Lemminkäinen Group

Particular attention is paid to personal development, achieving the right balance between work and leisure time, and occupational health and safety issues.

The changing age structure and retirement of the post-war generation affect the need for labour. Lemminkäinen has focused on developing its image as an employer among young people in particular.

Generational change has been accompanied by a culture change in the expectations set for the employer and the manager. Managerial training and support are one of Lemminkäinen’s focus areas in personnel work. The deep leadership training introduced in some of the Group’s  business sectors has yielded good results, for instance in management skills, and the aim is to enlarge the group of trainees.

Employer-employee relations at Lemminkäinen are sound, and both sides negotiate employment-related issues in good faith. In addition to collaboration in the business sectors, a Group Co-operation Meeting is arranged annually for representatives of management and the employees. Lemminkäinen works actively with labour market organisations, and the Group is strongly represented in the national collective bargaining process. Lemminkäinen has a local pay system for salaried employees that is applied right accross the Group, unique in the business.

Lemminkäinen supports employee training and internal job rotation. The construction sector has a lot of professions for which there are no direct training pathways. For these professions, Lemminkäinen trains newcomers in its own programmes as well as in apprentice-based and other similar professional training schemes. In areas such as building materials production, installation and maintenance work, and specialist professions of the technical building services sector, there are often no other training pathways. Special training in refurbishment work gives professionals the knowledge and skills needed for challenging repair projects. Project know-how is also a key development area for Lemminkäinen.

Lemminkäinen trains personnel for specialist professions in partnership with many outside organisations.

Every year the Group provides young people with summer vacation work, trainee placements and pre-grad work experience opportunities. In 2008, over 500 young people had summer vacation jobs or trainee placements with Lemminkäinen. Seven students did their academic thesis works in the Group.

Management Academy LEKA introduces goal-oriented training to the Group

Management Academy LEKA is a training programme for Lemminkäinen’s managers that covers different aspects of management ranging from personnel management to project management and business expertise.

In addition to LEKA, supplementary management and expert training programme VIILA is also under construction. The content of VIILA is topical training material selected according to need. In 2009 VIILA included management training on competition law and challenging situations.