| We believe in creating and maintaining a performance-based culture. To us, performance is not just about what our staff achieve, but also how they do it – we put equal emphasis on both results and behaviour.
Functional Excellence
With this in mind, we run ‘functional excellence’ programmes across a range of areas from medical to marketing to administration, to help our staff develop themselves and their careers. The programmes are based on job-specific competencies that our employees need to meet in order to do their job well.
The success of these programmes, for both our staff and the company, is based on good management practices. We invest time and energy to ensure all our team leads become good people managers who can provide constant feedback and coaching to their staff.
Core Bristol-Myers Squibb Behaviours
To help Bristol-Myers Squibb achieve high performance, our employees need to display these attributes:
- leads strategically
- builds alignment
- communicates directly
- drives performance
- collaborates
- energises others
- develops people
These 'core behaviours' guide our daily activities and help build a performance culture with the highest level of integrity, honesty and ethics.
Our pledge to our colleagues
We pledge personal respect, fair compensation and honest and equitable treatment. To all who qualify for advancement, we will make every effort to provide opportunity. We affirm our commitment to foster a globally diverse workforce and company wide culture that encourages excellence, leadership, innovation and a balance between our personal and professional lives. We acknowledge our obligation to provide able and humane leadership and a clean and safe work environment.
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