Our future – your opportunity

We about us

Working for Hochland is a part of our life and we want to make it as fulfilling as possible. The following guidelines for management and collaboration provide a basis for achieving long-term success together.

Our understanding of leadership

Initative

Information and communication

Innovation culture

Human relations

Conflict as a chance

Learning and encouragement as a duty

These guidelines apply to collaboration between staff in all divisions and at all levels. They are norms which require our commitment and bind us together. It is important to us that staff identify strongly with our values.

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•	Managers agree with their staff members upon clearly defined, challenging and attainable targets derived from the corporate targets.
•	Managers ensure that everyone recognizes and makes their contribution to the overall success.
•	Managers delegate tasks and responsibilities duly considering the qualifications and abilities of their staff.
•	They recognise and appreciate each staff member’s performance.

•	We take responsibility, show courage to take risk, and encourage thinking and acting on one’s own responsibility.
•	This might cause mistakes. We are willing to put up with and learn from these mistakes.
•	Managers support and create space for their staff’s own responsibility.

•	We communicate in a clear, open and honest way respecting the other.
•	We share our knowledge with others and involve, in good time, the parties interested in the decision-making processes. We communicate across hierarchies and divisions according to the principle: “I share what I have – I take what I need”.
•	We listen carefully and ask questions to know and understand what the person we are talking to desires.
•	We give necessary information briefly and concisely, carefully selecting the addressees so as to avoid information pollution.

•	We search and use the best ideas no matter where they come from.
•	Our goal is continuous improvement. This does not only apply to developing new products but to everything we do: We want to do each job better even if it takes some small steps.
•	We question the requirement for and efficiency of each and every existing asset or practice.
•	We create space for developing and implementing new ideas. Success encourages us, failure does not discourage us.

•	We appreciate fairness and tolerance in relating with one another and we refrain from vanity.
•	We promise only what is truly feasible so as to remain trustworthy.
•	We are willing to give and get help because high performance is the result of a team effort.

•	Openness, mutual respect and tolerance are the basis of our relations; this is particularly true for criticism.
•	We express our views objectively and frankly even if they are in conflict with those of our co-workers or superiors.
•	We identify conflict, take is seriously and look for common solutions.

•	We search and use opportunities for personal and professional development within the scope of the corporate targets.
•	Managers support the development of their staff in order to enhance strengths, to ensure deputisation and to prepare successors.
•	We assume an active role in passing on our knowledge and experience to our co-workers.