Plan K – our sustainability strategy

We aim to adhere to Plan K, our sustainability strategy for 2016 to 2020.

Our vision:

We want to maintain the long-term sustainability of our business by cultivating the entrepreneurial environment in the Czech Republic and by reacting to other significant risk factors.

  • We help with what we do best

    • With our expert knowledge and competence we contribute to the advancement of society.
    • We utilise our expert knowledge to promote responsible and social entrepreneurship among younger generations. We help non-profit organisations and social businesses make their activities more effective and gain more time and space for their important charitable work.

  • Ethics and transparency

    • We lead by example and support market transparency and ethical behaviour with all means available to us.
    • We openly communicate with all of our stakeholders.
    • We focus on quality, as for us it is not an abstract concept but instead the result of procedures, processes, and integrity that we apply when providing services to clients.
    • With its ethical character, our business contributes to a significant increase in the transparency of the Czech entrepreneurial environment.

  • Employee care

    • Our employees are essential to us.
    • We take care of them by assisting them in their personal development and endeavouring to create an inspiring working environment also through activities focusing on sustainable development.

  • Responsible operations

    • We incorporate responsibility principles into all our operative functions.
    • Social businesses and non-profit organisations are integral parts of our supply chain.
    • We aim to function in an environmentally sound manner.
    • Due to its nature, the ecological impact of our business is relatively low. We nevertheless keep track of our carbon foot print and strive towards its reduction.

Groups in dialogue with us

We actively look for dialogue opportunities with our stakeholders on the impacts of our business on society, the economy and the environment. We are in continuous contact with the individual groups and closely cooperate with them on a number of topics crucial for sustainable entrepreneurship.

We actively communicate with our stakeholders, among them:

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  • We conduct regular client satisfaction surveys, have personal client meetings, organise expert conferences and other events for them where we can discuss our mutual cooperation.
  • We actively communicate through our website and social networks.
  • We prepare regular information materials about events in our firm and the services that we offer.
  • We actively cooperate with the media and our experts are often featured.
  • Our clients put heightened emphasis on the following responsible business topics: ethics and transparency, risk management and services quality (confidentiality of information, independence), education and training.
Communication
  • Personal meetings
  • Expert conferences and other events
  • Web sites
  • Social networks
  • Newslettery
  • Media
  • Surveys and studies
Crucial topics
  • Ethics and transparency
  • Education and training
  • Quality of services and risk management
  • We are continuously in touch with our employees via internal communication channels, employee events and training courses at work.
  • Through the annual Global People Survey (GPS), we survey employee satisfaction and their opinions and needs.
  • Within the MyPD (My Performance Development) programme, regular performance reviews aimed at work performance and personal development take place.
  • We also meet in project groups and have group meetings involving entire departments.
  • We regularly issue Echo, an internal magazine, informing our employees about key management decisions, the firm’s performance, fascinating projects and past social and sports events in which our colleagues participated.
  • The firm’s intranet is also an important communication tool.
  • Important topics include education and training, employee care, the working environment, diversity and our local communities.
Communication
  • GPS (Global People Survey) – annual employee satisfaction survey
  • MyPD – regular performance reviews
  • Project groups
  • Group meetings
  • Internal magazine Echo
  • Social events
  • Sports groups
  • Intranet
Crucial topics
  • Education and training
  • Employee care
  • Working environment
  • Diversity
  • Local communities
  • Ethics and transparency
  • We meet people interested in working for our firm by participating in all major job fairs. One of them is Big4Day, a job fair organised jointly with other Big 4 advisory firms.
  • We actively communicate with our colleagues-to-be via social networks and our web pages.
  • A crucial source of information and comments allowing us to enhance our services is the feedback we get from questionnaires.
  • The most popular topics among potential employees and students include education and training, career growth, working environment and diversity.
Communication
  • Job fairs
  • Big4 Day
  • Social networks
  • Web sites
  • Blog
  • Feedback questionnaires
  • Newsletter
  • Regular personal gatherings
  • Web sites
  • Social networks
Crucial topics
  • Education and training
  • Employee care
  • Working environment
  • Diversity
  • Networking
  • Local communities
  • We try to keep in touch with our former employees and to stay abreast on their career development once they embark on a different path.
  • We prepare information materials for them on a regular basis and communicate with them via social networks and our website. We also meet them in person, e.g. at regular alumni events.
  • Our former employees most often highlight the following CSR topics: ethics, transparency and care for local communities.
Communication
  • Newsletter
  • Regular personal gatherings
  • Web sites
  • Social networks
Crucial topics
  • Networking
  • Local communities
  • We also periodically meet representatives of regulatory and administrative bodies and other professional associations and organise expert conferences and other events for them.
  • At these events, the following topics are most frequently discussed: ethics and transparency, the quality of our services and risk management systems.
Communication
  • Regular meetings
  • Expert conferences and other
Crucial topics
  • Ethics and transparency
  • Quality of services and risk management
  • Through our corporate communication, we have established an ongoing dialogue with the media, including prominent Czech periodicals, and other stakeholders.
  • Together we discuss our policies, services and visions, and inform them about our results and respond to their queries.
  • We issue press releases, expert articles and commentaries and organise press conferences and personal meetings with media representatives.
  • CSR topics most often covered are ethics and transparency, risk management and service quality, local communities.
Communication
  • Press releases, commentaries
  • Expert articles
  • Personal gatherings
  • Web sites
  • Social networks
  • Media
Crucial topics
  • Ethics and transparency
  • Quality of services and risk management
  • Local communities
  • Ecological footprint
  • Local communities
  • We personally meet with non-profit organisation representatives through the organisation of professional and educational events.
  • In our discussions about our CSR business, non-profit representatives most frequently ask us about help for local communities, ethics and transparency.
Communication
  • Personal gatherings
  • Feedback questionnaires
  • Professional events
Crucial topics
  • Local communities
  • Ethics and transparency
  • We meet regularly during business meetings.
  • Our common topics are ethics and transparency and the quality and scope of provided services.
Communication
  • Business meetings
  • Supplier screenings
Crucial topics
  • Ethics and transparency

After assessing the impact of our business on individual stakeholders and the effect these groups have on our business, we have identified clients, employees and partners, regulatory and professional organisations potential employees and students as our priority stakeholders:.

Based on discussions with our priority stakeholders, we identified the following key topics that we intend to focus on as part of our Plan K and that we will continue to report on:

Economic Environmental Societal
Economic results Waste management – with main focus on paper consumption Employee care
Anti-corruption mechanisms – with main focus on quality and risk management, independence, Emissions – with main focus on employee transport Training and development
  Energy consumption Diversity and equal opportunities
    Local communities