Our Industries
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The Five Initiatives
To succeed in your Honeywell career, you’ll need to understand and appreciate the critical role of our Five Initiatives – Growth, Productivity, Cash, People and the Enablers.
Growth
Honeywell’s objective is to achieve profitable growth with emphasis on organic or internal growth, using four pillars of organic growth. The pillars include doing a superb job for our customers every day; superior sales and marketing organization; globalization; and robust, funded technology roadmaps for new products and services.
Productivity
Honeywell has an outstanding track record in driving continuous improvement in support of improved Productivity. We will maintain that level of performance, even as we increase our emphasis on Growth.
Cash
This initiative focuses on driving improvements in working capital, payables, receivables and inventory. Cash is the lifeblood of any business. As we increase cash flow, we can take advantage of opportunities to reinvest in our businesses through strategic acquisitions, technology roadmaps and stock buybacks. The positive impact on employees and shareowners alike is huge.
People
From the Boardroom to the manufacturing floor, we focus on having the best people organized the right way, and motivated. At Honeywell, employees are given opportunities to learn, grow, and develop and they are rewarded for their contributions. Our size, the industries we serve, and the breadth of our portfolio enable people to have dynamic careers, develop into leaders, and gain experiences across businesses, functions, and regions.
Enablers
Our three Enablers—The Honeywell Operating System (HOS), Functional Transformation (FT), and Velocity Product Development™ (VPD)—are internal business processes driving efficiency and service quality, bringing world-class products and services to market faster and more cost-effectively for our customers. The Honeywell Operating System drives sustainable improvements in our manufacturing operations to generate exceptional performance in safety, quality, delivery, cost, and inventory management. Functional Transformation is HOS for our administrative functions—Finance, Legal, HR, IT and Purchasing—standardizing the way we work, reducing costs and improving service quality.
Velocity Product Development (VPD) strengthens our new product development process.
Our Twelve Behaviors
Honeywell encourages specific behaviors among our employees to ensure we meet our short-term and long-term commitments to solve many of the world's most complex problems. These behaviors are embodied in every project, process, and product of the company, and they are essential to the successful pursuit of our Five Initiatives.
Your performance with us will be measured according to the following Twelve Behaviors, and when you embody and develop them within yourself and in others, you will drive individual and business success.
Growth and Customer Focus recognizes that we need to think differently in order to grow. The customer is the cornerstone of our success. Effective employees do a superb job for customers every day in quality, delivery, value, and technology. They aggressively pursue new opportunities through superior sales and marketing, globalization, and technology roadmaps supported by Design for Six Sigma.
Leadership Impact means thinking like a leader regardless of your job, delivering on commitments, and being a role model for others. All leaders demonstrate passion for their work and care about the people in the organization. Each employee must be able to: 1) conceptualize an issue; 2) develop an action plan to address the issue; and 3) execute the plan.
Gets Results requires consistently meeting commitments to the business and to others. Quickly translate business requirements into actions by defining "who does what by when" to ensure plans are executed.
Makes People Better encourages excellence in peers, subordinates, and/or managers. Be a positive influence in the development of others.
Champions Change drives continuous improvement and fosters a Six Sigma mindset to make decisions that are in the best interests of customers, shareowners, and the organization. It reflects a constant commitment to do things better. Champions Change ensures the long-term strength of the company regardless of personal impact.
Fosters Teamwork and Diversity defines success in terms of the whole team. Employees must understand and capitalize on the fact that Honeywell's workforce is composed of individuals who represent a great diversity of values, opinions, backgrounds, cultures, and goals. Effective team leaders not only meet the expectations of their role as leaders, but they also set and meet the expectations for team members.
Global Mindset is viewing the business from all relevant perspectives and seeing the world in terms of integrated value chains.
Intelligent Risk Taking recognizes that generating greater returns requires taking greater risks. An intelligent risk taker uses sound business judgment, and has the courage to take action where outcomes are uncertain but where potential rewards are great. Business decisions often need to be made based on incomplete information.
Self-Aware/Learner individuals recognize their behaviors and how they affect those around them. Employees must accurately assess their own strengths and weaknesses and take action to improve.
Effective Communicator means providing timely and concise information to others, and using clear and thoughtful oral and written communication to influence, negotiate, and collaborate effectively. Leaders and employees need to appreciate that effective communication is about listening and being listened to but is not always about agreeing.
Integrative Thinker decides and takes action by applying intuition, experience, and judgment to the data available. They demonstrate an ability to assimilate various and conflicting information or opinions into a well-considered decision. They understand the implications of individual actions or recommendations on other systems, markets, processes, and functions.
Technical or Functional Excellence means being capable and effective in a particular area of expertise. Employees must remain aware of advances and current thinking in their fields and look for ways to apply the latest technologies to their work.
Six Sigma
Six Sigma is a critical strategy to accelerate improvements in processes, products, and services, and to radically reduce manufacturing and/or administrative costs and improve quality. These outcomes are achieved by relentlessly focusing on eliminating waste and reducing defects and variation.
It is one of Honeywell’s principal engines for driving growth and productivity in all its businesses. In addition to manufacturing, Honeywell applies Six Sigma to its administrative functions. The company has realized billions in cumulative savings from Six Sigma-related activities.
Some of the everyday approaches you will take as you work with Six Sigma in mind will be:
- Do it right the first time and eliminate non-value-added steps
- Become lean in your need for resources and support
- Reduce process variations
- Focus on customer satisfaction, first to understand their needs and then to delight our customers by exceeding their expectations
Honeywell managers, supervisors and most professionals are expected to become Six Sigma certified at least at the "Green Belt" level. To achieve certification, employees must successfully apply Six Sigma tools and improve company performance. This initiative has resulted in hundreds of process improvements that make our businesses even more productive and customer-focused.
Our Partnership with Nobel
The Honeywell-Nobel Initiative is a global science education effort that connects university students with recipients of the world’s most prestigious award -- the Nobel Prize. Students worldwide learn directly from Nobel Laureates in Chemistry and Physics through on-campus events, interactive content and broadcast programs designed to link one generation of leading scientists with the next. The Initiative features three core elements:
Nobel Minds
Honeywell is a Global Sponsor of Nobel Minds, a 60-minute Nobel Prize Series® broadcast that brings together the current year’s Laureates for a discussion on issues of global concern. Nobel Minds is broadcast each year in December on BBC World and other terrestrial networks, reaching 98 territories and 276 million households.
Honeywell Nobel Laureate Lecture Series
This series of live, on-campus events involve bringing a Nobel Laureate in chemistry or physics to select universities in China, the Czech Republic, Mexico, India and the United States, to participate in a number of high-profile activities including a public lecture, a "master class" with science and/or engineering students, and private receptions with members of the academic community, as well as local government and political leaders.
Honeywell Nobel Interactive Studio
This state-of-the-art digital platform showcases contemporary Nobel Laureates in chemistry and physics as they explain the science behind their Nobel Prizes. Launched in July of 2006, www.HoneywellScience.com spans the globe informing, educating and inspiring young people in innovative ways that are engaging and fun, providing them with a virtual up-close-and-personal view of the renowned accomplishments of recent Nobel Laureates honored for their ground-breaking achievements.
Diversity at Honeywell
Honeywell's workforce is composed of individuals who represent a variety of values, opinions, backgrounds, and cultures. Diversity enables collaboration to deliver innovative products and services for our customers around the world.
Our strong commitment to diversity and inclusion is reflected in the many Employee Resource Groups we support throughout our organization, and in the growing number of Diversity Recognition Awards presented to Honeywell and many of our exceptional employees.
Employee Resource Groups
Honeywell supports a variety of Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that foster professional growth for members, while promoting education and awareness for all employees:
- Honeywell Asian Network
- Honeywell American Indian Council
- Honeywell Black Employee Network
- Honeywell Hispanic Network
- Honeywell Veterans Network
- Honeywell Equality and Pride Alliance
- Honeywell Women’s Network
Each ERG has its own mission statement, goals and metrics; they share a common purpose in assisting Honeywell with our diversity initiatives. They also participate in community activities through Honeywell Hometown Solutions, and assist our businesses in defining new markets. Honeywell executives lend personal support by serving as sponsors, addressing meetings, or participating in each group’s cultural, educational and community activities.
True to Honeywell’s commitment to maintain an inclusive environment, each ERG welcomes all interested employees to join and participate in their activities.
Diversity Recognition Awards
Corporate Awards
- Top Engineering & Technology Companies by 2009 “Best of the Best” Annual Review Series conducted by Olive Tree Publishing, Inc
- Top Aerospace & Defense Companies by 2009 “Best of the Best” Annual Review Series conducted by Olive Tree Publishing, Inc
- Top Supplier Diversity Program by 2009 “Best of the Best” Annual Review Series conducted by Olive Tree Publishing, Inc
- Top Diversity Employer by 2009 “Best of the Best” Annual Review Series conducted by Olive Tree Publishing, Inc
- Top Companies for People with Disabilities by CAREERS & the disABLED magazine (2008 and 2009)
- “Most Admired Companies” by Fortune magazine in 2008 and 2009
- Named one of the “World’s Most Ethical Companies” by the Ethisphere Institute in 2008 and 2009
- Best Places to Launch a Career by BusinessWeek magazine in 2008
- Most Admired Companies by Career Communications Group (2007 and 2009)
- Top 50 Companies for Women Engineers by the Society of Women Engineers (2006)
- Top 25 Military Friendly Employers by G.I. Jobs magazine (2005 and 2006)
- Most Admired Companies by Hispanic Engineer and IT magazine (2005, 2008)
- Most Admired Companies by US Black Engineer and IT magazine (2005, 2008)
- Most Admired Companies by Women of Color magazine (2008)
- Great Organization for which to work by Women of Color magazine (2008)
- Best Companies for GLBT Equality designation by the Human Rights Campaign (2006-2009)
- Top 50 Companies by Minority Engineer magazine (2007)
- Great Places to Work – India by the Great Place to Work Institute/Growth Talent Company and Business World India (2006)
- Top Diversity Employer Award from The Black Collegian (2005)
Individual Employee Awards
- NJBIZ’s Best 50 Women in Business (2009)
- One of the Corporate Elite by Hispanic Business magazine (2009)
- 100 Most Powerful Executives in Corporate America by Black Enterprise magazine (2009)
- Woman Engineer magazine’s Top 50 Employers in 2009
- Human Rights Campaign Arizona Corporate Equality Award (2009)
- Top Supporter of Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions by US Black Engineer and IT magazine (2009)
- Top Female Finance Leaders by Treasury and Risk magazine (2008)
- "Business Woman of the Year" by Tampa Bay Business Journal (2007)
- "100 Most Important Blacks in Technology" by Black Engineer and IT magazine (2007)
- "Woman Worth Watching" by Profiles in Diversity Journal (2005, 2007)
- "Woman of Color in Technology Rising Star" by Career Communications Group (2007)
- "Most Powerful Women in Business Rising Stars" by Fortune magazine (2006)
- "Distinguished New Engineer Award" by the Society of Women Engineers (2006)
- "Most Powerful Women in Business" by Forbes magazine (2004, 2005)
- One of the "50 Most Important Hispanics in Technology and Business" by Hispanic Engineer and IT magazine (2005)
- "Top 100 Women in the Auto Industry" by Automotive News (2005)
Corporate Social Responsibility at Honeywell
Building upon our long tradition of corporate sponsorship, in 2003 Honeywell introduced Honeywell Hometown Solutions -- an evolutionary new approach to Corporate Social Responsibility. Working together with leading public and non-profit institutions, we use this powerful program to make a significant positive impact in the global communities we serve, while focusing on four important societal areas aligned with our heritage, products, and people:
- Science and Math Education
- Family Safety and Security
- Housing and Shelter
- Humanitarian Relief
