How would you describe the culture?

Hi Shan – Thank you for this question. In my opinion, Nokia provides a best-in-class environment within which to grow both personally and professionally. For example, Nokia’s employee culture welcomes and embraces people as their true selves. Nokia embraces the value of diversity for business success and supports the needs of all its employees - including a focus on gender and on its minority populations. Inclusion, ethics, integrity, and respect for others are important at Nokia; they represent how we view ourselves and help guide our interactions with colleagues and customers. Nokia’s culture and ethical standards set clear expectations on how we treat people, collaborate, and conduct business with all our customers, partners, and employees. Nokians do not tolerate unethical behavior. If we observe what we believe to be an unethical practice, we are supported to voice our concerns, without fear of retaliation. Nokia’s Code of Conduct expresses our individual and collective commitment to ethical behavior – as part of our work, and for everything we do. As a global corporation, we are aware of cultural differences among employees, we understand that our priority is to support in common the business goals of Nokia, and we grow and learn from working with colleagues who may have different backgrounds than our own.

Nokia’s multi-cultural teams work closely together to achieve its business goals. Nokia focuses on the most important environmental (e.g., instructions, tools, relevant and frequent supervisor feedback, incentives, etc.) and individual factors (e.g., training, professional development opportunities, mandated frequent one-on-one meetings between employees and line manager) to help assure its employees’ individual and collective workplace success. As an example of Nokia’s commitment to ethics, from the beginning, newly hired employees are instructed that conducting work ethically and in compliance with the law and company policies is essential. New employees at Nokia are expected to bookmark Nokia’s Ethics & Compliance website, read the Nokia Code of Conduct, complete Nokia’s Ethical Business Training course (and other compliance training applicable to the employee’s job role), discuss applicable Nokia policies and procedures with their manager, review the ethics & compliance policies and standard operating procedures & processes applicable to the employee’s job role, and to learn where and how to report ethics and compliance concerns. Nokia additionally provides a large library of ethics training titles through Nokia Learning (its premier learning and development organization).

As a minority employee, I’ve lived Nokia’s unique commitment to the role of diversity in business success and respect its unwavering support of the needs of every Nokian – geography, ethnicity, and gender notwithstanding. Nokia was recognized as a “Best Places to Work” 2021 Corporate Equality Index 100% Score and 2021 Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality. It is uplifting to me that Nokia, as a global company with multi-cultural teams working closely together, supports the specific needs of its employees and helps Nokia’s efforts to build and maintain more equal and inclusive work environments. For example, Nokia partners with its employee organizations such as StrongHer US Women’s Leadership Network, HISPA (Hispanic Association of Nokia Employees), ABLE (Advancing Black Leadership and Excellence), IDEAL (Individuals Dedicated to Enabling Accessibility in Life), 4A (Asian/Pacific American Association for Advancement), and others such as EQUAL! (supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer employees and their friends and family), LUNA (United Native Americans of Nokia), and VALOR (supporting U.S. military veterans and those currently serving).

In summary, at Nokia, we’re open, fearless, and empowered. All Nokia employees, regardless of job level, are encouraged to speak up – where the voice of every Nokia employee is important. In the words of our chief executive Pekka Lundmark, "In those areas we choose to compete, we will play to win,". Nokia’s winning attitude is guided by its culture, which emphasizes integrity, inclusiveness, and innovation.

Thank you again for the question. I hope that you found my response helpful.