Italy: merit based salaries for Manfrotto (Vitec Group Imaging Division) employees

Being a leader and innovating can get you up to 12% more in salary if you are an employee in the Italian company Manfrotto whose head office is based in Cassola North East Venice. Employing some 900 staff, 550 of whom are in Italy, the company has just established an original new   system of performance and behavior evaluation that will directly impact salaries. The principle underlying the evaluation system came up first in 2013 during negotiations over the current five-year company agreement and following a trial period, the majority Fim-Cisl union has recently approved the new system. The union had contributed to its design as did the employers’ body Confindustria and also the University of Pisa (who assisted with the project’s implementation and also validated it scientifically).
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10% more salary for those at the ‘top of the class’. The “Manfrotto model” intends to clearly assign employee specific personal objectives. A series of skills and competences will be clearly established and defined that will be based on the values and priorities of the company, including innovation, service, leadership, collaboration, sensitivity, sales ability, quality of work, business sense, strategic thinking, etc.). A computer-based evaluation of these criteria is then conducted by a manag

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