Shinsegae Food Selected as an 'Excellent Labor-Management Culture Company' by the Ministry of Employment and Labor

[Asia Economy Reporter Seungjin Lee] Shinsegae Food announced on the 5th that it has been selected as an ‘Excellent Company in Labor-Management Culture’ for 2021, hosted by the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

The ‘Excellent Company in Labor-Management Culture’ is a program implemented by the Ministry of Employment and Labor since 1996 to promote cooperative labor-management culture and strengthen corporate competitiveness. Each year, workplaces that have exemplary labor-management culture based on labor-management partnership are selected. This year, despite the COVID-19 situation, evaluations were conducted on labor-management win-win cooperation culture and inter-company cooperation, selecting a total of 37 companies including 12 large corporations, 19 small and medium enterprises, and 6 public institutions.

Shinsegae Food has focused on three core values: ‘a company where employees are happy,’ ‘a company that grows together with partner companies,’ and ‘a company that fulfills social responsibility,’ striving to develop labor-management culture. To strengthen communication among employees, which was lacking due to COVID-19, it created opportunities to empathize with management status through online video conferences directly involving executives and staff, as well as in-house broadcasts called ‘Communication Space’ using YouTube. Mobile surveys have been actively used as a channel to collect opinions between labor and management.

Moreover, despite the difficult business environment caused by COVID-19, Shinsegae Food was highly recognized for its achievements in exemplary labor-management relations, including organizational culture innovation activities linked with external professional institutions, human resource development programs for employees, industry-leading welfare and benefit systems, support for a safe working environment, and development of employee consideration systems.

A Shinsegae Food official said, “This selection as an ‘Excellent Company in Labor-Management Culture’ was possible because labor and management empathized with the necessity of building organizational culture based on trust and practiced efforts to overcome difficulties caused by COVID-19,” adding, “Going forward, based on the goal of growing together with employees and the company, we will create Shinsegae Food’s unique beautiful advanced organizational culture and strengthen corporate competitiveness through it.”

Meanwhile, this is the second time Shinsegae Food has been selected as an ‘Excellent Company in Labor-Management Culture,’ following 2006. Additionally, Shinsegae Food has maintained certification since being selected as a ‘Family-Friendly Company’ by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family in 2012, and in 2017, it was selected as an excellent family-friendly company and received a Prime Minister’s commendation.

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