 One of the most important aspects of MMC Norilsk Nickel’s social policy is the development of its own staff, and the creation of conditions that are conducive to high levels of efficiency and innovation in the workplace. The growth in productivity and the improvement in production efficiency at the company’s various facilities are being achieved as a direct result of training for the future and the constant raising of its workers’ levels of qualification.
Norilsk Nickel has established and is continually refining a system of staff training that includes such provision as
- A corporate training basis - a network of educational combines designed to train 30,000 people a year; training programmes for 200 career tracks and 100 courses designed to raise the level of qualification of those in management; a tutorship system; the ongoing “Master Craftsman School” programme; special programmes aimed at recruiting and training young workers and specialists
- Co-operation with the relevant faculties of the country’s leading academic institutions – the Academy of Finance, the Governmental Economic Academy of the Russian Federation, the Russian Economic Academy, the Moscow State Mining University, the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, the St. Petersburg State Mining Institute, the Instititute of Economics and Industrial Management – for the running of short-term seminars on the actual questions of managing an enterprise’s production and financial / economic activities, and for the training of management potential under a special package of programmes
- The “LINK” distance learning programme
This is a system for training the company’s personnel, and is constantly being refined through the utilisation of contemporary educational methods using information and communication technology. In 2001, more than twenty seven thousand Norilsk Nickel workers gained higher qualifications and underwent retraining. The cost of personnel training in 2001 came to over 200 million rubles.
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