Developing Leadership and Talent
SAP recognizes that achieving our strategic vision is largely
dependent upon leaders around the world having the
competencies necessary to propel the organization to
further levels of success. Launched globally in October,
the Management Excellence Evaluation (ME²) is a multirater
assessment process that provides feedback for managers
from many sources – self, dotted-line/direct reports,
primary and secondary managers, and colleagues – to
measure performance on competencies essential to being
an outstanding manager at SAP. The ME² provides important
information to the managers about the strengths and
areas of development within our management population –
information that can be used to further drive management and leadership excellence at SAP. For all of our employees,
SAP launched the Career Success Center (CSC)
in June, a global resource that allows our employees to
plan, manage, and develop their careers in line with the
needs of the business. To date, 37,000 unique users have
accessed the center (92% of SAP employees), and we
continue to enhance the solution with feedback directly
from its users.
Open and Entrepreneurial Environment
From the company’s founding, we have set out to create the kind of corporate culture that gives employees a great amount of personal freedom. At SAP, our global values dictate that each employee has the opportunity to play an optimal part in our processes. We promote an entrepreneurial environment that encourages individual initiative. For many, these attributes imbue SAP with both the freedom of a start-up company and the security of a global industry leader. Our employees are encouraged to “drive their own careers”. Individual objectives are agreed upon between managers and employees at the start of the year, which are followed up by feedback talks between managers and employees towards the middle of the year. The end-of-year talks provide an opportunity to determine and discuss the extent to which the objectives have been achieved. We give our employees a great deal of personal responsibility, and deem trust both in, and between, our employees and managers to be extremely important.
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