Joint workshop in Asia

Extract from original article in NORDEN News Magazine.

The VMV process was rolled out at the Singapore, Mumbai and Shanghai offices in early November 2006. In the following weeks, the employees at each of the three offices met and discussed vision and mission and values and behaviour. In connection with the annual Christmas party for all of NORDEN’s employees in Asia, which was held in Singapore on 8-9 December 2006, the employees across countries and positions, discussed the four NORDEN values and assigned red, yellow and green cards for unacceptable, acceptable and excellent behaviour in relation to the corporate values.

Challenging

”The main challenge will be to create a free, open discussion. In many Asian countries, there is very little tradition for employees expressing criticism about their conditions to their employer or colleagues, as is otherwise very common in Western European and US companies, so in that respect, this project is very challenging for the employees. But at NORDEN’s offices in China, Singapore and India we do maintain a nice, quite direct tone in our daily work, with everybody expressing what they mean “unfiltered”. That provides a good basis for this process, which I expect a lot from,” says Peter Borup, head of NORDEN’s activities in Asia.

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