Mentoring

Starting out from a gender-based approach, the bank established the BA-CA mentoring programme as one of its staff development and diversity measures, some years ago. Around 40 pairs of employees took part in the 2006 programme, the fourth of its kind, organised by Human Resources. The programme’s objective is to support the mentees in recognising and using their potential, helping them to deliver an excellent performance and making them fit for new tasks. The mentors, experienced senior managers of the bank, support the mentees in developing their personalities, getting them acquainted with new viewpoints and introducing them to existing networks. In previous programmes, the mentoring pairs almost always differed in terms of age, hierarchical level, function and the organisational units in which they worked.

In order to maintain the high level of commitment, performance and health of all our staff members, we consider it important to pay due regard to the various circumstances in the lives of our employees and to create general conditions in which our employees can achieve a good life-work balance as well as remaining healthy. For this reason BA-CA offers various part-time work models, flexible working time, company kindergartens with a capacity for about 200 children, support during maternity leave, seminars for people returning to work after child leave as well as health centres.