At Spring, one of our goals is to have empowered and satisfied employees and by achieving this goal, we firmly believe that we will deliver our overall strategy. One of the key ways we will succeed this is by creating a more transparent working environment where knowledge and information is shared and accessible to all. Our Learning and Development department is dedicated solely on enabling each and every employee to excercise greater choice and control over how their career is developed within Spring.

Launched in September 2004, Careers Paths is a reference tool enabling an employee and their manager to plan role-based development and career development more effectively. The scheme allows access to information relating to an employee's current role and to other roles within the organisation which may be of interest from a personal and/or career development perspective.

Career Paths promotes the following features:

• Clearly defined Role and Responsibility statements for each department and Operating Unit within Spring.
• An indication of possible paths for personal and career development.
• Knowledge, skills and competencies defined for each role.
• Standard performance measures for each role.
• Additional information which is relevant to a particular department or Operating Unit.
• Links to documents and processes which will support an employee and manager during every stage of their career development.