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 to 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 support to their families, through the education of their children.
The General Manager of CRSG, Xinguo Du, thanked all staff for their hard work and dedication in 2021. In his address during the event, the GM said, โThe team of staff for each project, consisting of highly dedicated employees, have overcome all kinds of adversities, including the prevention and control of COVID-19. โThey 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. โWe hope that those employees that have not won the prizes will thrive to identify areas within themselves that need improvement, strengthen their on the job learning/training, replicate the examples of those employees honored today and strive for an improved performance in the future. CRSG will continue to pay attention to the technical training and capacity building of local staff, and play an important role in further deepening the traditional friendship and partnership between China and Sierra Leone.” said by the General Manager.
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 among Chinese and Sierra Leonean 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.
This year, the company has set up education bursaries to provide educational support for the children of employees that make outstanding contributions. This award ensures employees experience the warmth and care of the company, but also ease employees’ family burdens.
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.
