155 local branches in 55 provinces and 1 branch abroad as of the end of 2022.
Ziraat Participation knows that human resources is has the greatest stake in achieving sustainable growth and effective performance and accordingly, the Bank conducts promotion exams every year for its employees to move forward in their careers in a fair environment. In this context, the Bank continued its collaboration with İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim University in 2022 and held an online professional-title promotion examination. Employees that were successful in the exam were promoted to a higher position.
With a proper and fair remuneration policy, Ziraat Participation not only increases employee motivation and their corporate loyalty, but also encourages sustainable success which complies with corporate strategy. Salary research is performed by collecting salary data from the sector and observing the internal balance within the Bank, at the same time sustaining its competitive position.
Remuneration structure includes the salary which is based on job position and employees’ seniority as well as job place and transportation benefits, performance premium which is variable and other fringe benefits. Furthermore, there are individual pension system with company contribution, life insurance, maternity benefit, family support benefits (family success, special education support, etc.).
Occupational development and OHS trainings
Activities and operations within the scope of Occupational Health and Safety continued in 2022.
Ziraat Participation monitors and manages its employees’ occupational developments in a planned way. In this context, classroom, online and video trainings were designed and average of 47.5 hours/man trainings were delivered in 2022.
Employees who were hired through a recruitment exam, Participation Banking School was organized to get them prepared for their jobs through face-to-face trainings.
Leadership Development trainings were conducted for new branch managers.
Mentor-mentee project was implemented for the Bank’s senior management to convey their experiences.
Seminars were held at universities / high schools in different cities with the purpose of promoting Ziraat Participation and participation banking, collaborating with Presidential Finance Office.
Considering the circumstances of today when international communication is inevitable and its importance increases every day, support for training was provided for employees to learn English and Arabic languages with the objective of increasing the quality of foreign language of its human resources.
“Ziraat Participation is Reading Books Project” was implemented and a total of 1,135 books were sent to 584 project members.
