the culture at George
The team at George believe in looking after their customers and their colleagues and that fashion can be fun!
The culture is one of the strongest elements of George. The passion for our products, the love of our brand and the focus on giving our customers what they want - everybody works as a team with these goals in mind.
the way we work around here
We have a saying: "all colleagues, one team", and George colleagues are part of that team of over 160,000 colleagues working across ASDA. Fundamental to this is the "way we do things around here", which is the way we like to describe our culture and how we work.
Our three values are:
- We put our customers first everyday
- We care for our colleagues everyday
- We strive to be the best we can be everyday
our customers
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do and our purpose is to make all our goods and services as affordable as possible. Behind this is our culture that makes all this possible.
It's a culture where we work as one team to support our stores, drawing on the strengths and expertise of individuals and sharing in each other's successes.
our attitude
Our drive, commitment and 'can do' attitude means great ideas can be put into action quickly. It's really a question of asking ourselves how we can do things instead of looking for reasons not to do them.
This, in a nutshell, is the way we work. We want people with positive attitudes, who are service orientated, passionate about our customers, interested and excited about clothing and want to work hard. Our great challenge is to deliver great products and a great service to our customers working within an every day, low cost environment.
Join us and it will become second nature to you in no time at all. Just to give you a taste of what's to come, here are a few unique components of the George way of doing things.
huddles
Huddles are our way of keeping us all informed about how the business is performing. It's how we outline and communicate our key activities, and helps us all to remain focused on the same goal. It also gives us a chance to acknowledge and celebrate team and individual successes.
name badges
It's not just our store colleagues who wear name badges - we all do, wherever we work. This includes everyone from all the colleagues at George House, the George Head Office, to our General Store Managers and Company Directors. We think it helps to make everyone that bit more approachable when we're all on first-name terms.
no jacket required
We think jackets are a barrier to approachability. So when you join George you can also look forward to saving on those dry cleaning bills!
10 foot rule
Sounds mysterious, but it's really very simple. If someone's within 10 feet of you, either a colleague, customer or a supplier, we believe you should always say "hello" to them. It just takes a second but it builds a real atmosphere of friendliness, warmth and respect.
colleague recognition
Saying thank you and well done may seem like small things, but they mean a lot when it happens to you. All of us at George know just how important it is, so we operate a number of reward schemes to reward colleagues both instantly and in the long term. You can find out more about them on the benefits and rewards page.