The future success of Sika is not only dependent on pursuing the right strategy, but is just as much based on the trust and dedication of all employees. The Sika journey to global leadership is founded on the company's entrepreneurial philosophy and the Sika Spirit.
Our Values & Principles
The Sika Spirit is synonymous with the strong set of values and principles that make up the DNA of our company.
Customer First
We are dedicated to providing and maintaining the highest quality standardswith regard to our products and services.
Our commitment to innovationenables us to not only satisfy current demands, but also anticipatefuture expectations. All Sika solutions are designed with our customers’success in mind and we look to build long-lasting and mutually beneficial relationships rather than focus on short-term business. This attitude is emphasized by our corporate claim: Building Trust.
We are proud and grateful that our commitment to fulfill the promiseof our brand every day has led the Sika triangle, our 100 year old visualsymbol, to become synonymous with performance, quality, reliability andservice worldwide.
Courage for Innovation
Sika’s success and reputation is based on its long-lasting tradition of innovation.Accordingly, the core of our business is our innovation managementand our focus on developing quality products and the best solutions for ourcustomers. We have institutionalized the Sika Product Creation Process with its strong focus on consistently developing new products, systems and solutions for bonding, sealing, damping, reinforcing and protecting inour defined target markets.
By investing in our established technology centers and laboratories across the globe, we benefit from our worldwide network of partners, suppliers and scientists, while fulfilling our promise to be close to our customers everywhere.
Sustainability & Integrity
We take a long-term perspective on the development of our business and we act with respect and responsibility towards our customers, our stakeholdersand our employees. We operate with a strong focus on safety,quality, environment, fair treatment, social involvement, responsiblegrowth, and value creation.
Sustainability is a key component of our drive for innovation. For bothbuildings and motor vehicles we aim to enhance durability and improveboth energy and material efficiency. We consistently make every effort tocontribute to reducing resource consumption both within our own company as well as for our partners who trust in our products. Our initiatives andprogress are organized along the Global Reporting Initiative.
Throughout all this, we put safety first. The well-being and health of ouremployees and partners is a prerequisite to our success. Creating safework environments is always a top priority.
We enhance economic, social and environmental progress in all countries and communities we operate in. Through the Sika Community Engagement Program (“Sika Cares”) and dedicated volunteer work, we are actively supporting social and educational projects in local communities. As a memberof the UN Global Compact we are committed to global sustainable development.
We do not compromise on integrity, and apply high ethical standards to our work.
Sika’s “Code of Conduct” defines our standards and rules of behaviorfor our company and all our employees.
Empowerment & Respect
We believe in the competence and the entrepreneurial spirit of our employees.We foster trustful and respectful working relationships and do not exercise authority in purely formal ways. We enjoy working in close partnership with each other and with our customers, suppliers and stakeholders.
Our working climate is one of aspiration and inspiration. We empower our people to develop and propose new ideas. We delegate decisions and responsibilities to the level of competence.
We aim to implement our organizational units in a manner that is as decentralized as possible and to establish flat organizations with broad spans of control. Training and development of our employees is given high priority.We aim to develop our leaders for tomorrow and we focus on internal candidates for promotions.
Manage for Results
We aim for success and take pride in continuously achieving outstanding results and outperforming our markets. We pursue our vision and targets with persistency and a long-term view.
Within our company we believe in individual responsibilities. Functions and projects are clearly assigned. The overall profit and loss responsibility lies with the General Manager.
Sika has transparent benchmarks for financial performance following a defined strategy. Performance evaluation is based on market share, sales growth, profitability and capital efficiency.