Employees play a crucial role in the process of building sustainable development of the company. It is their actions, skills, knowledge, openness to constant change, as well as their awareness of megatrends that are critical to the company’s success. One of the many tasks of the international HR teams in Selena Group is to raise the level of the company's organisational culture, and to build a sustainable work environment and environmentally responsible employee behaviors. By applying the “sustainable HR” concept, Selena successfully raises its standards of conduct towards employees and customers,
says Andrzej Zygadło, Chief HR Officer at Selena Group, an organization that specializes in construction chemicals, but is not a stereotypical company in its sector.
Selena Group is an example of a company that is demonstrating more and more openness to the presence of women in the line of business stereotypically regarded as masculine – in construction chemicals. For the last 30 years, I’ve been observing changes in the approach to women’s pursuing a career and taking senior positions in business,
says Iwona Koptewicz, who has built her career and competences at Selena in 12 different job positions, and today serves as Global Indirect Procurement & Operational Excellence Director.
In the construction industry, we are particularly committed to offering an inclusive workplace culture where all individuals develop and use their full potential, and our top leaders advance and empower women in the workplace. Our internal employee award program TITANS for Selena in Poland, in which managers and employees vote in 11 categories, has proven that at our company women are recognised and appreciated, and successfully run many projects. Women – female Titans of 2022 – won in as many as 8 out of 11 categories”.
Andrzej Zygadło, CHRO, adds.
As a leader, I must and want to be a model of what we want to achieve, a provider of values, behaviors and skills for our organization,
Barroso emphasizes.
Diversity in teams helps you look at certain challenges from different angles. And this can be seen, for example, during meetings – when a woman joins, she immediately sheds a different light on the topic being discussed. For this reason it’s so important to build awareness of the need to set up teams that are diverse not only in terms of the skill set, but also in terms of gender.
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