EMPLOYEES AND THE WORKPLACE
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Putting our people first
Jotun focuses on achieving long-term, sustainable growth through continual investment in its global
workforce.
In another challenging year for the coatings industry, Jotun
concentrated on the retention and development of its people,
maintaining steady workforce.
This approach supports our long-term organic growth
strategy, ensuring Jotun keeps qualified people and achieves
competitive advantage.
Enhancing efficiency
A new Human Resource Management System (HRMS) will
enable Jotun to deliver significant operational efficiencies,
business insights and enhanced decision-making support. 2018
has been defined by significant groundwork to prepare for the
new system, with a planned rollout in 2019.
Upon implementation this fully-integrated, cloud-based system
will be the ‘one-stop shop’ for all employee data, allowing
for optimal administrative efficiency, enhanced personnel and
team management, more efficient GDPR compliance and data
security, greater strategic alignment and better real time insights
to facilitate better decision making across the Group.
This cutting-edge system will be integral to the ongoing
development of our staff worldwide.
Rewarding excellence
Jotun has a policy of rewarding its employees with right,
fair and competitive remuneration – right for their position,
fair compared to colleagues, and competitive with regard to
external market benchmarks.
In 2018, we launched a Reward pilot programme in the Middle
East to ensure that our compensation and benefit professionals
are fully educated as to how they can use Jotun’s advanced
systems to execute effective compensation decisions. This
demonstrates how to access detailed internal and external
analysis tools, while identifying key trends. This initiative is now
rolling out throughout the Group, creating a common, efficient
and effective way to address compensation issues and reward
employees in line with Jotun policy.
Further HR developments
Global mobility – utilising insights on the sustainability of our
programme to strengthen Jotun’s culture of sharing expertise,
creating cross-border opportunity, and building a competitive,
flexible and attractive internal labour market.
Building leadership – increased emphasis on Jotun’s leadership
pipeline and development initiatives to ensure qualified,
motivated and high-quality leaders, now and into the future.
Worldwide review – continuing the Group-wide HR review
to ensure all employees have fair, valid and comprehensive
contracts, protecting their rights and ensuring universally high
standards for Jotun.
HR review