Vision & Values
Our Vision
By the year 2010, SQM forecasts to have consolidated even stronger its indisputable
leader position as reliable producer and service provider in its three main businesses:
Specialty Plant Nutrition, Iodine and Lithium, thus having been transformed into
a creative source of added value for its customers. This unique business position
is inextricably intertwined with the company's unmatched access to high quality
natural resources, installed capacity and its high flexibility to react rapidly
to sudden changes in market conditions. At the same time, SQM's management continues
being driven by a well-defined set of principles that reflect the company's corporate
culture, including a strong ethical behaviour, a high sense of responsibility towards
the community and the environment, and, the fair treatment of its shareholders,
employees and customers.
Our Values
Values are the fundamental pillars that support all SQM stands for. They are the
basis for our personnel's behaviour and they are our starting point to approach
the market and our target groups. It reflects what the world can expect from SQM
and what we can expect from ourselves.
Our values are translate into important benefits: For our shareholders they are
synonymous of return on investment and productivity; for our customers they mean
innovation, closeness, commitment and quality; and for the community the company
stands for sustained development, that cares about the environment, the security
of the labour force and its social responsibility.
The following values have forged SQM's corporate identity:
Respect
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We value the individual qualities and output capacities of every person we work
with, which enables us to build confidence driven relationships.
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Transparency
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Openness and closeness are the key words in our business language and our major
concern is to be consequent in what we proclaim.
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Participation/Collaboration
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We promote and appreciate that people come forward with ideas, express their opinions
and share their experiences, in order to contribute to our search for creative and
innovative solutions.
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Improvement/Self-criticism
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We are driven to constantly evaluating our behaviour and to confront energetically
the obstacles and difficulties that may arise. We know from experience that this
is the best way to search for new possibilities and solutions.
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Innovation
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We approach our work and our challenges in a creative, different and flexible way,
constantly looking for better solutions and better ways to handle things.
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Austerity
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We seek to deliver excellent results at the lowest cost; we nourish our resources
and we strive to optimise them to obtain even better results.
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Responsability
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We always keep our word to our promises, and always answer for our
deeds.
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Flexibility
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We easily adapt to different situations and we have an open mind towards changes
and propositions from third parties with the will to handle them in the best possible
way.
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