Neste Oil, an oil company listed on the stock market which made more than €12 billion in sales in 2007, is the first Finnish private company to win the equality prize, awarded every year to a model public or private company in this field. On December 31, 2007, it employed 4.810 people, of which more than 3.600 work in Finland, mostly in the refining industry, gas supply, and specialized production such as biofuels. This article is the first of a series dedicated to corporate practices regarding HR important issues. (Ref. 080252)
Diagnostic
phase. Before 2006, nothing predisposed Neste for
an award in the field of equality. As the company’s managers willfully admit,
the equality issue didn’t exist in the company, either for the management of
for the employees and their representatives. In fact, the strengthening of the
law on equality in 2005 led the company to reexamine its statistics concerning
the staff, to divide them according to gender, and to discover an unpleasant
truth : the situation was very disadvantageous f
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