Performance management & management development

After a first rollout for the top 280 in mid 2008, the People and Career Tool (P@CT) was implemented globally during the first months of 2009, in 29 countries. P@CT was implemented to improve performance management by facilitating the processes for performance planning, mid-year reviews and end-of-year reviews and to make them transparent and consistent across Nutreco businesses. Beyond this, P@CT is facilitating in the management development reviews.

In October 2009 Nutreco embarked on the management development process via P@CT. The process combines information on performance management with that on management development, including skills, training, mobility and succession planning. The review began in the operating companies and will be consolidated first in the business units and subsequently at Executive Board level. It will highlight those employees with the greatest potential to contribute to the further development of Nutreco and identify training priorities in Nutreco.

The 2009 end-of-year reviews and performance planning for 2010 using P@CT started on 1 December with the aim of completing both cycles before the end of March 2010. This is the first time a substantial number of Nutreco employees have undergone these reviews and planning processes in such a consistent and transparent manner. In the reviews, managers discuss the results with their employees and each employee is rated against the agreed objectives and the required competency levels.

P@CT is now available in seven languages including Chinese and Russian. By 31 December 2009 there were 2950 employees with access to the People & Career Tool (P@CT). In 2010 the number of employees with access to P@CT will increase in accordance with recommendations from Nutreco managers.

Nutreco HR in Spain has prepared a programme of activities for the integration of the recently acquired Cargill animal nutrition businesses in Spain and Portugal. This includes competence mapping of teams in both Nanta and Cargill to form a new business from the best of each. The services of a specialist consultancy have been retained for this programme.

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