Fostering social innovation
Fostering social innovation
Alcatel-Lucent continued to pioneer and explore a range of creative human resources programs in 2010. For example, the Entrepreneurial Bootcamp program enables any employee to transform innovative ideas into comprehensive business opportunity plans. >>>
The program’s goal is to stimulate innovation and enhance creativity across the organization by transforming new ideas into marketable products or services. Promising Bootcamp solutions are incubated within the Ventures department or absorbed into one of the company’s business groups.
The group CEO excellence award: recognizing change program is a global initiative designed to support transformation and recognize an exceptional contribution to the group's transformation effort. It is awarded once annually to an employee or team, selected by the Management Committee. The contribution must be one that can be replicated elsewhere in the Group. In addition to recognition within the Group, the winner(s) selects a charitable organization to receive a donation.
Numerous regional and local recognition programs also exist. These range from simple e-thank you cards to spot recognition, including fixed amount cash awards, for particular achievements based on supervisor's nomination. At Alcatel-Lucent Australia, for example, winners of the "Night Out" award for outstanding work receive a AuD 200 credit. Individual employees or teams selected for "Shine" awards receive a gift credit for a local merchant.
Finding the right work/life balance
At Alcatel-Lucent we are committed to helping our people find a good balance between work and personal life. In many cases, locally arranged initiatives and flexible working arrangements enable our employees to balance professional and personal responsibilities. >>>
Telecommuting
The Group's support of home-working helps contribute to a better work/life balance for employees. Home-working also improves productivity by reducing commuting time and costs and helps reduce real estate costs, operating expenses and environmental impact. Home-working policies adapted to local legislation have been implemented in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, U.K. and U.S. Telecommuting is a part of everyday life in many Alcatel-Lucent offices in Australia, New-Zealand, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, the U.K. and North America. In France, 27% of the workforce benefits from home-based telecommuting.
Services for employees
As part of its effort to create the best conditions for our employees, the Group provides services at the workplace to alleviate day-to-day constraints linked to professional activities. This translates into a multiplication of Group-organized or Groupfinanced services to employees. In the U.S. and Canada, Alcatel-Lucent provides a resource and referral service to employees through a single vendor which offered four web-based training sessions in 2010. Attracting more than 200 attendees to each session, the topics included walking for health, building a personal and professional network, parenting and relaxation techniques. In France, the Group finances and manages pre-school and daycare services for employees.
