{"id":1087138,"date":"2022-05-14T12:34:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T12:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/14\/treat-employees-well-vodafone-ceo\/"},"modified":"2022-05-14T12:34:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T12:34:36","slug":"treat-employees-well-vodafone-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/14\/treat-employees-well-vodafone-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Treat employees well\u2014Vodafone CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Accra, May 14, GNA \u2013 Mrs Patricia Obo Nai, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Vodafone Ghana Limited, has entreated managers or leaders of organisations and businesses to treat employees well with respect towards sustainability of businesses.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIf you go to meet people in your organisation, say good morning to the driver, the security man, everybody. You are the CEO and so what? Be nice to everyone, you don\u2019t know when you may need somebody\u2019s help. An ethical leader carries respect and also has respect for all others,\u201d she said.\u202f<\/div>\n
She gave the advice while delivering a lecture at the Ashesi University on the topic: \u201cSustainable Leadership and Ethics.\u201d \u202f<\/div>\n
Mrs Obo-Nai said every organisation that drove progress prioritised the welfare of employees as well as their needs.\u202f<\/div>\n
\u201cAt Vodafone, we give four months of maternity leave, 30 hours of paid free time to new mothers, and they close at 15:00 hours for six months on full salary and we give four months of leave to our male employees who fathers a child on surrogacy, among others.\u202f<\/div>\n
\u201cThat makes the employees feel you care for them beyond making profit and it encourages them to put in their best for the organisation. A lot of companies are just interested in profit and don\u2019t care about the wellbeing of their employees and that poses a great threat to the progress of the business,\u201d she said.\u202f<\/div>\n
The CEO noted that the leadership one provided would be remembered in future, adding: \u201cThe impacts you make, the lives you transform and touch as well as the way you show concern to people will be remembered.\u201d\u202f<\/div>\n
Mrs Obo-Nai told the students to be visionary if they wanted to become leaders to be able to move their organisations or followers towards greater heights\u202f<\/div>\n
\u201cThis is necessary and you should also have understanding on why your organisation exists, and drive a sustainable passion,\u201d she added. \u202f<\/div>\n
Speaking on sustainability, the CEO said any serious company\u202flooked for investors to grow the business and ensured that the company\u2019s operations did not deplete the environment, asking: \u201cIn your company, do you encourage the re-use of plastics and do you consciously try to stop polluting the environment?\u201d\u202f<\/div>\n
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Mrs Obo-Nai entreated leaders to ensure that their organisations fitted into any testing situation of nature, society or the economy not to threaten the organisation. \u202f<\/div>\n
\u201cAt Vodafone, now some employees report to work twice a week since the outbreak of the COVID-19 but still are very productive. When times are changing, be flexible and change and challenge yourselves in order to remain productive,\u201d she said.<\/div>\n
Mrs Obo-Nai asked the students to prioritise the inclusion for all agenda with special focus on promoting\u202fgender equality, while including persons with disability and other marginalised groups like refugees should they be in leadership positions one day.<\/div>\n
The integrity of every leader was crucial as it was a key characteristic to make subordinates and stakeholders trust the leader, she said.<\/div>\n
\u201cPut your moral principles first wherever you are so people don\u2019t get confused about it and let people know what you stand for,\u201d she advised.<\/div>\n
She also admonished all leaders to be transparent and desist from telling lies to their employees and subordinates, saying: \u201cNever lie to your workers because if you hide something from them, they will find out one day and won\u2019t trust you again.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Accra, May 14, GNA \u2013 Mrs Patricia Obo Nai, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Vodafone Ghana Limited, has entreated managers or leaders of organisations and businesses to treat employees well with respect towards sustainability of businesses. \u201cIf you go to meet people in your organisation, say good morning to the driver, the security man, everybody. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1087140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[650,380,1595,13509],"class_list":["post-1087138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-ceo","tag-employees","tag-treat","tag-wellvodafone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}