In the 2019 elections, Maxima was one of the two retail companies reaching the top ten companies attracting most attention from job seekers. In total, the top 50 features 12 retail companies. The retail chain was awarded the special electronic Top Employer mark, which confirms that the company was among the employers in 2019, who were prioritised by job seekers.
“We consistently seek to form appealing working conditions for our staff, grant them increasingly better wage and career opportunities. This is also reflected in the Top Employer election results and in the evaluation granted to our company. From second place among retailers for 2018, we rose to first. This is evidence that we are headed in the right direction. At the same time, it is also an important evaluation of our efforts. Particularly considering that this year, the Top Employers were chosen based on the objective criterion of job advert view count,” head of the Maxima retail network Kristina Meidė says.
According to K. Meidė, just for employee incentive bonuses, the retail network allocated a threefold larger budget than in 2018. At the same time, in order to ensure that every employee’s efforts are suitably awarded, there were improvements made to the motivation system model. At the moment, the bonuses received by Maxima store staff, depending on position, reach 52% and food production workshops – 40% of their wages.
“We also invest much into the growth of our staff, their training and increase in their competences. The opportunity to improve and rise in your career is for staff today one of the most important factors when choosing their employer, thus training and special courses are granted to not only starting staff, but also when individual teams or employees feel the need for it. Furthermore, we nurture a culture of constant improvement and learning from one another. Administrative staff travel to work in stores through special programmes, learning new things, understanding certain processes better,” K. Meidė says.
The Maxima head explains that staff from various chains of the retail network are included in the company’s management. The retail network practices distributed leadership, where the company’s leading organ – the Leader Committee – includes the opportunity for Maxima store employees to participate in decision making processes, allowing them to better represent their own interests, implement more horizontal company management principles and make decisions that are more beneficial for the entire organisation.
Last year, Maxima and the company’s employee trade union signed a new collective agreement, which outlines more extra benefits to all of the retail chain’s 15 thousand employees. The new agreement, other than wage, social, economic and professional conditions and guarantees, also outlines extra grants in case of accident, illness, death in the family, support on childbirth, extra paid leave upon marriage and other cases.
The retail network also offers other extra benefits to its staff, such as special discounts when shopping in Maxima stores and making use of partner services, summer camps for employees’ children or even opportunities for free housing.
In the traditional annual CV-Online Top Employer elections, the employers receiving the most attention from employees and candidates were selected based on the annual profile and job offering view results.
About Maxima
The traditional strengths of the Lithuanian retail network Maxima are low prices and a broad selection, particularly of Lithuanian goods. The network’s managing company Maxima LT is the largest Lithuanian capital company, one of the largest tax payers and the largest job creators in the country. Currently, almost two hundred and fifty Maxima stores operate across Lithuania, employing around 15 thousand staff and visited by over 550 thousand clients every day.
