On April 9, the “Project of the Year Award 2013” was presented by the Latvian Personnel Management Association (hereinafter referred to as LPVA), which is the highest assessment in the field of personnel management in Latvia. This year, Cēsu alus brewery won the award for the excellent implementation of the large-scale and long-term project “Together on the road to the goal”.
The project of the year award is presented for excellently implemented projects in the field of personnel management in Latvian companies – employee development and training, employee selection, improvement of the motivation and remuneration system, increase in efficiency, etc.
The goal of the Cēsu alus project “Together towards the goal” was to improve employee involvement in the development of the company, satisfaction and motivation, which allows to become an excellent employer.
Eva Selga, Chairman of LPVA’s Board: “LPVA’s Project of the Year Award is a way we try to reward our colleagues for good, interesting and innovative projects in the field of personnel management. I am glad that there are more and more of these projects every year.”
Daiga Ozoliņa – Punāne, head of Cēsu alus personnel department: “Increasing employee satisfaction, increasing knowledge about the company, improving work efficiency are just some of the directions in which we have worked and will continue to work within the project. The greatest satisfaction is the 100% involvement of all Cēsu alus employees during the project, which allowed employees to be maximally involved in creating a workplace that everyone is proud of!”
Eva Sietiņsone – Zatlere, chairperson of the board of Cēsu alus: “The goal of the Cēsu alus company is to move towards our defined vision – to be the most attractive and respectable beverage production company in Latvia, to achieve this we have defined a personnel management vision. The employees really want to achieve and achieve excellent results. The basis of our success in this project was that we were ready to change everything except our higher values and vision.”
The Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania and Air Baltic AS also received recognition in the final of the LPVA Annual Project Award for innovation in the field of personnel management.
Since 2000, the aim of the award has been to popularize the personnel management industry, to promote favorable competitiveness in Latvian companies, organizations and institutions, by introducing the basic principles and criteria of personnel management in order to emphasize and promote the importance of personnel management in Latvia. The evaluation is carried out by a specially created commission of industry specialists, who, in parallel with project evaluation, also gets to know the company’s management and employees in person.
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LPVA was established in 1996 to promote the popularity of personnel management in Latvia, to raise the competence of personnel management specialists and the prestige of this position in the labor market, as well as to show the positive impact of effective personnel management work on the successful operation of companies. Currently, the association unites more than 220 members, mainly various Latvian companies and organizations.
Daiga Ozoliņa, head of Cēsu alus’s personnel department – Punāne, and Eva Selga, president of LPVA
