Both job satisfaction and loyalty have increased among the 60 employees at the iron foundry TASSO according to the annual satisfaction survey. Part of the explanation can be found in the continuous focus on improvements, which has led to more visible and present management and weekly safety themes via playing cards.
For the third year in a row, the iron foundry TASSO in Odense has conducted a well-being survey among its 60 employees. As many as 96 percent of the employees have answered the survey, which shows progress in several important areas, including job satisfaction and loyalty.
- We work in a structured way with the results of the survey in close dialog with the individual departments and develop action plans on how to specifically work with different initiatives. One of the things that has made particular progress in this year's survey is the overall management of the company. I think this is partly because we have introduced a system where a representative from the management team attends a board meeting in the individual departments once a month. Here we talk about the overall issues for the entire company, such as the market and order situation, as well as strategy and values, while we also can get direct input from the individual employees, explains Kristian Bundgaard Pedersen, Managing Director at TASSO.
The safety of the many employees at the iron foundry is crucial for both well-being and a good working environment. There are fixed safety procedures in production that place demands on both specific equipment and the behavior of employees in production. Over the past year, there has been an extraordinary focus on safety in everyday life - based on a stack of so-called safety playing cards. 
- We have jointly developed the playing cards with different specific safety topics. At the daily board meetings, an employee draws a playing card twice a week, where the topic can be, for example, forklifts. The task for the day is for everyone to think about and notice what is relevant and important when it comes to working with forklifts in a safe way. The next morning, the team leader collects the various observations from the employees. In this way, the focus on safety has become much more dialog-based and tangible for the employees rather than a soliloquy and a raised finger from the manager, says Anders Schmidt Dideriksen, Production Manager at TASSO.
TASSO is part of one of Northern Europe's largest foundry groups, BIRN Group, which conducts well-being surveys every year in the group's six companies in Denmark, Sweden, Germany and Italy. At group level, job satisfaction and loyalty remain high in the latest survey.
- It is very positive that job satisfaction and loyalty remain high throughout the group. Both are essential factors for job satisfaction. As a group, it is very important to have employees who are happy to go to work and proud when they go home, and the results indicate that this is the case with us. We are also pleased that 92 percent of our more than 700 employees took the time to complete the survey. This gives us a strong starting point for further work with the results, says Claus Beier, Group CEO at BIRN Group.
For more information, please contact:
- Kristian Bundgaard Pedersen, Managing Director, TASSO, mobile: +45 24691490
and e-mail: kbp@tasso.dk - Press service: Trine Kristensen, mobile: +45 29804021 and e-mail: trine@publicity.dk