With our Business Strategy 2030, we have set clear goals for the coming years. This strategy serves as a guide and is intended to provide orientation in our daily activities – but it is only part of the whole. Achieving our goals depends above all on implementation. And this is where our corporate culture plays a key role. It determines how we interact with each other, how we make decisions, and how we solve tasks. To better understand how our culture is perceived today – across WIKA – we decided to conduct this culture survey and initiated an intensive global exchange.

In the first step, above all, clarity. Corporate culture is always there, but it is difficult to grasp. Through the culture survey, we will arrive at a collaborative picture of our current culture and gain clarity about the requirements for a future culture.

In doing so, we are laying the foundation for WIKA’s further development. If we want to achieve our corporate goals in 2030, our corporate values and culture must be aligned with our strategy. The results of the culture survey will be the starting point for further developing our culture and values to this end and creating the necessary framework conditions to promote innovation, for example.

The fact that the perception of our culture can vary around the world has played an important role from the very beginning. For this reason, we established core teams with representatives from the individual regions at an early stage.

These core teams were involved in the preparation of the culture survey to identify the special features of the respective regions, for example the particular history of a site or its role within the WIKA Group. These aspects are not only taken into account when conducting the survey, but above all when interpreting the results and subsequently deriving specific needs for action. Therefore, the core teams continue to be involved as experts for their region.