Employee training and development
The Board of Directors has established the Human Resource Development Policy. According to it, the Company offers an employee’s development program to enhance knowledge and potential of employees by continuous training, which aimed at ensuring sustainable growth. After the breakout of COVID-19 was almost overed since the beginning of year, the Company held the training courses regularly and achieved the target as planed in the Annual Training Program as show follow:
| Training course | Number of participants |
Number of training hours |
% |
| Core program (communication) | 37 | 222 | 1.7 |
| Leadership/Psychological program | 220 | 1,464 | 11.0 |
| Productivity/Quality Improvement program | 74 | 444 | 3.3 |
| ISO Standard/Standard/another core tool program | 459 | 4,860 | 36.5 |
| Safety/Environment law and skill program | 479 | 3,348 | 25.1 |
| General (orientation, English, happy workplace) | 954 | 2,977 | 22.4 |
| Total | 2,223 | 13,315 | 100.0 |
| Human Capital Development | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | ||||||
| Average training hours of employees (hour/person/year) | 6 | 5 | 5 | ||||||
| Employee development and training expenses (Baht) | 1,780,868 | 1,474,850 | 274,812 (COVID-19) |
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In addition, the Company has developed the Career Path/Promotion Program which provides compensation to employees beyond short-term financial measures. Through the Career Path/Promotion Program Human Resources Department is responsible for employee development enhancing their knowledge and potential. In the Career Path/Promotion Program the HR Department sets typical career path courses in the Company, continuously assesses individual performance of employees, provides them with a package of training courses and verifies candidates for promotions. Such activities could bring benefit both to individual employee who is ambitious to his/her own development and promotion and the Company which always requires new talents.
