Our organisational characteristics
Nowadays, earnings levels and career prospects are not enough to attract the best candidates for employment. Employees spend a large part of their lives at work. They need to feel that corporate values and ethics are not at odds with their personal values.
As citizens they bring their views about human rights, the environment, and the use safe, ethical products with them to the workplace. Some are active members of churches and religious groups while others belong to human rights organisations or environmental groups. Whatever their personal beliefs, they want to work for a company that not only respects their views as individuals but also respects these views in the broader world.
Rio Tinto listens to the views of employees and takes them into account when formulating Group policy and in implementing these policies wherever we operate. Rio Tinto's objective is to develop and maintain systems and processes that facilitate attracting, retaining and motivating employees at all levels by:
- Providing a challenging work environment with opportunities for promotion and personal development;
- Providing competitive remuneration strategies that align reward with superior performance; and
- Maintaining a reputation as a highly ethical corporate citizen and employer.
We aspire to create and sustain a workplace where:
- Senior staff set standards of performance and behaviour that inspire those around them;
- Employees are encouraged to develop professional personal skills; and
- People respect others and take responsibility for their own behaviour.
The experience of working for Rio Tinto should be an enriching one that carries over into life outside work and beyond the period of employment with the Group.
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