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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.
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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