Our Aims and Targets

Employees

The commitment of Johnson Matthey’s employees will be key in delivering our Sustainability 2017 Vision. Communication, engagement and training will be a priority over the next year to build on the work we have done since the vision was launched.

Read more about our Sustainability 2017 communications with employees

The next employee survey (covering our global Emission Control Technologies business) will take place in summer 2008 and we will publish its findings in next year’s report.

We will review the 2007 performance data to help identify best practice and develop action plans to support business needs. We now have four years of data in this area from which we will highlight key trends. Further work will be undertaken to research and agree appropriate benchmarks for comparative and continuous improvement purposes.

Our people targets and plans are set at a business unit level to reflect the specific objectives and strategic issues faced by the business units. These may be supplemented by group initiatives, for example those relating to Sustainability 2017.

Charity and Community

We aim to integrate plans and targets for community activities into standard business planning procedures both at corporate level and at sites. This includes budgeting for community and charity activities and responses to specific engagement activities.  Business sustainability plans (introduced from 2008/09) are expected to incorporate a community element. We will continue to offer further support to sites in developing and implementing meaningful community programmes and facilitate the sharing of best practice across the group. We will conduct the annual review of site community engagement activities again and continue to focus on how best to measure and improve the impact of our community involvement.

We will continue to support a wide range of charitable causes in 2008/09. In particular, we are developing a specific programme of support focused on promoting the understanding and awareness of science among children and young people. Encouraging the next generation of scientists is very important to the sustainability of our industry and we will continue to contribute our resources and expertise.

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