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Raiffeisen Bank International | Sustainability Report 2017
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Future outlook and Sustainability
Program
Human Resources
Having conducted the group-wide employee survey with the headquarters in Austria in 2017, work on the
analysis and implementation of the package of measures resulting from the survey results will continue in 2018.
Furthermore, new IT solutions and providers will be evaluated in order to give due consideration to the new
requirements of feedback culture.
At RBI AG, the measures for the “Diversity 2020” initiative will be continued. A diversity policy for RBI will be
published in mid-2018.
In parallel with the digitization topics, which were implemented in the market development areas at RBI AG, the
HR function will be more involved with the resulting changes in the work world. Subsequently, a new digital HR
agenda will be drafted which gives due consideration to the opportunities and challenges of changes in the
banking world.
In order to adequately address the developments of advancing digitalization, the “landscape” of RBI’s HR
information systems should be substantially further developed. In an initial phase, several network banks and the
headquarters are working on selected HR core processes in a transnational project, which will be operated
centrally from a competence center of the Czech network subsidiary.
Inhouse ecology
Environmental protection, along with conservation of resources and mobility, is one of the mega-trends of this
century and is changing the awareness and behavior of humans and companies in a variety of ways. The primary
goal of international climate policy, agreed on during the Paris Climate Agreement (COP21) of December 2015
and implemented in October 2016, describes limiting global warming to below 2°C, which is consistent with the
scientific findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Agenda 2030.
The central task in the management of environmental trends involves contributing towards the attainment of the
Paris climate goals for RBI. This includes the identifying of strategically important areas of energy consumption
and the mobility sector. In times of dynamic and regulatory environmental development, the main environmental
opportunities for, and risks to companies must also be reviewed in the strategic analysis. For RBI, these primarily
include economic, political and social changes, changes to the market and changes in the supply chain. In all
these areas, a higher level of flexibility is required for the environmental goals and environmental measures.
The EU’s priorities in the area of renewable energy and energy efficiency have a supporting effect, as these
topics are also of great importance to RBI. In addition to innovative programs to reduce carbon dioxide emissions,
they will be key to achieving the set environmental objectives.
RBI set environmental targets for the entire group many years ago. As a result of the dynamic developments in
2016, these goals were adjusted to the 2°C target of COP 21 with a long-term timeframe through to 2050. In
the coming years, the climate goals for RBI determined in 2017 by the Raiffeisen Sustainability Initiative (RNI) will
predominantly be adapted, and new areas for action will be reviewed (see also page 144).