Building corporate culture: Creating momentum for development

​Currently, along with the production innovation and strict requirements from customers on product quality and many accompanying criteria, the construction of a cultural working environment will contribute to building a professional workforce.

This is not only the responsibility and obligation of the employers, but also the cooperation of the employees, contributing to the sustainable development of enterprises.

Building corporate culture, creating a friendly and positive working environment among workers

Building a professional working environment

 As an enterprise with a large number of workers with more than 40,000 people, over the last years, the Board of Directors of Changshin Vietnam Co., Ltd (Vinh Cuu district) and employees have always had cohesions in labor relations. One thing making employees feel secure is that enterprises always appreciate the roles, positions and contribution of employees. This is reflected in each enterprise's activities for employees throughout the company. Specifically, during holidays and Tet, the company's leaders and trade union stand to welcome back employees to work. This is a traditional activity, showing the typical culture of the enterprise and receiving a positive response from employees.

 Employee Le Thi Hien with 18 years of experience working at the company said that after many years of dedicating to the development of the enterprise the thing had impressed her were the times when business leaders had warmly welcomed back employees to work or directly came to the production factories to visit and offer workers New Year greetings. In addition, the business had given employees a lot of attention such as: supporting special meals during holidays, visiting workers building new houses, organizing traditional Tet for employees...

 At Dona Standard Co., Ltd (Xuan Loc district), the thing that employees feel satisfied is the modern, clean working space, making employees feel comfortable. Right from the entrance gate, the business arranges green tree corners, hang signs to propagate regulations so that employees can see and follow them easily. In production factories, employees are equipped with knowledge by banners on occupational safety and slogans with the theme of building corporate culture.

 Worker Le Anh Hao working at the enterprise said that for nearly 10 years of working with the company, he had had opportunities to develop professional skills, improve himself, participating in innovation initiatives for the business benefit. To have that result, it must be mentioned that the professional working environment of the enterprise that had encouraged employees to be creative and develop their capabilities. "When we come to the enterprise for work, we learn the rules, regulations, own culture of the business and the advancements of science and technology in production to improve ourselves," Mr. Hao confided.

 According to the leaders of Dona Standard Co., Ltd., one of the things making business to develop as they are today and create credibility with customers is building a cultural working environment and stable labor relations. In which, in addition to committing to quality assurance orders, policies to take care of employees are fully implemented. In addition, the enterprise always pays attention to behavior rules in the production process, taking the criteria of solidarity and friendliness to build a healthy workplace and employees respected to feel secure in production and show their capacity and skills.

 Vedan Vietnam Joint Stock Company (Long Thanh district) currently has over 3,500 employees. This is also one of the first foreign-invested enterprises to invest in Vietnam in general and in Dong Nai in particular. Over the last years, Vedan has been known as one of the typical units in taking care of employees because it has received the title of “Enterprise for Employees" for 4 consecutive years. Having this result must include taking care of the material and spiritual lives, improving the working environment for employees of the company. Therefore, the labor and employment situation at the company is always stable and developed.

Leaders of Changshin Vietnam Co., Ltd always keep an activity of welcoming workers to work during the holidays

Creating momentum for businesses development

 According to businesses, corporate culture is not only reflected in social responsibility but also responsibility for the products they make. To take care of their products and build a strong brand, building corporate culture becomes important, especially in the context of Industry 4.0 that requires businesses to regularly innovate products and production strategies. Therefore, in order to build a sustainable corporate brand, corporate culture must come first.

 According to the Provincial Confederation of Labor, an enterprise achieves cultural standards when that enterprise fulfills production and business targets; implement a civilized lifestyle and cultural environment at the enterprise. At the same time, improving the material and spiritual lives of employees and strictly follows the Party's guidelines and policies, and the State's policies and laws. When businesses successfully build a culture at their units, this will be the guideline for all success and sustainable development.

 Over the past time, trade unions at all levels have been interested in organizing many programs and activities to improve the cultural and spiritual lives of employees, and at the same time, promoting propaganda for business owners to well implement care policies for workers. Every year, the Provincial Labor Confederation in collaboration with the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism organizes a festival of enterprises meeting typical and excellent cultural standards with many rich and attractive contents, attracting a large number of employees at enterprises to participate. Thereby, creating cohesion, exchange, experiences learning and promote the emulation movement to build cultural enterprises. At the same time, raise standards of cultural behaviors for employees.

 In particular, in recent years, the movement to build cultural lives among workers has made positive changes. Every year, enterprises have launched many emulation movements and received enthusiastic responses from workers such as: movement to promote technical innovation initiatives; building a culture of safety at enterprises… Enterprises create favorable conditions for trade unions organizations to organize contests, cultural, artistic and sports activities for workers.

 It can be seen that building corporate culture will create good links and interactions among employers and employees. On the other hand, it also promotes productivity and labor efficiency. The living standards of employees will be improved if enterprises have sustainable development. However, besides the businesses that perform well, there are still businesses that have not really focused on building culture at the enterprises, lacking responsibility in taking care of lives, salaries, bonuses, social insurance … for employees.​​​​