Employees

Orkla's corporate culture is intended to promote value creation and ensure future recruitment. To succeed in this aim, the Group is dependent on the ability and commitment of each individual employee. The development of management and staff therefore has high priority. Orkla makes active efforts to promote diversity and a working environment that is characterised by trust, involvement and focus on improvement.

Restructuring and continuous improvement are a necessary element of Orkla's business operations. The Group involves employees in restructuring processes at as early a stage as possible in order to minimise uncertainty.

Orkla's motto, "Developing people – creating value", expresses our main goal and provides guidelines for how value creation is to be achieved in companies in the Orkla Group:

  • Recruit employees whose attitudes are in accordance with the Group's value base
  • Further develop employees' skills and attitudes by providing systematic training
  • Develop secure, safe jobs that make it attractive to work at Orkla
  • Manage the workforce responsibly in both good times and bad

 

 "Developing people – creating value" indicates both that the Group has high ambitions and that it has taken upon itself serious commitments. The challenges assume an extra dimension in times of economic decline. Orkla's business goal, to grow internationally, also makes human resource development more challenging. Transferring norms and social standards makes new demands on Orkla when the Group moves into new countries and incorporates different national cultures.

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