Management Style

The company follows the management style based on the principles of innovation, cooperation, flexibility and respect to employees’ opinion, aims at improving its managerial and organizational structure.

The company’s management is realized on the basis of mutual understanding, accurate problems’ statement and monitoring of their fulfillment. The management provides all conditions for the employees’ well-coordinated work oriented to achievement of the set goals.

The company uses an accurate subordination and reporting structure, regulations of each organization department as well as rights and liabilities (job description) of each employee are given in detail.

The task of the manager is to provide a balance between the employee’s liabilities for the given work and to vest the employee with respective authorities, access to necessary information and optimal distribution of work.

Business ethics

The key to the company’s success lies in effective teamwork. There is no place for individualism, lack of appropriate attention to each other and absence of mutual support, provoking conflict situations among the staff.

The managers at all level are obliged to:

• develop within their staff a sense of belonging to Yuzhnoye Design Office great achievements, creating a team of like-minded people aimed to attainment of the company’s long-range goals;

• take care of their staff’s needs;
• award only the employees who deserves it;
• respect the dignity of the employees;
• take responsibilities for making a key decision;
• stimulate innovation;
• take into account that the employees want to use their professional skills in cooperation with them.

The company’s employees are obliged to:

• respect professional competence of each other;
• be tolerant of other people behavior;
• coordinate personal goals with the company’s;
• be sure that their work brings benefits not only to them, but to the company as well;
• recognize the need for both competition and cooperation;
• take measures to remove obstacles that prevent from the work being done well and inform their immediate supervisor or their hierarchical superior about such cases at once, and keep themselves away from actions that can cause the company’s financial loss and property damage;
• act in the interest of the company during working hours. If there is no opportunity for an employee to receive the order how to solve a problem, the employee is obliged to act to the utmost in the interests of the company.

Communication between the management and the staff

The management provides the employees with comfortable workplace, equipped with everything that is necessary for the employees to be productive at work, formulates job descriptions.

The management has to organize the staff correctly taking into account their knowledge, specialty and qualification, defines objectives and provides the staff with workload during the working day.

An employee of the company is obliged to:

– work with honesty and conscientiousness;

– carry out his/her functions;

– take responsibilities for his/her results;

– maintain labor discipline;

– follow the company’s rule of conduct;

– execute the management’s and immediate supervisor’s order;

– use working hours efficiently;

– refrain from activities that have the potential of hindering other employees from his/her functions.

  If an employee did not execute the supervisor’s order, the latter is obliged to take appropriate measures against the employee action in accordance with internal working rules.

The employees do not have to leave their workplace during working hours without obtaining permission from their immediate supervisor or their hierarchical superior. Each employee has to keep his workplace in order and comply with determinate order of keeping documents and material assets.

Confidential Information

When starting work with Yuzhnoye SDO the employee assumes legal and ethical nondisclosure obligations as for confidential and commercial classified information even if thereafter he will make a decision to leave the company.

The company’s employee must build his relations with the Customer on the principles of providing necessary information, but not to disclose information obtained on confidential basis and use it for the benefit of other contractors and Customers.

Conflict of Interests

The company’s employees and managers must not be involved in activities which may result in conflict of the company’s interests or may be considered as such conflict, as well as they must not use the company, its reputation and information for the purpose of their own or other persons’ gain.

In case of situation which, in the employee’s opinion, may result in conflict of interests, the employee must be guided by the following principles:

• Avoid the conflict of interests;
• While making decisions on business matters one must be guided by interests of the company solely;
• Not to use any confidential or in-house company’s information for personal financial or other benefit as well as other natural or legal person’s benefit;
• In case of probable conflict of interests this matter must be discussed with a direct chief and the employee must act in accordance with regulations of these rules;
• The company does not prevent from participation of its employees in labor activities in other organizations, in civil activities and shows sympathetic understanding of commercial activities realized by certain employees.

At that:

• The employee must inform his direct chief on the supposed parallel work, especially related to commercial activities, in a written form. If the chief (manager) decides that such activity will result in conflict of interests then the employee has no right to combine this activity with his work at the company;
• Each employee involved in commercial activities must be sure that these activities do not harm the company’s image or financial interests in any form;
• The employee must not allow negative effect of activities outside the company on performance of his direct obligations at the company;

The employee may be involved in activities not related to the company’s activities only in off-hours and according to regulations of these rules.

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