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              Sustainability Report 2011
            
            
              Review of 2011 Targets
            
            
              
                Targets
              
            
            
              
                Progress
              
            
            
              
                Employees
              
            
            
              To achieve a 3% increase
            
            
              in the required professional
            
            
              qualifications of staff in
            
            
              designated positions over
            
            
              2010.
            
            
              Engineers in Towngas are striving for
            
            
              professional excellence, achieving
            
            
              a 5.5% increase in the required
            
            
              professional qualification of engineers
            
            
              over 2010.
            
            
              To revamp the Performance
            
            
              Management System for
            
            
              general staff.
            
            
              Revamped the Performance
            
            
              Management System for general staff
            
            
              and managers. The System provides a
            
            
              framework of planned goals, standards
            
            
              and competence requirements to
            
            
              raise performance standards through
            
            
              a positive and constructive structured
            
            
              dialogue between appraisers and
            
            
              appraisees.
            
            
              To launch Corporate
            
            
              TLC+ Talent Acceleration
            
            
              Programme for the Group.
            
            
              19 executives were chosen to participate
            
            
              in the 2011 TLC+ programme, which
            
            
              provides fast track personal growth as
            
            
              well as development opportunities in
            
            
              the building of a talent pipeline for the
            
            
              Group.
            
            
              To identify and implement
            
            
              company-wide and
            
            
              department action plans based
            
            
              on the results of the Employee
            
            
              Engagement Survey held to
            
            
              make Towngas a better place
            
            
              to work.
            
            
              Various action plans were identified
            
            
              and are being implemented. These
            
            
              include the revamp of the Performance
            
            
              Management System, the enhancement
            
            
              of medical benefits, the launch of the
            
            
              Employee Assistance Programme as well
            
            
              as the “Leading Others” initiative.
            
            
              To revamp the company’s
            
            
              internal website as a platform
            
            
              for internal communication
            
            
              and the sharing of intellectual
            
            
              capital.
            
            
              A revamped corporate portal was
            
            
              launched internally to provide a user-
            
            
              friendly and centralised platform for
            
            
              our employees offering easy access to
            
            
              corporate information and the sharing
            
            
              of intellectual capital.
            
            
              
                The Community
              
            
            
              To enhance our community
            
            
              service support for the younger
            
            
              generation.
            
            
              A total of 470 students attended our
            
            
              Cooking For Fun English workshop, a
            
            
              voluntary programme targetted at
            
            
              under-privileged primary students.