Saint Gobain - Registration document 2016

4 AN EFFICIENT AND RESPONSIBLE GROUP

3. A Group that is committed to the professional growth of its employees

3.2

THE FOUR PILLARS OF THE OPEN PROGRAM

personal development that makes it possible to reconcile work performance with employees’ wellbeing. In order to With its history and the wealth of its social dialog, Saint-Gobain’s human resources policy seeks to offer every person a working environment favoring professional and increase employees’ commitment and satisfaction, the Group

exemplary management and social dialogue. Network) program, a management tool designed for all employees. Saint-Gobain’s employees form a community of supportive entrepreneurs based on the Principles of Conduct and Action, respect for the health and safety of employees, has launched the OPEN (Our People in an Empowering

THE OPEN PROGRAM

PURSUE DIVERSIFICATION IN OUR TEAMS

DEVELOP OUR MOBILITY POLICY

ONGOING DIALOGUE WITH OUR STAKEHOLDERS

CROSS-DISCIPLINARY STRATEGY OF HABITAT LEADER

INCREASE EMPLOYEE COMMITMENT

DEVELOP OUR TALENTS

INNOVATION AS A DRIVER OF DEVELOPMENT

CUSTOMER-FOCUSED ORGANIZATION

differentiation. Four priorities of action are combined in the OPEN program: professional mobility, team diversity, employee commitment and talent development. positionning Saint-Gobain in a dynamic of openness: open to listen to the world surrounding it and to provide answers to customers’ needs, and open internally to stimulate exchanges, innovation, team work and work in project mode and create In recent years, the Group has experienced significant developments, particularly the transition from a product-oriented to a market-oriented organization, employees of five “Saint-Gobain Attitudes”: necessary to rethink the Group’s managerial practices and functioning. In December 2016, Saint-Gobain informed all its The social, economic and technological changes make it cultivate customer intimacy: understand, anticipate and ‹ respond to the needs of internal and external customers by “providing solutions”; by being open to new ideas and the ability to adapt to change; act as an entrepreneur: focus on performance and results ‹

innovate: show curiosity, promote and value diversity to ‹ favor the forming of new ideas; those connected with digital technology, while remaining focused on results; be agile: be proactive and anticipate changes, including ‹ build an open and engaging culture: practice kindly ‹ leadership within the context of an unstable, uncertain and complex world. managerial referential in 2017. These “Saint-Gobain Attitudes” will become the Group’s new skills necessary for the organizational and technological requirements of the Group’s Activities, sharing knowledge of markets and customers and in return enriching the careers of its employees. Activities, is a priority for the development of skills and the opening of each one. It is the best way of contributing diversity, developing innovation, developing the collective Promoting and enriching professional mobility at Saint-Gobain, whether geographic, functional or between the Enrich the mobility policy 3.2.1

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