Shell Canada

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Shell Canada Limited is one of Canada's largest integrated oil companies. The corporation's head offices are in Calgary and Alberta. Lead by Mr. W. Adrian Loader, Shell Canada Ltd employs 4772 people worldwide and added over 600 new full-time positions in 2006 (see Appendix 2 for more data about Shell's workforce). Last year revenues were over $2 billion. It is subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell and is owned by Shell Investments Limited for 78% and the last 22% are owned by public shareholders (Energy Business Review: Shell Canada). In 1907, the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company (Nederlands) and the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company Ltd (U.K.) merged to create the Royal Dutch/Shell Group. Four years after, the company opened a plant in Montreal, Canada with a capital of $1 million and only six employee. Today, the company has three main business divisions. The "Exploration and Production" business unit explores for and produces natural gas and natural gas liquids, and is Canada's largest sulfur producer. The "Oil Sands" business extracts and produces bitumen. The "Oil Products" business unit manufactures, distributes and markets refined petroleum products, and provides crude oil to Shell's refineries to make fuel, gasoline, lubricants and petrochemicals. These products are sold through approximately 1,800 stations across Canada.

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[...] But people can be driven by their emotions and feelings toward the others and their assessment can be biased for personal reasons. Thus, both honesty and integrity must be valued when giving feedback, and settling personal scores should be punished Empowerment Shell Canada adopts some success factors of empowerment. Employees need the skills and training to manage risks and decision making: Shell provides tuition for outside personal interest courses. Sharing responsibility means sharing in the rewards: Shell proposes performance-based additional pay. Empowerment requires sharing of information: Shell reports openly on its economic (financial report), environmental (sustainable development report) and social performance. [...]

[...] degree for example Corporate governance a. Physical Workplace Shell Canada places health and safety as primary importance at every work locations. It safety record is among the best in the industry. Injury frequencies are measured each year and 2006 was a record (but the objective was not reached, see Appendix 4). Shell's motto for each day in 2007 is "Target Zero": with increasing risks in activities, goals are zero injuries, spills, gas releases, and process incidents. As a part of safety campaigns, managers propose several safety meetings during the year (in people attended these meetings), (Shell Canada website: Employee and Contractor Health and Safety). [...]

[...] These products are sold through approximately 1,800 stations across Canada. Shell's corporate goal is "leadership in profitability and profitable growth, within the framework of sustainable development" (Shell Canada website: Sustainable Development Report 2003). II. Employment environment analysis For the seventh year, Mediacorp Canada has named Shell Canada among Canada's top 100 employers, which makes the company even more attractive to applicants and strengthens employees' loyalty. The competition evaluates 14,000 employers on eight areas: Physical Workplace Work Atmosphere & Social Health, Financial & Family Benefits Vacation & Time Off Employee Communications Performance Management Training & Skills Development Community Involvement Some of these areas will be used to assess Shell Canada's employment environment. [...]

[...] But Shell emphasizes too much on community and not enough on individuals. Besides, things could be done for improving the working environment since part of activities can be very stressing. The company provides a good flexibility but does not propose lots of options for just relaxing. People can do sport at the fitness centre, or be involved in charitable activities. But what can they do just for themselves? Employees need time for themselves and companies are not always able to offer them what they expect. [...]

[...] Shell's four core values are an example: belief in people, trust, excellence and alignment. They believe in people because they are a key factor to success, and thus they communicate honestly, they delegate, and train and reward them. They value trust and integrity through their code of ethics and a strong commitment to diversity and sustainable development. But in return, they expect their employees to "see themselves a part of Shell Team" (Shell Canada website: Shell Canada's Core Values) and target excellence as well as they do. [...]