Corporate culture
BUSINESS SKILLS AND FREEDOM WITH RESPONSIBILITY
Addtech's well-established corporate culture is rooted in business skills with high levels of technical expertise, combined with individual freedom and a willingness to take personal responsibility.
To be able to live up to our vision of being the leading value-adding tech provider, we must comply with our core values, what we call our soul. This philosophy describes how employees should approach their tasks, customers, business partners, colleagues and the surrounding world. It helps us develop and ensures that all employees gain a tested, successful working method and business skills, regardless of where they are in the Group.
Freedom with responsibility has always been a central concept within the Group and is a key prerequisite that enables subsidiaries and employees to work closely with customers and suppliers. Our decentralised organisation is based on our conviction that decisions achieve the best results when they are taken close to the market. For this to work, our subsidiaries must have freedom with responsibility, but never freedom without responsibility, nor responsibility without freedom. Business acumen also implies an ability to secure your own company’s long-term profitability and growth based on deals that work for all parties.
Over time, Addtech’s corporate culture has become a deeply anchored root system that links employees and subsidiaries. It also paves the way for Addtech’s future, and all employees are trained in the corporate philosophy via the Addtech Business School. A total of five core values are to permeate the employees’ work. Freedom and responsibility have already been mentioned; the other three are simplicity, efficiency and change.
ROOM FOR PEOPLE TO GROW
Our human capital is Addtech’s most important competitive asset. Management and employees in the subsidiaries must therefore interact with each other in various ways that benefit the customer and the Group. It is also important that our organisation safeguards employees’ interest in developing their capacity to assume increased responsibility in their own subsidiary or other parts of the Group.
Addtech’s decentralised organisation, high level of transparency and proactive cross-pollination are necessary for employees to grow in their professional roles and internal recruitment is an important tool for the supply of managers. Several of the Group’s senior managers began their careers in sales in one of the subsidiaries.
THE TRANSFER OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOW-HOW DEVELOPS ADDTECH
The transfer of experience and know-how benefits growth in the Group and in the individual companies. Examples of internal networks that strengthen the corporate culture and skills levels include our own Business School, managing directors’ meetings and cooperation between subsidiaries, our business areas and the various business units.
The overall aim of the training provided is to educate and motivate staff to become committed, successful employees in the Group. Affärsskolan’s various courses offer employees training adapted to their experience and duties, and are aimed at both new employees and senior executives in Group companies.
We work closely with our suppliers and within the framework of partnerships with them, a great deal of knowledge is transferred between the employees of both parties. Key personnel at Addtech also regularly spend time with suppliers in Europe, Asia and the USA. These relationships are important in terms of maintaining a high level of technical expertise in the respective market areas of the subsidiaries.