Text version scenario

We want to build an ethical, transparent culture together with our employees. However, manager behavior and attitudes might compromise our aspirations to be better.

This example highlights the dilemma.

An employee is eager to broaden her experience and has applied for an open position at a high profile project in another region. After the first interview, both the hiring manager and the employee are positive to continue the process.

In line with the Internal Recruitment Policy, the employee informs her manager about her ambitions.

The manager wishes her good luck and will of course participate as a reference.

At the same time, the manager underscores that her career possibilities in the current region might be limited if she continues her pursuit of the other position. Commitment to the customers, and getting a solid experience and knowledge of the current region is of great importance to be able to take on larger roles. Now, it seems like the employee is more attracted by a project elsewhere.

In addition, her specialized skills are critical to the current project. Her team will struggle to complete the project on time and on budget if she should leave.

Discussion question

• Have you experienced hinder for internal mobility?
• How did you approach it?
• What did you learn from it?

Things to consider

We can learn from these situations. They can help us apply foresight when truly living our values. We can consider the following actions:

• Build trusting relationships between employee/manager that help you have transparent dialogues about career development including options outside of your own unit, region, district or project.
• Discuss and clarify how the manager should act if/when an employee has an interest in a new position within Skanska.
• Discuss our values pro-actively and how living our values not only help an employee’s career development, but they can positively affect Skanska’s ability to deliver results to our customers by creating more diverse teams

For more guidance go to Skanska Group Internal Recruitment Policy.