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Building Our Culture at DB Schenker

January 3, 2018
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How DB Schenker’s corporate culture helps to improve the lives of its employees, customers, and business partners

Defined by Inc., magazine as the shared values, attitudes, standards, and beliefs that characterize members of an organization and define its nature, corporate culture is rooted in an organization’s goals, strategies, structure, and approaches to labor, customers, investors, and the greater community. “As such, it is an essential component in any business’s ultimate success or failure,” Inc. concludes.

Today's workers want to be valued

“What defines a great workplace?” asks Alan Murray in Fortune’s The Pinnacles and Pitfalls of Corporate Culture. “It’s not just free food, generous benefits, and nap pods (although those clearly don’t hurt). You’ll see one word throughout this issue that attempts to capture the essence: culture. Today’s workers are looking for a corporate culture that values them and their contributions.”

It’s all About Culture

Here at DB Schenker, we take our corporate culture very seriously, knowing that it plays a key role in our organizational success, and that of our employees, business partners, and customers.

And we’re not alone:  According to a Bain & Co., study, nearly 70 percent of business leaders agree that culture provides the greatest source of competitive advantage. In fact, more than 80 percent believe an organization that lacks a high-performance culture is doomed to mediocrity. Bain also notes that while business leaders recognize culture’s crucial role, fewer than 10 percent of companies succeed in building a winning culture. And, even those firms that manage to foster high-performance cultures often find them hard to sustain.

Creating Meaningful Opportunities

Marta E. Ramirez, Sr. VP, Human Resources, Americas for Schenker, Inc., says the company takes much pride in its powerful and attractive purpose statement, which states, “We advance businesses and lives by shaping the way our world connects.” According to Ramirez, this seemingly-simple statement lays the foundation for understanding the roles that every individual plays in the firm’s overall success.

Every job is tied to a larger purpose

“Every job within DB Schenker has deep meaning,” says Ramirez, “and is tied to a larger purpose. Sure we move cargo and shipments around the globe, but at the end of the day each one of those moves is connected to that larger purpose.”

That purpose, says Ramirez, is to facilitate and make life better for someone out there—be it a large consumer packaged goods (CPG) firm, a technology manufacturer, or a telecom manufacturer. One large CPG customer, for example, relies on hundreds of DB Schenker employees—situated worldwide—to move its products around the globe, into retail stores, and into people’s homes.

“Our ultimate goal is always to enhance the lives of our customers and of their customers,” says Ramirez. “As a result, everything we do has a greater impact on our society as a whole.”

 

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