Carefully selected personnel able to self-organize and promptly react to any change in the conditions of production intensification is a major prerequisite of any company’s success. That is why matters of personnel organization and management are given so much attention to in the development strategy of Sawmill 25

Basic principle of the Company’s personnel policy is efficient use of each worker’s potential.

The main objectives of the Company’s personnel policy are as follows:

• attraction of qualified and highly-skilled personnel to work on the production;
• professional training of the personnel, raising skill level of employees;
• attraction of personnel reserve to execution of new administrative decisions;
• development of the corporate culture and maintenance of favorable psychological climate in the team.

The main principles of the Company’s personnel policy are:

• Scientific approach to personnel search, selection, recruitment and adaptation;
• Conformity to law;
• Adequacy of costs and results of training, retraining and professional development of personnel;
• Joint management, hence cooperation, interrelation and mutual help between operating personnel and mill administration.

Priority trends of the Company’s personnel policy:

• Improvement of the personnel motivating and stimulating system – elaboration of economic and social incentive patterns;
• Retraining and professional re-orientation of workers disengaged in the process of production modernization and personnel optimization;
• Continuous monitoring and efficiency evaluation of the personnel in service.

Structure of the personnel and number of workers

In 2009 Sawmill 25 had 1200 employees.