COMPLIANCE WITH THE FUTURE OF THE WORK

Constantly innovating to protect the value with next-generation solutions for a sustainable life, Aksigorta sees its workforce as its most valuable asset.

Forming agile, self-managing teams in order to become a connected and result-producing organization, Aksigorta strives to become a most preferred employer in the market. Aksigorta develops and retains the best talent while providing its employees with the competencies required by the future of work.

At Aksigorta, we have adopted continuous improvement principles in all human resources practices – from recruitment to career development, performance management to training/development opportunities. We aim to establish a work environment that will enable employees to enjoy more freedom and flexibility in their work and create value that is aligned with our common objectives.

In 2021, Aksigorta was presented with the Kincentric Best Employer award for the fourth year in a row. Kincentric, one of the world’s leading platforms in human resources and a renowned management consultancy, has granted awards based on its research carried out with employees for more than 20 years. Today, Kincentric’s awards are synonymous with workplace excellence.

Aksigorta employees:

• are independent, flexible, agile, and productive;
• take the initiative to reach clear objectives, make their own decisions with confidence to find solutions, and take responsibility for their output;
• build relationships based on trust and maintain them through dialogue and empathy;
• collaborate, learn from each other, and experience a culture in which they share their excitement with each other and feel a strong sense of belonging;
• have rapid access to all necessary resources, expertise and knowledge, focus on high value-added activities by utilizing technology, and as a result achieve self-development to help the company grow.

Talent Management

With 61 years of experience, Aksigorta focuses on providing the best employee experience to young talent. The company gives promising new talent development opportunities and actively helps them fulfill their potential. This approach is designed to attract the best talent to Aksigorta.

Aksigorta collaborates with universities and organizes internship programs that focus on professional development. The company also designs and implements modular special talent programs such as the NEXTPLORE Management Trainee segment.

Using advanced technology, Aksigorta focuses on attracting and recruiting talent who are most suited to the future of work, the company’s corporate culture and the requirements of the new agile world. The right candidates are assigned to the right roles through structured, competency-based interviews (either online or face-to-face), personality inventories, aptitude tests and development center practices.

During onboarding, Aksigorta supports new recruits with a structured orientation program to help them quickly adapt to and become acquainted with their colleagues, the organization and the corporate culture, while fostering a sense of belonging.

Training Development

To respond to the development needs of new generation talent and future leaders, Aksigorta’s Training Development team designs development programs in which the employees have access to sufficient resources, expertise and information to improve themselves, receive and give feedback and learn from each other. Aksigorta embraces a culture of continuous learning with its employees via advanced technology and promotes staff development to achieve the company’s best performance.

Training development methods used include live training sessions, e-learning, online virtual classrooms, online learning journeys, seminars/conferences, and experience sharing meetings from subject matter experts. Aksigorta adopts training solutions that comply with the needs of today and which also focus on the future.

Drawing on the synergy of its two strong partners, Aksigorta helps its employees to optimally plan their future and move forward on a career path that also encompasses Sabancı Holding and Ageas. Featuring the motto “Your Career, Your Aksigorta,” a transparent career path map that supports rotation and talent development for all employees is offered to staff members at the company.

Along with its Belgian stakeholder Ageas, Aksigorta prepares short- and long-term career experience opportunities. Aksigorta provides career opportunities to its workforce in conjunction with succession plans prepared across a wide area that covers Sabancı Group companies.

Internal Communication

In light of the indispensable value of Sabancı Holding and Ageas, two major shareholders, Aksigorta places its business conduct and performance-enhancing competencies at the heart of its employer brand. To help maintain a sound work-life balance for both Aksigorta employees and their families and to protect their mental and physical wellbeing, Aksigorta offers its employees wellness seminars as part of the WELLPOWER program.

Practical tips are also shared via mobile applications on how to maintain mental and physical wellbeing.

Aksigorta employees have access to internal clubs, organizations and other events that bring them together for purposes aligned to the current agenda. At Aksigorta, employees are offered a variety of social and hobby clubs. In addition, Aksigorta supports participation in arts and sports organizations inside and outside the company.

Remuneration and Benefits

A competitive, performance-based and fair compensation policy is adopted for Aksigorta employees. This compensation policy addresses employees’ social security and health service needs with appropriate compensation packages.

Performance Management

In order to achieve clear objectives at Aksigorta, we embrace an approach in which employees are able to take initiative by making their own choices, make decisions with a result-oriented perspective, and undertake the responsibility of the output they produce. Believing in the power of feedback, we provide and ask for feedback from Aksigorta employees to facilitate their development. With the “Pulse” mobile app introduced in 2019, Aksigorta created a 360-degree feedback culture, allowing employees to receive and give feedback whenever they want regardless of their job titles.

Perfx is the new performance management system that serves the Aksigorta’s changing work models and the performance evaluation needs occurring as a result of them. The system’s critical features are transparency, flexibility and the focus on feedback. In Perfx, employees can see each other’s targets. Performance forms are open all year long. Employees can change or update their targets any time even if it’s out of the target setting period.

Aksigorta Games is a performance and career management system that is designed for sales teams and it consists of a club structure. With this program, the success of the sales teams are announced, their skills are supported and an opportunity to manage their own careers are given. The entry conditions and benefits of the 4 different clubs in the Aksigorta Games change; sales teams are included in related clubs depending on their performance and they benefit from various advantages.

You are Beyond Awards, is an extensive recognition-appreciation and instant rewarding program where Aksigorta’s rewarding activities are gathered under a single roof. Under the scope of this program, rewards such as Classics, Success Stories and Surprises that serve different purposes are made. With You are Beyond Awards, recognition-appreciation activities are extensively and successfully performed with remote working.

Sustainable Business Model

Aksigorta supports social responsibility initiatives targeted at society and environmental awareness. Our work environment is based on the principles of fair and equal treatment for all employees regardless of their gender. At Aksigorta, we actively promote gender equality and employment of women. Aksigorta is a signatory to the Women’s Empowerment Principles developed by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and the United Nations Global Compact.

In 2021, Aksigorta embarked on a new journey with a unique way of working: Smart@work.

Implemented during the pandemic, Smart@work transforms the way we work by eliminating the need for employees to be physically together and allowing them to work from anywhere. The Smart@work model focuses on flexibility, freedom and results. This new approach opens up a whole range of new opportunities in the way people work by designing and implementing solutions that meet the requirements of today’s digital world.

With Smart@work, Aksigorta delivers a work experience that maximizes the ability to transform and adapt to change by aligning the physical work environment and tools with the future of work. This new working model is designed to create value with all Aksigorta employees for a more sustainable future.

In its corporate strategies, Aksigorta has set out its sustainability priorities for a better world and a sustainable future. The company supports the society and its employees with initiatives specifically aimed at increasing risk awareness. Aksigorta strives to match its operations and policies with the principles of sustainability to achieve alignment with its all stakeholders in its sustainability efforts. The company aims to create stakeholder value through an environmentally friendly and sustainable business model. Aksigorta’s sustainability policy includes the fundamental principles and procedures designed to minimize the negative environmental and social impact of both its operations and its customers’ activities. At the same time, Aksigorta aims to maximize the benefits of such operations and activities in a sustainable way.