SCG’s innovative culture is a culture supporting useful changes by creating a
working atmosphere at all levels, including praise and rewards bestowed on staff members that
are also involved in innovation development. The said new culture is a culture that assists all
employees in taking initiative and in expressing their views and opinions freely. SCG believes
that the creation of an innovative culture requires support from all levels and determines the
qualifications of the staff for self-development in terms of Inno-People (innovative people).
These are people possessing five characteristics: open minded, thinking out of the box,
assertive, risk taking, and finally, eager to learn. There are three characteristics needed to
enhance the leadership of the management level called Inno-Leader (innovative leader): lead
change through vision and values, facilitate and support change, and execute change by being a
role model.
In the past, SCG used to buy know-how processes from foreign countries, but after
a while, SCG placed importance on initiating things by doing and building a knowledge base by
itself. The HR unit adjusts all relevant personal systems, such as the adjusting the recruitment
system, in order to attract a greater variety of personnel to the system and to have them mingle
or blend into the system, adjusting the appraisal system for both personnel and business
administration at all levels, and adding innovation factors into the performance management
processes for them to correspond with the company’s innovative culture