Human Resources

A Vital Component

Many organisations view an HR Department as a 'necessary evil' within their company. Here at Cobham, this couldn't be further away from the truth. Indeed, we view our HR Department as essential to our continued growth, development and increased sophistication. Why? Because we fully appreciate the fact that our successes could not have been achieved without the energy, innovation and drive of our people. People who we actively strive to nurture and develop.

Currently, we're working hard to make our HR facilities even better. We want our team to be more than ready to address the rigorous strategic and commercial challenges of tomorrow, while also constructing a strong and enduring base for our ongoing, long-term success.

Ultimately, our aim is to maintain a culture that is:

• Customer focused
• Inspired and motivated
• Cohesive and team oriented
• Flexible and responsive
• Change embracing

Innovative Approaches

In such a complex organisation as ours, it's essential that our HR Department comprises many complementary and innovative approaches. These include:

• Training and development - giving our people the opportunities to grow exciting careers
• Partnering - ensuring that people in different areas of the business can work together effectively
• Strategic - having the right procedures and policies in place to ensure our people can meet business challenges
• Consultative - working closely with our people to discover what they want. Never dictating to them
• Business oriented - keeping HR strategies closely aligned to the present and future demands of our business
• Solutions focused - addressing any personnel problems and anticipating (and heading off) any that may occur
• Continuous improvement - develop talent, raise every single person's performance and make sure that what we do gets better and better building talent pools for the future
• Attract excellence - make our company the first point of call for the best professionals: enable us to acquire global expertise
• Develop future capacity - ensure our company can meet tomorrow's challenges
• Improvement teams - building and promoting excellence across our organisation
• Encourage diversity - maintaining a motivated workforce whose composition reflects the markets and areas we serve

Friendly and Flexible

In addition to these elements, we also 'go the extra mile' to ensure we have a working environment that reflects many of the concerns of today's workforce. This doesn't just mean good salaries and benefits - though ours compare favourably with any other leading organisations: we've also striven to make sure we have a flexible and family-friendly working environment. We know that a contented workforce is a productive and successful workforce. So, if we can help them maintain a good work-life balance, then everybody wins.

Delivering the best-in-class

As you can see, we at Cobham actively use our HR expertise to benefit our business. We want to maintain the best-in-class HR that continues to deliver our workforce an attractive and enjoyable working environment where people always feel valued. Through our culture of continuous improvement, we'll continue to deploy performance management and talent management strategies that will address our needs and maintain a happy, motivated and lean working environment. Now and in the future.