Montana Department of Labor and Industry

Administrative Team Core Values

The administrative team commits to live, breathe, walk, and talk these values:

CUSTOMER FOCUS

  • Making all decisions based on what is best for the customers - internal and external - within legal parameters of laws and regulations.
  • Inviting customer participation to better identify their needs.

INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY

  • Taking responsibility for your job performance, your attitude, your professionalism, and your communication.
  • Working effectively and productively in teams and partnerships, and taking responsibility for your role in developing and maintaining healthy relationships with business partners.
  • Seeking out training, tools, and information needed to do your job.
  • Always looking for new and innovative ways to improve customer satisfaction.
  • Accepting responsibility and accountability before you act.

INDIVIDUAL GROWTH

  • Freely sharing knowledge and opportunities for staff development.
  • Committing resources (money, time, tools) for staff development.
  • Recognizing individual strengths and valuing how they contribute to the whole.
  • Looking creatively at solutions to enhance staff performance at all levels.

ETHICS IN THE WORKPLACE

  • Trust
  • Mutual support.
  • Respect for others.
  • Honesty
  • We do not tolerate mean-spirited behavior.

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

  • Continually questioning the "why" and "how" of performing your job duties.
  • Including all stakeholders that may be affected by any change or improvement you are considering.
  • When appropriate, using data and a structured method to make decisions.