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new innovation initiatives, developing our university partnership programmes, speaking at external and internal conferences, and delivering and participating in training opportunities. 

## Work environment and communications 

Clear and consistent communication is achieved through regular all-hands meetings, led by Dialog’s CEO, to keep employees fully aware of Company matters that affect them. We encourage employee feedback at all levels for new ideas to improve business efficiency and performance. 

Dialog has been implementing a programme of growth and investment in many of our locations, expanding facilities and work space. When we expand or refurbish a site, employee suggestions are incorporated to create an environment that both meets the Company’s business needs while also being a pleasant place in which to work, which can have a positive impact on productivity levels. 

Dialog is committed to supporting the health of its employees. Employees and their families are eligible to participate in non-contributory medical plans where local culture and practice supports this. Additionally, Dialog currently offers a selection of “well-being” initiatives across a variety of locations, including a free, on-site flu vaccination programme, cycle to work schemes and an on-site gym. 

Dialog runners from Europe and Asia ran the “dam-to-dam” run in Amsterdam to raise money for Amnesty International. 

## Communities 

Dialog increased corporate giving by over five-fold in 2012 to US$122,560. A plan has been put in place to continue to do more by setting a target of giving 1% of pre-tax profit to charity by 2015. We have a formal policy to match all employee contributions or funds raised for charitable causes that are important to our employees and the community. 

## University partnership programmes 

Dialog runs a range of programmes throughout Europe to attract the brightest and best students of school and university age into the electronics industry and our Company. We sponsor ten students at leading UK and European universities, provide access bursaries, academic prizes, and also run a range of schools’ outreach programmes. 

In 2012, Dialog sponsored five electronics engineering students from Imperial College, York, Bristol and Southampton through the UK Electronic Skills Foundation, an organisation that aims to encourage young people into electronics and develop sound links between universities and industry. We also provided industrial scholarships to students at Karlsruhe and Aaken universities in Germany, Edinburgh in the UK, and Twente in The Netherlands. Scholars receive a start-up bursary for books, an annual bursary, paid work placements, an opportunity for a summer job and an industrial mentor. 

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We also give three “access bursaries” of £1,000 each at the University of Edinburgh to assist low-income engineering students and give cash prizes at several universities, such as £800 for best second year project at Imperial College London. 

In September 2012, we sponsored a field trip for 20 electronic engineering students from the University of Twente in The Netherlands, who visited China to research the markets, Chinese universities, factories and businesses. 

Dialog staff were also seconded to present to school-age children about the exciting world of the electronics industry, offer careers counselling and work experience placements for students, act as guest lecturers at leading universities to help ensure young people come into the industry with the skills they need to thrive. 

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