China Railway Seventh Group (SL) Co., Ltd (CRSG) held its Annual Commendation Meeting for Employee of the Year on January 20th 2022. In attendance were one hundred and thirty four(134) dedicated staff members,representing the civil engineering, mining, trade, administration, security and support staff units, to witness their colleagues being commended for excellent service. The management presented the winners with certificates of honor and prizes such as cash, rice, cooking oil and milk powder.
In addition to the awards for outstanding managers and employees, CRSG also distributed awards for outstanding contributions; advanced employees in safe production;active employees; scholarships for outstanding managers; and outstanding work teams. This gesture goes to illustrate all employees that their long term future lies within CRSG fold, as well as to foster a healthy, positive and harmonious working environment for all. The company appreciates and values those employees that have made outstanding contributions to CRSG. As a result, CRSG seeks to incentivize these by supporting their families and their children’s education.
This year, the company has set up scholarships to provide groundbreakingeducational support for the children of employees who make outstanding contributions. This scholarship ensures employees experience the warmth and care of the company, but also ease employees’ family burdens.
Alhassan Bangura, representative of the winning employees, said in his speech: “I am very grateful to China Railway Seventh Group for providing quality jobs for the employees in Sierra Leone. It can help employees’ families live a better life. I am proud to be a management staff within CRSG. This recognition provides encouragement for employees and can make us more motivated and passionate in executing our functions. I will encourage other employees to learn the company’s regulations, improve our personal skills and enhance the overall quality, so as to contribute to the better, faster and stronger development of this company.”
For more than 10 years, CRSG has been committed to building a culture of mutual respect and understanding and siblinghoodamongexpatriate and national employees by promoting the development of overseas markets and localization management. CRSG has provided thousands of job opportunities, trained a number of highly skilled staff and management personnel. The company also pays attention to the development and growth of employees, cares for their families, helps employees in time of need and tries its best to protect employees during public health emergencies like Ebola and COVID-19 epidemics. CRSG actively explores localization and cross-cultural management of foreign employees and has found a way of overseas operation and development that suits its own business module and meets the common vision of the company and employees.
It is reported that CRSG has formed a perfect staff incentive system of summary, evaluation, selection and commendation and will hold commendation ceremony annually. This will help raise the enthusiasm of employees and strengthen communication, interaction and team cohesion.
“The companyappreciates all staff for your hard work and dedication in 2021. The team of staff for each project,consisting ofhighly dedicated employees, have overcome all kinds of adversities, including the prevention and control of COVID-19.You have also worked together to successfully accomplish the production and operation tasks, goals and targets and for that, all of your work deserves recognition and appreciation.”
“We hope that all recipients of the awards will cherish the honor, maintain an excellent working attitude and drive other staff to emulate their achievements that will ultimately result in the development of the company. We hope that those employees that have not won the prizes will thrive to identify areas within themselves that need improvement, strengthen themselves on the job learning/training, replicate the examples of those employees honored today and strive for an improved performance in the future.”
“By constantly upgrading the skills of employees and promoting hard work and dedication, CRSG will continue to focus on providing high quality projects and professional services to the people and country of Sierra Leone and pay more attention to the technical training and capacity building of local staff.A famous saying expressed this view most incisive: God helps those who help themselves. At the same time, CRSG will continue to carry forward the “family” culture as the core of the company’s culture, and create a good atmosphere of “the company regards employees as relatives, and employees regard the company as family.” and play an important role in further deepening the traditional friendship and partnership between China and Sierra Leone.” said by the General Manager of CRSG.
