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Human resources Goal: Highly-qualified human resources. In addition to training programs geared toward enhancing personal development and managerial skills of Hürriyet employees, the Company carried out journalism training by targeting professional development. During the 2007 training year, 183 Hürriyet employees received 696 hours of training in 25 categories. In line with Hürriyet's growing operations, developing organizational structure and new ventures, its Human Resources Department revamps, improves and continues to create highly-qualified human resources with high performance. Within evolving and constantly self-renewing organizational structures, the Human Resources Department updated job descriptions, as well as goals and competency requirements of positions during 2007. After assessing the performance of all Group employees in accomplishing the goals set for 2007 along with their competencies, the Human Resources Department established goals for 2008. The average salary increase in 2007 was 8.6% at Hürriyet. The Company took into consideration performance evaluation results while reflecting this into pay increases, keeping with their “high raise for low-salary employees and low raise for high-salary employees” policy. The self-regenerating, developing and growing organizational structures of the www.hurriyet.com.tr, www.hurriyetemlak.com, www.hurriyetoto.com, www.onpunto.com, www.anneyiz.biz websites, which were restructured to keep pace with growing internet penetration, as well as the recently-launched www.hamileyiz.biz and www.market.anneyiz.biz websites, continue to create new jobs at a fast pace. The Human Resources Department undertook efforts to relocate all employee request forms, as well as the monitoring of all authorizations and approvals, into the electronic platform. Consequently, Hürform was designed and launched; this is an electronic information-sharing project aimed at creating a time-saving, efficient and contemporary business model that provides transparent, auditable and rapid daily information flow. In addition to training programs geared toward enhancing personal development and managerial skills of Hürriyet employees, the Company carried out journalism training targeting professional development in 2007. The training programs were designed in consultation with the managers and in line with employee needs. During the 2007 training year, 183 Hürriyet employees received 696 hours of training in 25 categories. Internship opportunities were provided to 19 journalism students at the Aydın Doğan Vocational School for Communication, as well as to university students and five foreign students registered at the European Journalism Students Forum (FEJS) in the summer term. Management and monitoring of employee fringe benefits were placed under the supervision of the Human Resources Department in 2007. Personel Movements The consolidated number of Hürriyet employees increased from 2,500 in 2006 to 8,091 in 2007, due to the acquisition of the overseas publication company TME in March 2007. Employees were given one salary raise during the year, resulting in 8.6% net increase in salaries in January 2007. A severance pay obligation of YTL 10.1 million was calculated in relation to employees who are subject to Law No. 1475 and Law No. 5953 (212), taking gross salaries as a basis in accordance with CMB Communiqué Series XI, No. 25. |
