Workforce

Decentralized organization, jointly lived company culture

The employees of NORMA Group make a significant contribution to the success of the Group. For this reason, personnel management and development play an important role.

NORMA Group’s personnel management is organized on a decentralized basis. This reflects the international nature of the Company. The decentralized organization allows the individual sites to adapt flexibly to local conditions at any time and to contribute their specifications in a targeted manner, particularly with regard to regional expertise in human resources development and recruiting. One of the main tasks of human resources management is to ensure the availability of specialist and managerial staff on an ongoing basis. The goal here is also to recruit as many specialized employees that the Company needs as possible from our own junior staff and thus to become less dependent on the external labor market. The targeted training and development of its own workforce is therefore an integral part of NORMA Group’s human resources strategy.

To promote a uniform company culture, NORMA Group has formulated central guiding principles and standardized company values that reflect the fundamental convictions of the Company. These guiding principles are communicated and lived at all sites.

Development of the workforce figures

As of December 31, 2023, NORMA Group employed 8,005 people across the Group (core workforce including temporary workers). Compared to the previous year’s reporting date (December 31, 2022: 8,707), ), the number of employees fell by 8.1 %. 5,994 employees were attributable to the core workforce (Dec 31, 2022: 6,175). The number of temporary employees at the end of December 2023 was 2,011(Dec 31, 2022: 2,532) This results in a share of temporary workers in the total workforce of around 25% (previous year: around 29%).

The total number of employees (core workforce and temporary workers) in the current reporting year is made up of 4,444 direct (2022: 4,985) and 1,396 indirect employees (2022: 1,524) and 2,165 salary recipients (2022: 2,198). While direct employees are people involved in the manufacturing process, indirect employees are people from production-related areas, such as the quality department. The group of salaried employees is primarily assigned to administrative functions.

Further information on EMPLOYEE SATISFACTION, OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY, TRAINING AND EDUCATION and DIVERSITY AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES can be found in the chapter CR REPORT.