This is why the Group’s Management Board and Human Resources Management have designated “Values & Culture” as a strategic field of action for the coming years. The following three corporate values were defined in a first step:
- Entrepreneurial Mindset:
We are guided by success. Our approaches and actions are entrepreneurial. Our passion for solutions and innovation provides the basis for joint action. We are team players primed for success because we always seek the best possible outcome together. In so doing, we always work to our customers’ benefit while also considering our other stakeholders. We always strive for excellence in our actions—and let it be our guide. - Appreciation in the Workplace:
We build upon our diversity as a team. We are respectful and fair toward each other, our customers, and our partners. We trust each other and align with values common to us. We create a motivating work environment infused with team spirit, where respectful cooperation is at the core of our actions, day in and day out. - Sustainable Action:
We perform our jobs responsibly. In our daily work, all of us act autonomously within defined responsibilities, demanding and fostering high degrees of individual responsibility. We remain curious and do not rest on our laurels; instead, we evolve together to bring about continual improvements. Our actions are sustainable, proactive, and forward looking.
The new value structure has evolved from employees’ existing needs and desires. We have extracted the essence of the existing cultural initiatives and identified those values that unite us across the Group and distinguish us as voestalpine. The values that shape the divisions and the company on the whole thus provide the load-bearing walls, so to speak, and the values practiced by the Human Resources department represent the overarching roof.
It is also important to internalize that all three values are equally important and are a lived reality. No one value can offset another. Defining a shared value system unique to voestalpine and provides the basis for a long-term cultural campaign that is shaped and supported by our employees. This is because instead of just defining them, we need to make the values more visible in our daily activities and work together to bring them to life.