Objective 2
Focus on the Development of Employee Competences / Learning Organisation
One of the PGNiG Groups’ priorities is the creation of a friendly, unique workplace for existing and future employees. Therefore, the Group cooperates with numerous schools and higher education institutions in the regions where its companies operate. We advise their youth on the trades and professions important to the Group’s business, invite them to visit our facilities to watch our work, and offer them work, internships and trainee placements. With a view to educating a highly qualified workforce, we support selected vocational education classes and organise numerous training sessions for our employees. We also support employees’ development with a work assessment system.
Initiatives/Best Practices
We run an employee assessment system in order to improve work efficiency and foster employee development
Educational support for the Group’s future employees
PGNiG, supported by the PGNiG SA Ignacy Łukasiewicz Foundation, invests in the development not only of its existing, but also its future employees, who are now attending secondary schools or higher education institutions. In 2011, the third edition of the ‘Student Scholarship’ was carried out. This is a scheme dedicated to university students studying subjects connected with the oil and gas industry. The ten best appointed students were granted scholarships intended for buying learning aids or covering the costs of participation in conferences. 2011 also saw the second edition of the ‘Pupil Scholarship’ programme addressed to pupils attending vocational schools educating specialists working in the oil and gas industry. Under this programme, scholarships are granted to the best fifteen pupils. In both programmes, heads/rectors appoint the candidates, while the Foundation’s Board selects the grantees upon the Foundation Council’s recommendation.
The PGNiG Zielona Góra Branch, Poszukiwania Naftowe Diament Sp. z o.o. and State Higher Vocational School of Sulechów signed an agreement on supporting students who are studying Power Engineering, in a Power Engineering for Oil and Gas Mining specialisation. The Group entities involved delegate their employees to give lectures and tuition on such subjects as geology, introduction to reservoir engineering and production of hydrocarbons, as well as offer work placements.
In September 2007, a well mining technician class was opened under the auspices of the four-year secondary vocational day school of Zespół Szkół Elektronicznych i Samochodowych (Combined Electronics and Automotive School) of Zielona Góra, and the two-year post-secondary extramural school of the Centrum Kształcenia Ustawicznego i Praktycznego (Continuous and Practical Education Centre) of Zielona Góra. Given the Branch’s development plans, ongoing exploratory work and the launch of new organisational units, the also decided to begin cooperation with Zespół Szkół Ponadgimnazjalnych (Combined Post-Secondary School) of Grodzisk Wielkopolski. The first ever class of a four-year secondary vocational day school was opened in 2009.