Vitality of Directive 05 in the Party Committee of the Enterprise Bloc

Brick production line of 30/4 Brick and Tile Joint Stock Company. Photo: Thanh Le

Creativity in work

The Nghe An Petroleum Company Party Committee has 220 party members with 15 affiliated party cells. Although it is an enterprise, the unit pays special attention to Party building work. Party Secretary and Company Director Nguyen Sy Van said: “Implementing Directive 05 of the Politburo, the company has built models of learning and following Uncle Ho such as building civilized commercial stores, honest sales, practicing thrift, fighting corruption, waste and other negative manifestations. In addition, the company organizes to commend collectives and individuals with outstanding achievements in production and business every month and every quarter, through professional competitions, skills, and skilled workers”. Nghe An Petroleum Company has nearly 550 officers and employees, 71 stores (76 points of sale), to manage people, especially calculating salary coefficients according to output, shifts and individual units that often have many fluctuations, the unit has the initiative to build a software system to manage human resources and salaries. This model also helps the company's leaders manage the sales volume and income of the company's store system.

At the Party Cell of the 30/4 Brick and Tile Joint Stock Company, following Uncle Ho is associated with movements of technical innovation initiatives, investment in technological innovation of production lines to improve productivity and quality of brick products to meet market demand: such as the moisture separation system to prevent brick collapse in the tunnel brick drying tunnel, which benefits the unit 2.4 billion VND/year (won the third prize in the provincial Science and Technology Innovation Contest in 2017)... In particular, the unit has converted the use of agricultural land (field clay) to hill land (hill clay) and construction waste. Thus, there is no loss of agricultural land and at the same time, using hill land expands the production area. Waste products are crushed and reused, minimizing the impact on the environment. Product quality is improved, saving energy and improving the working environment.

The provincial post office builds a corporate culture image through coordination with agencies, departments and sectors to provide public services. Photo: Thanh Le

For the Youth Union of the Enterprise Sector, promote youth strength and implement the campaign "Each youth has a creative idea". In 2017, 25 initiatives and creative ideas at the company level of the Youth Union members were practically applied, bringing economic efficiency to the enterprise, contributing to reducing labor and increasing income for workers.

Comrade Nguyen Kieu Hung - Deputy Head of Propaganda Department of the Party Committee of the Enterprise Bloc said: "Many Party Committees and Party cells have linked following Uncle Ho's example with launching the emulation movement "Good workers, creative workers". The movement has been widely deployed, contributing to encouraging working spirit, inspiring ideas to help workers develop their potential, creating many technical innovation initiatives, contributing more to the development of enterprises and their own income. To encourage the movement, over the past two years, the Party Committee of the Bloc has commended collectives and individuals with technical innovation initiatives to improve production and business efficiency for enterprises".

Building corporate culture

Sewing line for export products of Minh Anh Kim Lien Company. Photo: Thanh Le

In order to create a clear change in promoting the study and following of Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style, one of the solutions that the Provincial Business Bloc Party Committee has directed to implement is associated with building corporate culture. Specifically, the Bloc Party Committee Executive Committee has organized the development, promulgation, implementation of studying, dissemination and implementation of Resolution 05 dated April 20, 2018 on "Strengthening the Party's leadership in building corporate culture at the Bloc Party Committee to meet the requirements of integration and development" which has been effectively implemented by the Party Committees and Party cells in the Bloc.

At the Party Committee of Saigon-Kim Lien Joint Stock Company, every Monday morning, officers and employees wear neat uniforms and seriously perform the flag-saluting ceremony. The flag-saluting ceremony has been implemented by the unit for the past 2 years. After the ceremony, the unit held a weekly meeting where the company's leaders reported on the results of the past week's activities and key tasks for the coming week; commended groups and individuals who actively completed their tasks; and reminded them of shortcomings and weaknesses.

“A small but meaningful activity, through the flag salute at the beginning of the week, aims to educate and enhance patriotism and national pride; at the same time, remind everyone of the spirit of serving the Fatherland and preserving the national cultural identity. In addition, the Party Committee launched the movement "Pick up lost items and return them to the owner". This activity also contributes to creating beauty in corporate culture; for the satisfaction of customers, it is a meaningful and practical work in studying and following the example, ideology, morality and style of Ho Chi Minh" - Party Committee Secretary, Deputy General Director of Saigon-Kim Lien Joint Stock Company Vo An Huy said.

Or, for the Banking sector, learning and following Uncle Ho is implemented in association with a variety of corporate cultural activities such as the exemplary culture of the leadership team, increasing effective support connections between departments, building a multi-dimensional culture of gratitude, polite and courteous working attitude towards customers, improving professionalism and quality of services provided to customers. "When corporate culture builds a positive working environment that nurtures creativity and allows people to perform to their best ability; at the same time, creating cohesion and unity between the business and employees. Corporate culture has become a criterion for evaluating the attractiveness of businesses in attracting human resources" - Mr. Tran Nguyen Minh - Deputy Head of Human Resources Administration Department of Foreign Trade Bank, Nghe An Branch shared.

Youth Union of Provincial Business Bloc participates in humanitarian blood donation. Photo: Thanh Le

One of the meaningful activities with profound humanity following Uncle Ho that the Party Committee of the Business Bloc has implemented is the movement of "love and affection", "the healthy leaves cover the torn leaves" through social security activities such as: donating to build houses of gratitude for policy families of the Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade, Nghe An branch, Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Investment and Development, Vinh branch; the model of receiving long-term support for poor students overcoming difficulties in mountainous districts of the Business Bloc Youth Union; the model of bowls of love porridge of Giao Te Hotel and the Foreign Trade Bank, Nghe An branch, etc.

Secretary of the Provincial Business Bloc Party Committee Thai Khac Thu said: “The Party Committee of the Bloc has focused on directing Party committees and grassroots organizations to implement Directive No. 05 in conjunction with carrying out political tasks and building corporate culture. However, due to many different reasons, the implementation of Directive 05 by the Provincial Business Bloc Party Committee still has many limitations and shortcomings, especially the quality of implementation of some contents is not high and uneven; it has not created a strong and effective driving force to overcome weaknesses and shortcomings in Party building work and carrying out political tasks at the grassroots level”.

“In the coming years, imbued with the viewpoint of “one part plan, two parts measures and three parts determination”, the Provincial Business Bloc Party Committee will continue to focus on leading and directing Party committees and grassroots organizations to promote studying and following Uncle Ho to become a regular activity, a voluntary action of every cadre, party member and employee in enterprises” - Secretary of the Provincial Business Bloc Party Committee Thai Khac Thu affirmed.