Good leadership and motivated employees
Leadership in Norske Skog (Lens) and the Spirit of Norske Skog(Spirit) are two key programmes which take an aggressive approach to infusing our employees with the knowledge and commitmentneeded to fulfil our vision of recognition as a world leader in thepaper industry.
Our vision sets ambitious goals for the future. We believe that good leadershipand motivated employees are clear requirements for reachingthese objectives.
Lens and Spirit
Lens and Spirit are intended to ensure that all employees have a common base and are as well equipped as possible to help ensure that we're recognised as a world leader in the paper industry. These programmes are customised for our needs, and based on requirements and wishes defined by managers and employees at various levels. Lens is a management development programme with a special focus on organisational progress, team work and managing human resources.
Leadership principles
Good management builds on our leadership principles and is crucial if we are to meet our goals efficiently and motivate our employees. We want to establish a common management platform across cultures and geographic boundaries. Through Lens, we also want to stimulate each manager to think constantly about improving results by being able to lead processes which create value added for co-workers and the group. The programme is designed for use by multi disciplinary groups which work to develop their leadership skills through individual study, meetings and study groups.
Lens provides a dynamic learning process related to each participant's day-to-day activities. It has so far been completed by roughly 100 managers.
The spirit of Norske Skog
Spirit represents a mobilisation for vigorous organisational development. Through reflection and discussion, we want to create a shared understanding of what Norske Skog stands for. With this programme, we are building a proprietary attitude to our corporate vision, values, goal and strategies. It is important that everyone shares an understanding of where we are heading. We also want to be clear about how we are going to get there, and what is demanded of each employee and manager.
The response to Lens and Spirit from our organisation has been exclusively positive.Although we embrace a number of cultures and languages, a strong desire and need has been expressed for creating a common identity across national boundaries and cultures and for communicating and building on eachother's best practice.
Cooperation with employee representatives
Norske Skog has developed a policy on cooperation with elected employee representatives based on our core values of honesty, openness and cooperation.
We concluded an agreement in 2002 with the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers (ICEM) which sets minimum global standards for employment, health and safety, and human rights for all our employees, suppliers and subcontractors.
However, the most important and valuable collaboration remains direct face-to-face communication with and involvement of employees in day-to-day work. This is a matter of openness and visible leadership.
A corporate identity, commitment and proprietary attitudes throughout the organisation can only be developed when each employee is respected and allowed to be an individual.
