Our employees

Having the right people in the right place at the right time is critical in order to build successful companies. To recruit and retain the right people, we emphasize creating an attractive workplace that focuses on competence, professionalism and quality awareness. During 2010, we focused on facilitating the knowledge exchange and interaction within our global organization, and in line with this, we integrated the Core and Operating Investments organizations and launched a new internal communications and collaboration platform.

Our 162 employees are based at offices in Stockholm, Amsterdam, Beijing, Hong Kong, Menlo Park and New York City.

DIVERSITY CREATES VALUE
Diversity is a key priority for us, because it creates a dynamic and more creative workplace. However, it is also a necessary element if we are to succeed as an active owner in holdings in different industries and different geographical markets that face different challenges. Thus, we have built a team of employees with different nationalities, age, gender, expertise and backgrounds. For example, we continued our efforts to increase the representation of women in senior management positions within business in general, but also in our own organization and holdings. However, a lot of work remains to be done. Within our own organization, the share of women in leading positions has grown during 2010. Our emphasis on appointing more women to leading operational management positions, will increase the recruitment base for management groups and board positions in the long term. Our ambition is to have at least one man and one woman in the final process for every recruitment activity, labour law permitting.

PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT
Since the competence of our employees is of central importance to our ability to develop best-in-class companies, we offer each employee the opportunity to advance their education and enhance their professional knowledge on a continuous basis.

REMUNERATION
We offer competitive remuneration in line with market conditions to ensure that competent employees can be recruited and retained in the company. We offer  employees a total compensation  consisting of a basic salary, variable salary and longterm share-based remuneration. The outcome of the variable salary depends on the employee’s fulfillment of personal yearly goals, while the outcome of the share-based component depends on how successful the organization is in creating long-term value for our shareholders. The share-based component of an employee’s salary requires a personal investment in Investor shares.

Our culture guides our actions

A strong and clear corporate culture is of importance for our ability to achieve our vision and goals. We are constantly developing our corporate culture on the basis of our four Core Values. 

• Create value: we create value in everything we do with a long-term view and short-term impatience.
• Continuous improvement: we think forward – there is always a better way.
• Contribute your view: we state, listen to and respect different views. We encourage integrity, openness and dialogue. When a decision is made, we take our responsibility.
• Care for people: we are fair and open to one another. We contribute to growth and success as individuals and in teams. We are accountable for results.

We conduct a yearly employee survey to ensure that our development is moving forward and that we are creating an attractive and profitable workplace, which ultimately creates value for our shareholders.

Information updated 2011-03-21 13:06:25