Page 24 - Sustainability Report 2019

CHAPTER 2 | Uniqueness and talent, ingredients for success
Type of training in the Ratti Group
4%
IT - Information Technology
21%
Technical and financial expertise
11%
Soft Skills
43%
Safety
21%
Languages
Percentage by type of total hours of training at 31.12.2019
9.64%
INCREASE IN THE TOTAL HOURS OF TRAINING IN THE RATTI GROUP IN 2019 COMPARED WITH 2018
8,127
HOURS OF TRAINING CARRIED OUT IN 2019
1,398
OF TRAINING FOR MIDDLE MANAGEMENT AND EXECUTIVES
4,032
HOURS OF TRAINING FOR WHITE-COLLAR WORKERS
2,698
HOURS OF TRAINING FOR BLUE-COLLAR WORKERS
plan. The training is financed, where possible, using corporate funds such as, for example, Fondimpresa and Fondirigenti.
Creomoda and the recent acquisition La Maison des Accessoires will also adopt a similar procedure to that used by the Parent company. Managers report the training needs of their staff, sharing this with senior management. They then decide on the training plan and the provider autonomously.
Textrom personnel periodically receive (from a specialised company) training covering health and safety at work and dealing with emergencies. Ensuring the effectiveness and quality of Ratti SpA’s training policies
is the responsibility of business area heads, the manager directly involved or the trainer who delivers the course. In the event of a negative evaluation or performance, Human Resources and the managers involved will identify precise and specific corrective actions.
In Creomoda, La Maison des Accessoires and Textrom, however, monitoring activities are carried out at the end of each training session by means of comprehension tests and verification.
All internal training relating to SA80000 and health and safety is evaluated at the end of the course, in order to understand to what extent the training has been absorbed.
Cross-fertilisation between art and fabric
Following a logic of growth and corporate enrichment, the Ratti Group pays particular attention to promoting the training and development of its employees.
Projects worthy of attention include “Il senso di Colore tra tessile e arte” (The meaning of colour between textiles and art), a guided tour organised by Ratti
SpA for its creative team at the Museum of Silk in Como, during the Manlio Rho (1901-1957) exhibition, with a focus on textiles. The objective of the exhibition
is to show the public the strong link between art and fabric in which Manilo Rho believed. The artist’s works and materials demonstrate a skill in execution
and technical expertise that allowed him to master textile printing design. This only became a cutting-edge technique after the 1929 crisis. Rho’s work narrates reciprocal influences between different arts: geometry and abstraction. His pictorial works are best understood in the light of a continuous contrast between reflection and practice inherent to the construction of a textile pattern and to the forms and colours that constitute its essence.
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Overall, in 2019 the Ratti Group carried out 8,127
hours of training, an increase of 9.68% on 2018. Middle management and executives received 1,398 hours of training, while white-collar workers received 4,032 hours and blue-collar workers 2,698 hours of training. Overall the average number of hours of training increased for all categories.
With regard to training areas, 42.4% of Ratti Group
training involved safety in the workplace, 20.9% languages, 11.3% soft skills, 21.4% technical and financial competences and, finally, 4.1% IT, i.e. the management of information technology systems
In specific detail, in 2019 in Ratti SpA training was completed in forecasting expertise for the commercial function, in order to optimise the acquisition of fabrics and levels of stock in the warehouse. In addition, the company decided to proceed with the AEO course, investing in training for one employee to become professionally qualified as Head of Customs Issues.
Ratti SpA introduced a course for the heads of work teams, with the aim of spreading feedback culture. The objective was to raise awareness of the importance of managing feedback within the company, with the aim of introducing, starting from 2020, a structured performance evaluation.
Investing in the issue of sustainability, Ratti SpA organised specific training courses for the entire workforce with creative and commercial roles. Given the positive outcome of this initiative, the company then decided to further promote the culture of sustainability, widening the arena of participants.
In Tunisia 59% of training involved safety and 41% foreign languages, including a proposed Italian course aimed
at improving communication and integration with the Parent company. A team from La Maison des Accessoires benefited from a first aid course, fire prevention training carried out by the civil protection unit, and a training session in coaching. In Textrom training concerned the topic of safety in the workplace.