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Our way of working

We want to enable our people to actively participate and collaborate, to take both ownership of their work and responsibility for everyone’s safety. Nokian Tyres supports flexible working time and arrangements when possible. The company follows local legislation related to flexible working hours, overtime, part-time working options, and paid parental and family leave. The modern working environment with digital tools helps teams to flexibly organize their work and supports the individual well-being of employees.  

To support the modern and flexible way of working and employee well-being, we promote collaboration and open dialog throughout the entire organization.

two Nokian Tyres employees discussing in front of a laptop
Creating a more flexible working culture

Our people development philosophy supports our employees’ development with an internal job rotation, on-the-job learning, and various development solutions following the 70–20–10 principle: 70 percent of the development through learning on the job, 20 percent through learning from others, and 10 percent through training. A group of employees has been trained to create online courses in the company’s e-learning management system based on business needs.

As digital has become the primary way of working, the need for information security skills has grown. We have continued developing information security capabilities and employee awareness.

Pay for performance

Nokian Tyres’ Total Rewards Philosophy and Guideline forms a consistent framework for retaining, recognizing, and rewarding employees. The guideline’s principles have been defined to support the company’s goal of cultivating an engaged and high-performing organization and to help ensure fair and equal treatment of employees across the organization.

Rewards offer competitive packages, including both monetary and non-monetary elements, to support performance, motivation, and commitment. The monetary elements include a base salary, benefits, and different types of incentives.

At Nokian Tyres, base salary setting follows collective agreements as well as local market practices based on defined job architecture. All employees belong in the short-term incentive program.

People reviews and learning
People Review discussions (including goal setting, performance evaluation and individual development planning) are an important part of leadership work. The agreed goals and development plans are followed up on throughout the year as part of regular one-to-one discussions and team meetings. The People Review discussions cover our entire personnel regardless of gender or staff group, and in 2025, 92 percent of our employees had People Review discussions with their manager, which has been documented.
 
We use also 360 degree assessments, peer-feedback, coaching and various internal and external trainings for development. In recent years we have, for example, organized cultural education to foster collaboration with our new colleagues in Romania, piloted leadership training for new managers, and had AI workshops for teams to support the utilization of new digital tools. We have had lean training (KPO) for several consecutive years, including Kaizen event training. These lean trainings have shown quantitative business impacts – for example, the waste level at the Finnish passenger car tire factory decreased by 15 percent from 2022 to 2024. In production, most training programs cover also part-time employees and contractual employees instead of being limited to only full-time employees.
 
In 2025, Nokian Tyres also continued Leadership Growth Track, a training program for managers. Leadership Growth Track aims to enable participants to develop their self-awareness and cultivate a growth mindset through shared learning sessions, individual development plans, and peer support.