EMPLOYEES AND THE WORKPLACE
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Diverse and equal opportunities
To build the most successful global organisation Jotun works hard to ensure employees experience
different cultures, positions and challenges – increasing understanding, encouraging new perspectives and
embracing opportunity.
Ideally, we want employees to enjoy fulfilling, life-long
careers at Jotun. Rather than having them look elsewhere for
new challenges, environments, influences and experience,
Jotun wants its people to develop within the organisation –
achieving personal satisfaction and adding value as tenures
progress.
To create this culture of opportunity Jotun focuses on two
cornerstones of development – building diversity and inclusion
within the workplace, and promoting local and global employee
mobility opportunities.
Equality and inclusion
Jotun believes that diverse and inclusive working environments
provide benefits for all stakeholders. Different cultural,
professional, ethnic, gender and age backgrounds give different
perspectives, helping the most diverse organisations tackle
challenges and opportunities with a more open, informed and
innovative approach. This translates to better solutions and
direct competitive advantage.
In addition, an organisation where ‘everyone is welcome’
promotes a sense of involvement, equality, unity and
commitment, with a desire to add value wherever possible.
The development and results of Jotun programmes are
monitored and followed up in yearly Business Reviews and HR
Reviews in the local entities.
Realising value
With 86 nationalities represented. Jotun is the definition of
diversity, but is always working to improve.
Rather than concentrate on numbers or ‘quotas’ for individual
companies to fulfil, Jotun actively strives to ensure that different
voices are encouraged, heard and acted upon; building a sense
of inclusion, while also obtaining optimal business value.
We are working hard to ensure that the best candidates,
regardless of background, prosper within this environment.
In summary, diversity and inclusion are priority areas to develop,
strengthen and improve going forward. It is closely linked
to Jotun values and the success of the company’s business
strategy, allowing us to tackle different segments, markets and
challenges with innovation, knowledge and a unique strength
in depth. Jotun’s top management is committed to building
on this platform, ensuring that individual companies support
positive development, while local action plans are tailored and
implemented to continue adding value.
Mobile benefits
To develop careers and lay foundations for the next generation
of company management, Jotun encourages employees to gain
cross-functional, cross-segment and cross-border experience.
This is achieved by the creation and promotion of strategic
recruitment, development of competence, local mobility, and
global mobility programmes.
In an international organisation that targets multiple segments
and product solutions, it is essential that ambitious employees
forge insight into different cultures, roles, operations and how
individuals at all levels work together to realise Jotun’s business
strategy.
As such, we focus on hiring candidates with the right skills and
mindsets to prosper, encourage local mobility/job rotation to
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