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| Guiding
Principles |
 Our Mission — Kimball
International is a preeminent manufacturer
of furniture, furniture components, and
electronic assemblies, serving customers
around the world. Our customers, both large
and small, receive our undivided attention,
as we treat every one as the only one.
Our work with our customers is integrated
into such an array of products and services
our touch is felt throughout daily life
in both the workplace and in the home.
Kimball builds products, brands, and a
reputation as an ideal place to entrust
your livelihood, whether as a customer,
supplier, employee, or share owner.
Our vision is to advance a new industrial
covenant: immediate access to world-class
design and manufacturing. Our products
will reach end users through many paths,
whether as one of our own brand names that
we market, as a brand that we agree to
provide for a separate company, or as a
component of another product. Regardless
of the Kimball product or whether the customer
is ourselves, a company, or a person, our
covenant will stand firm.
Our unifying bonds across
our company will continue to
be our unique culture and our
shared skills in the development
of efficient, high quality
operations and services. By
fulfilling our vision, we will
emerge as an employer and supplier
of choice. Our name will signal
reliability and quality to
the countless people who use
our products and services,
as well as to the inventors,
designers, and marketers whose
dreams take form in our factories,
and whose success we help build.
We
Build Success!
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Guiding Principles |
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Customers |
- Our customer is our business. We
must provide innovative products
and services that excite our customers
and exceed their expectations of
quality, features and enduring value.
We also must recognize and respond
quickly and creatively to ideas of
others, both internally and externally.
- Long-term customers are more important
than short-term results. We will
promise only what we know can be
delivered; we will strive to deliver
more than was promised.
- We seek to consistently demonstrate
a sense of warmth, humor and mutual
respect in our relationships with
our customers, to be the company
with which they most enjoy working.
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People |
- Our people are the company. Kimball
has been built upon the tradition
of pride in craftsmanship, mutual
trust, personal integrity, respect
for dignity of the individual, a
spirit of cooperation, and a sense
of family and good humor. We seek
to enhance this culture as we grow.
- We cultivate a leadership style
that embraces the attitudes of personal
autonomy and empowerment; individual
initiative and teamwork; employee
involvement and continuous improvement;
and open, non-defensive communication.
- We shall foster an organizational
structure, information systems and
development of personal skills that
maximize our peoples' flexibility
to respond to our customers on their
own terms.
- We want employees to share in their
company's success, both financially
and through personal growth and fulfillment.
- The most unfair system of all is
one that blindly treats all situations
the same. Therefore, we discourage
rigid rules and policies in favor
of a philosophy of individual responsibility
and flexibility, so that real needs,
rather than the rules, are met.
- Offering ideas for improvements
and new products is an opportunity
we all share, a responsibility we
must all accept. We seek to promote
and reinforce an entrepreneurial
spirit -- a conviction that growth
and continuous improvement is everyone's
job.
- We seek a diversified group of
employees who can be committed to
preserving and enhancing these values.
- Suppliers are our partners, an
extension of our company. They must
share our commitment to total quality
that exceeds our customers' expectations.
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Citizenship |
- The environment is our home. We
will be leaders in not only protecting
but enhancing our world.
- Recognizing that an attitude of
pride in the company and the community
are intertwined, we seek to share,
but not impose, our values within
the communities in which we live.
We also strive to help our communities
be great places to live.
- We believe the greatest contribution
we can make to the prosperity and
quality of life of the communities
in which we operate lies in being
a dynamic, growing company.
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Profits |
- Profits are the ultimate measure
of how efficiently and effectively
we serve our customers and are the
only true source of long-term job
security.
- Profitability and financial resources
give us the freedom to shape our
future and achieve our vision.
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