Personnel policy
All Human Resources activities are based on Axpo's personnel policy. It contains clear principles about cooperation, development and social policy.
Our personnel policy reflects the managerial principles and demonstrate our clear approach to ethical and social issues. As an employee, you will know what to expect.
Our mission
The Axpo Group's activities as a Swiss energy provider stretch right along the value chain, from electricity production, transmission and distribution through to trading and sales. Our pledge to deliver optimum reliability and safety obliges us to act with a sense of social responsibility and with clear ethical principles.
Our duties are of great social relevance. Every single employee contributes to Axpo's success through his or her own work.
Our qualities
- We are trustworthy
- We provide an assurance of safe and sustainable energy supply and will strike the right balance between economic, ecological and social demands. We satisfy our customer's demands for optimum standards of quality and safety.
- We are likeable
- In the course of our day-to-day work, we invest our resources, skills and experience in the service of the company and consciously assume responsibility for maintaining and expanding our customers' prosperity and quality of life.
- We are innovative
- We play a pioneering role in the further development of our products and services which always keep pace with the state of the art in science and technology.
Our basic principals
- Mutual appreciation, respect and trust form the basis for exceptional results which we remunerate fairly, at the going market rates.
- Our employees know what contribution they make to our success, which helps them to realize the purpose of their work.
- Safety, reliability and ongoing improvement are a matter of course for us.
- We offer our employees a working environment in which they can invest and expand their skills comprehensively. Human Resources helps to develop skills within the scope of our corporate strategy.
- Our staff take charge of their own professional and personal development, ably supported by their line managers and by the HR management. Similar value is accorded to technical and managerial career paths.
- Our managers lead by example. They lead with targets, delegate according to level, provide scope of maneuver, give praise where it is due and offer fair criticism.
- We provide sincere and constructive feedback.
- We ensure that our employees enjoy equal opportunities, irrespective of gender, age, religion and background.