MANAGING GROWTH Developing individuals creates better teams. Jotun drives Group success by investing in the careers of everyone of its employees. Jotun tailors and anchors all HR activities and initiatives to enable the Group’s long-term organic growth ambitions. We do this by attracting, hiring and continually developing our people, helping them to fulfil their potential. Jotun sees the value of having individuals that master their job roles. Human Resources (HR) builds that value through training and development activities combined with an infrastructure allowing for mobility across departments, segments and borders. In this way our people grow as we do, gaining understanding and skills that drive their own careers, and Jotun’s success in the marketplace. CONTINUITY AND EVOLUTION 2016 has been another year of prudent growth, managing and expanding our employee base to adapt to new and existing challenges within markets. Jtun has focused on a programme defined both by continuity and gradual evolution. This has seen an emphasis on Jotun’s ability to grow organically, alongside efficiency in operations, and the development of people and leadership skills. FOCUSED ON THE FUTURE Young people are important for building a sustainable Jotun. It is one of Jotun’s principal challenges to attract and develop highly competent and motivated young recruits that encapsulate our Penguin Spirit, drive to achieve, commitment, and our core values. Our systematic recruitment process is of a uniformly high standard across the Group, with at least one certified recruiter for every company leading and quality assuring the entire process. However, retaining people, especially young people, in a successful business can be challenging. Therefore the need for creating room for people to grow and develop is of the utmost importance, so everybody can see their own way forward. For this reason, Jotun invests heavily in a structure that feeds both young and more experienced people opportunities, allowing for job rotation, international moves and personal coaching and development. As covered on page 46, our focus on creating an even more dynamic workforce increases employee engagement and satisfaction, secures our leadership pipeline for future growth, and provides opportunities to try new areas. This benefits seasoned employees as much as their younger colleagues, helping enhance business experience and understanding. Jotun introduced dynamic workforce reporting into company business reviews in 2016. This allows the Group to focus and follow up the importance of internal versus external recruitment, participation in the Global Workforce programme, and the level of job rotation taking place in all companies worldwide. BUILDING THE EMPLOYER BRAND Jotun is a company that celebrates its diversity, employing 82 nationalities from across the globe in more than 200 business locations. Making Jotun an attractive employer in all our existing and future markets is a huge but important task. In order to strengthen the inflow of well-qualified candidates into our recruitment process, Jotun has developed an employer branding campaign that will be rolled out globally in 2017. This initiative, targeting primarily 25 to 35 year olds, will equip local markets with material that promotes Jotun in a consistent, strong and attractive manner, communicating key messages and elevating market awareness. 2017 should be a year of further growth, in which we expect to surpass the 10 000 employee landmark. 40 EMPLOYEES AND THE WORKPLACE
Jotun Group Report 2016
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