Vivendi

Stéphane Roussel, Senior Executive Vice President, Human Resources (ASDR 2009)

Innovation also means anticipating change in order to reconcile technological time with social time

« Vivendi, with its positioning as world leader in communications and entertainment, and given its business sector, driven by the accelerated pace of the new technologies, must count on the talent of its employees.
That talent is the very foundation of the innovation on which the Group’s success is based. That capacity for innovation, regardless of the jobs an employee does, must be encouraged, supported, and recognized. That is why the Group has chosen to adopt a decentralized form of human resources management so that each business unit can remain close to its own business concerns and its specifi c realities while easing the passage from one unit to another, with Vivendi’s business units becoming more and more complementary.
Innovation also means anticipating change in order to reconcile technological time and social time. Dialogue with trade unions and personnel representatives is an essential factor. While the company’s responsibility is to conduct reorganizations, it is also to accompany employees in their careers. And the more we develop the ability to discuss and negotiate with unions and personnel representatives upstream, the better we can meet that social requirement. This process is shared by the Group’s business units.»