Employees
Castellum’s objective is to offer an attractive workplace, with possibilities for personal development, providing good conditions for skilled and committed employees. The employees are for instance offered competence development, exchange of experience and work tasks with high degree of freedom, allowing the employees to mature and to develop within their responsibility areas.
In order to develop the Castellum group, the employees’ attitudes are regularly measured. Satisfied employees lead to satisfied customers, a prerequisite for achieving Castellum’s objectives.
Attractive workplace
To be an attractive employer with skilled and dedicated employees Castellum is working with both skills and a motivating work situation that creates commitment and job satisfaction.
The flat organization means that each employee has well defined areas of responsibility with high level of freedom, leading to professional as well as personal development. Employee evaluations are performed yearly with all employees and is an important tool for following up and setting objectives, as well as identifying the need for competence development.
Castellum works with preventive health care and offers good corporate health services and beneficial health insurance. A bonus sharing program is applied, providing each employee with an opportunity to obtain a part of their respective company’s improvement in the result.
Once a year all employees in the Castellum group meet in order to share experiences and strengthen the group spirit.
Education and sharing experiences
Within Castellum, both internal and external education and training programs are provided. In addition to group-wide development individual competence development takes place.
To create conditions for sharing of experiences between the companies, projects are run with participants from every company, covering topics such as valuation and marketing issues. Apart from the projects there are fixed groups, which regularly discuss issues within specific areas, such as market, finance, IT, environment and personnel.
At the year endof 2011, the group had 239 employees, of which 38% were women. Employee turnover during the year has been 13% and absence due to sickness 2%.
Satisfied employees
The employees’ view on Castellum is measured regularly in a Satisfied Employees Index showing their attitudes towards their own working situation, the company and its management. The latest survey carried out 2010 continues to show a very high index, 87 on a scale of 100. The response rate was 100%, demonstrating deep commitment.
