IKEA: The swedish design factory - really a family- and employee friendly company?

IKEA: The swedish design factory - really a family - and employee friendly company?

Outline

1. Introduction

2. data and facts of the home furnishing giant

3. IKEA Vision and business culture

4. Family-and employee friendliness

4.1 Eployee attitude survey

5. scandal and criticism

6. Conclusion

Thinking of...

1. Introduction

COME ON IN!

But what is IKEA really? – a swedish company? – No, IKEA is a complicated network of holdings, and beneficence in possess of a dutch-foundation (SIF Stichting Ingka Foundation)

Sources

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1. Introduction

6. Conclusion

1. Introduction

Shopping at IKEA is an adventure

http://www.news.de/wirtschaft/855027773/der-gutmuetige-drache-aus-schweden/1/

http://www.jobvoting.de/voting/singleview.php?uid=1566&firma=Ikea

http://abw.diemucha.at/index.php/ueber-uns/853-award-familienfreundlich-handeln-2010

http://www.ikea.com/ms/de_DE/about_ikea/facts_and_figures/index.html

http://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/handel-dienstleister/ddr-zwangsarbeiter-klagt-ikea-an-die-bedingungen-waren-menschenunwuerdig/6588566.html

-> the whole package

Sordid details and stories of spying on workers or hard negotiations with furnishers are barely known

4. Family-and employee friendliness

2. Data and facts

This shows the international sales development from 2006 to 2011:

IKEA Germany:

Developmet:

-began in 1943 in the small village Agunnardy sweden

-Ingvar Kamprad was 17 years old

2011:

-131.000 employees in 41 countries

-sale enfolded 24.7 billion euros

All stores in Germany:

-finished the business year 2011 with a business volume of 3.65 billion

-German CEO: Peter Betzel

Number of employees and its development from 2004 to 2011

2. Data and facts

5. Scandal and criticism

2. Data and facts

3. IKEA Vision and business culture

1. IKEA preys on taxes-holes

-SIF helps to avoid taxes

-is exempted from taxes (Netherlands)

-SIF uses all instruments to minimize or avoid taxes

-payment of taxes is a central aspect of social business responsibility

Vision: -create a better everyday life for the many people

Business idea: -offer a wide range of well designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them

BILLY

--> most sold shelf

design

Self-perception:

functionality

2. workers have to work while illness

small price

4. Family-and employee friendliness

3. IKEA Vision and business culture

employee friendliness

IKEA

„How long does this madness continue? The staff is working at their limit every day, working over time and working while illness is seen as normal and gets expected by the management.“

customer friendliness

family friendly and fond of children:

-most wanted audience: -young families with children and students

sustainability

like Schlecker, Lidle and Aldi?

5. Scandal and criticism

-among the first home furnishing companies that offered childcare and was awarded extremely high customer friendliness

Employee friendliness:

On their website it says : "We offer open-minded and honest people the possibility to develop themselves on a personal and professional level in order to create a better everyday life for us and our customers."

4. Family-and employee friendliness

3. Spying on workers

4.1 Employee attitude survey

-in france IKEAS employees were spied on without the agreement of the work council

- illegal journals about workers’ health statuses were made

"Are you still alive or are you already working?"

nice staff, for the first view a good working atmosphere and fair benefits

5. Scandal and criticism

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a bad pay, IKEA uses just the retail collective agreement, thin staffing level, no good work-life balance regarding family, free time and holiday planning, working times between 9-21 hours

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