Continuing its growth and globalisation strategy, the Société Générale group gathers nearly 151,000 employees, working in 82 countries. In an ever-more diversified environment, and a broadened spectrum of activities, business lines, cultures and profiles, Human Resource management supports the Group’s policy lines:
- Accompany its development and the diversification of its business-lines,
- Reinforce the Group's appeal, in order to attract new talents and retain current employees,
- Assess and valorise the diversity and dynamism of employees,
- Promote responsibility and performance,
- Continue to put the stress on personnel management and development, by favouring accompaniment actions and integrating the international aspect,
- Favour cohesion via the sharing of common values.
- Valorise diversity
- Recruiting talents
- Developing each employee’s full potential
- Ensure the quality of the social framework
Growing together
Our employees’ professional development is a priority and we
have strong policies of career management, mobility and training in
the whole Group, to be adapted to the needs of our different
business lines and of our employees.
In a complex, diversified field of action, we aim at offering our employees a coherent, varied, exciting professional path, which must lead to more knowledge and more experience, from which both the employees and the firm can benefit.
Developing their skills via training programmes and internal mobility and offering a vast range of possible careers are some of the ways the Group accompanies our personnel in their careers, and keep their motivation up. For instance, in 2007, more than 100 000 employees of the Group took part in a training programme.
In France, Société Générale also promotes internal evolution programmes as well as trainings resulting on a degree, allowing the employees to access a quicker professional evolution.
Competitive salaries
To accompany its growth momentum, the Group’s ambition is to
attract, motivate and retain its employees, notably by providing
them with competitive overall salaries (fixed salaries, bonuses,
social advantages) based on common principles, remunerating both
individual and collective performances. Given the Group’s
complexity, the diversity of the countries in which it is present
and its business lines, wage structures are adapted to the local
regulatory, cultural and competitive environment.
Associating every employee with the Group’s
performance and results
Since 1987, Société Générale has been actively
encouraging employees to become shareholders in the Group, so that
as many as possible may share in its profits. Since 2003, this
operation, which was at first reserved to Société
Générale and Crédit du Nord employees, was gradually
extended to 224 Société Générale subsidiaries,
located in 57 countries. In late 2007, over 87,000 current and
former employees throughout the world are Société
Générale shareholders, holding 7,2% of the Group’s
capital between them.
Employees working in France also benefit from profit sharing and
shareholding advantages. According to the terms of the current
Société Générale profit-sharing agreement,
Société Générale France employees can invest
the sums paid to them in a company savings plan in order to build
up their savings in securities under advantageous financial and
fiscal conditions.
