Training programs to enhance cooperation

  • Language development: Reflecting MOL Group’s widening internationalism, language education is an important part of strategic co-operation in 2010. The most common working language in international assignments is English, but on the other hand, some local languages (e.g. Italian and Croatian) are also in focus.
  • Organizational development: Downstream Development started organizational development with structural changes in 2009, and then in 2010 the process continued with workshops where they defined common values and goals in line with the business strategy in Hungary and Slovakia. The Vision is cascaded down in each unit to all employee levels thereby promoting the realization of our strategy together with action planning at all organizational levels.
  • Business Education Program: in 2010 75 fresh graduates took part in 23 sessions of the Business Education Program. The program was complemented by site visits to the Danube Refinery at Százhalombatta, the lubricant manufacturing site at Komárom, the gas site at Algyő, and the Petrochemicals site at Tiszaújváros. Internal lecturers from numerous divisions, functional areas and subsidiaries gave speeches on certain activities – involving technical, financial or legal, etc. issues – and shared best-practices. Participants not only listened to the lectures but in groups of 3 they had to hold a presentation on a given topic.
  • Cross cultural workshops: In 2010 Croatian cross cultural workshops were organized 3 times in Budapest and 1 time in Zagreb (with a total of 27 participants) who are either expatriates at INA or work closely with INA employees from Hungary. The purpose of the training is to familiarise employees with the history, cultural heritage, traditions and expected organisational behaviour of the host country, including the basic rules for verbal and non-verbal communication, and social and community life and personal interchanges. This cross cultural training aims to help the employee to better understand the behaviour of local people and make him/her more accepted in this new environment.
  • Corporate Volunteering: Corporate volunteering plays an increasingly important role at MOL Group so as to strengthen co-operation and encourage participation in social events. In 2010 58 managers and experts of our Downstream Division helped on a voluntary basis to build a playground for children. FGSZ employees (92 people) participated in the building of a sports hall in a Hungarian village. This program also runs in Slovakia and Romania.