DORMA wins award as top employer
Wolfgang Clement presents the Ennepetal-based company with the Top Job accolade for its outstanding HR management
 Ennepetal – DORMA GmbH + Co. KG is one of the 100 best employers among Germany's
small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) according to this year's nationwide
Top Job corporate benchmarking competition. This accolade has been awarded
for the past five years to mid-sized firms for their outstanding HR management policies.
Wolfgang Clement, Germany's former economics minister, will be presenting
DORMA with the prestigious Top Job award this Friday evening at an official ceremony
in Duisburg-Nord Industrial Landscape Park.
On this occasion the mentor of the Top Job initiative will be recognising DORMA's
achievements in the categories Leadership & Vision, Motivation & Dynamism, Culture
& Communication, Staff Development & Prospects, Family & Social Awareness,
and Internal Entrepreneurship. First, however, the company - which specialises in
door systems - had to undergo a thorough two-stage process devised by the Institute
for Leadership and Human Resource Management at the University of St. Gallen,
Switzerland. In the first stage, the HR experts working under Professor Heike Bruch,
the Institute's director, captured the company's key performance indicators in a
questionnaire. The second stage was to conduct a detailed online staff survey.
DORMA was only too willing to take part in this poll, as Michael Ecker, its head of
HR, explained at the outset: “We know that we are doing a good job for our employees.
Companies that don't attach much importance to HR management don't even
take part in this kind of survey.” He was delighted to see his firm's good ranking
despite the strong competition: “We are now officially one of the best employers in
Germany's SME sector. This will make us even more attractive to highly qualified
workers in future.” A total of over 150 companies entered the Top Job competition
this year.
In their appraisal, the experts from the Institute for Leadership and Human Resource
Management highlighted DORMA's success in the field of continuing professional
development. Consequently, the company scored particularly highly in the category
Staff Development & Prospects. Its door systems and solutions are well-known
around the world - a success story that the company attributes to its ambitious employees.
DORMA therefore pursues a policy of systematic staff development that is tailored to the needs of each individual employee, while a specially designed programme
prepares young executive talent for future managerial responsibilities. More
important than any of these measures, however, is the ethos of partnership and mutual
respect that informs how employees treat others at all times. During staff performance
reviews, for example, line managers are assessed by their staff.
In addition to the comprehensive benchmarking report, the prestigious award and a
highly enjoyable evening in the company of Wolfgang Clement, all 100 companies
are featured in a book published by Bruch and Clement entitled Top Job – Germany's
100 best SME employers. They are also presented in detail on the website at
www.topjob.de and supported with professional public relations work. Furthermore,
as a Top Job award-winner they automatically belong to the network of top
employers and benefit from meetings and contacts with the other 99 finalists. The
application process for the next Top Job competition commences on 1 February
2007.
Mentor and partners
The project's mentor is Wolfgang Clement, Germany's former economics minister. Its partners are AGP – Arbeitsgemeinschaft Partnerschaft in der Wirtschaft e. V.; Akademie für
Führungskräfte der Wirtschaft GmbH; HRblue AG; Gallup Deutschland GmbH; Kienbaum
Consultants International GmbH; Klaus Lurse Personal + Management AG; Scheelen AG;
Schindlerhof Klaus Kobjoll GmbH; SKP – Dr. Stoebe, Kern & Partner HR Managementberatung
AG; and the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.
Project management
The Top Job project is managed by Dr Heike Bruch, professor and director of the Institute for Leadership and Human Resource Management at the University of St. Gallen. She has
earned a prominent reputation in the fields of change management and leadership in particular.
Organiser: compamedia GmbH
compamedia specialises in organising benchmarking projects and creating networks for
small and medium-sized enterprises. It concentrates on promoting its projects in the media, leaving technical implementation to its specialist partners. In addition to the Top Job employer- benchmarking competition, compamedia coordinates two other prestigious projects that highlight the achievements of Germany's SME sector: the Top 100 innovation project under the mentorship of Lothar Späth, and Ethics in Business with Ulrich Wickert as patron.
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Heads of DORMA HR Management Michael Ecker (right) and Thomas Höll (left) joining Top Job mentor Wolfgang Clement
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