Our Employees
Engaging Our Employees
Overview
As a company in a highly competitive and rapidly-changing industry, we need to share information and foster understanding with employees, quickly and effectively.
Teamwork is what makes us tick. We strive to have a truly ‘open door’ culture at Hasbro, where people feel confident to talk freely with their managers and colleagues as well as having more formal channels of communication. Managers schedule regular one-on-ones as well as departmental team meetings. Many senior managers bring their larger teams together quarterly to share developments in the wider business and discuss the department’s achievements and next steps.
Communication from Senior Leadership
One-way communication is failed communication. We actively seek feedback, for example by encouraging employees at our State of the Company quarterly earnings address to ask questions of senior leadership on the state of the company and industry. Following these meetings, we convene smaller groups to further explore our performance. In addition, our monthly “Lunches with Leadership” allows employees to join the senior most executives for lunch to discuss all aspects of our business including questions around strategy, challenges, or thoughts around person career growth.
In 2010, reflecting our increasingly globalized operations, all employees worldwide assembled for a meeting with senior leadership to review Hasbro’s future goals and business plan.
Our senior executives also regularly join town hall meetings held at Hasbro offices around the globe. In 2011, executives discussed business initiatives firsthand with employees in Brazil, China, Columbia, Italy, Mexico, Russia and Singapore.
Senior managers from Europe also update employee representatives from Hasbro’s major European locations on business developments through the Hasbro European Employees Forum (HEEF), an annual event. Similar events have been held in Asia Pacific and Latin America.