A key objective for Swedish Match is to continuously develop both leadership and employee skills in order to strengthen the result oriented culture while contributing to the improvement and growth of the Company.
A key objective for Swedish Match is to continuously develop both leadership and employee skills in order to strengthen the result oriented culture while contributing to the improvement and growth of the Company.
In order to meet current and future competence needs and business objectives, Swedish Match focuses on strengthening and reinforcing an overall performance oriented culture by continuing to develop leadership and employee skills.
Swedish Match focuses on Employer Branding efforts in order to maintain its position as an attractive employer as well as to retain and attract a strong employee base. During 2012, efforts to recruit talents, both internally and externally, continued to secure the Company’s competence base for both short and long term challenges.
Competence development
Managers and employees have ongoing open discussions regarding individual targets and plans as well as the overall objectives of the Company. Managers must demonstrate good leadership by setting clear targets, providing ongoing coaching and counseling, conducting reviews, and delegating tasks and assignments. The Company continuously evaluates adequate training and development efforts to promote professional growth and career enhancement. The annual performance evaluation is an instrumental part in this career development as the tool helps to identify individual goals, targets, and development needs.
An important part of the Company culture is to recruit internally. The ambition is to take advantage of internal competence by providing development opportunities so that employees can accept more responsibilities in the organization during the course of their careers.
Work environment
Swedish Match believes a sound work environment is a key feature of being an attractive employer. Good personal health and job satisfaction are key requirements for the creation of a sound work environment for our employees.
Swedish Match’s ambitions include offering all employees opportunities to achieve a balance between work and leisure time. We believe that a highly functional personal life and high standards of job performance go hand-in-hand, and we strive to provide opportunities for our employees to combine stimulating assignments with leisure time and family.
Employee surveys
Swedish Match encourages employees to have an active dialogue with their managers to create an attractive and motivating work place. The HR organization annually coordinates and conducts a global employee survey to identify common improvement areas. In October 2012, the survey was conducted in eight countries in seven different languages, and a total of 88 percent of all employees participated.
Read about Swedish Match’s employee responsibility.