Egger Romania, a wood industry producer, was rewarded with the “Best Employer” award for the category “between 250 and 1,000 employees”. For companies with less than 250 employees, the best employer title went to seeds and pesticides producer Monsanto, show the results of the study, which was conducted over a nine-month period.
The study analyzes the employees’ “engagement” level by looking at three aspects: “say” (employees who speak well of the company where they work with colleagues, friends and clients), “stay” (employees who want to stay in the company for a long time and are not thinking about leaving it) and “strive” (employees who make an extra effort to improve the company’s results).
The results of this year’s Aon Hewitt study show that the average engagement level of Romanian companies is 57%, 2% more than that of companies in central and eastern Europe that participated in the study.
“In Romania 65% of respondents speak well of the company for which they work, 57% want to continue to work for the company for a longer period of time and 55% make extra efforts to help improve the company’s results,” says Virginia Pauna, senior consultant for employee benefits within Aon Romania. While in Romania employees’ engagement level is 57%, the average engagement among European countries surveyed is lower, of 55%, the Aon Hewitt research also shows. The provisional average engagement for the region is calculated based on results from the nine countries where the study has been completed (Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine and Hungary), with results from Turkey to be published at the beginning of next year.
Companies designated as “Best Employers” in 2013 in Romania also include pharmaceutical company Roche Romania and 3M Romania, which sells and markets 3M products (in the category of companies with up to 250 employees, as well as computer maker Dell International Services and the services center of cigarettes producer BAT – British American Shared Services Europe (which received awards as best employers in the category of companies with 250 to 1,000 employees).
The study shows the level of “engagement” of employees working for companies in Romania’s ‘Best Employers’ ranking is 71%, lower than that of employees in the companies rated as ‘Best Employers’ in the region, which was 80%.
(English version by Daniela Stoican)