Published: 29 November 2013 at. 12:27 – Updated: 29 November 2013 at. 2:08 p.m.
task is simple:
grow mustache throughout November. You create a profile for your mustache on movember.com and get everyone you know to vote and donate money to your mustache.
money goes to research on men’s health – prostate and testicular cancer, and mental health.
Movember
competitive spirit and social responsibility has received over 20,000 men to grow mustache throughout November, as part of the Movember campaign.
date, the Norwegian participants and their mustaches collected about four million.
Internationally, in 2012 collected over 839 million dollars. This year, an even larger sum.
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Bart + money + technologists
Technologists are important contributors.
both international and Norwegian headliners are the technology companies that have generated the most engagement and collected the most money.
– We have no statistics on which occupations are most active, but in Norway it is particularly engineering and IT industry that stands out, says campaign manager for Movember, Fredrik Bjørlo.
mustaches have not only contributed to greater social responsibility, but also a good working environment at work.
– It’s really great to see Movember trigger competitive nature of men, both in terms of who can collect the most money and who grow the best mustache. In many businesses have Movember has become a more important international cultural than strategy sessions, Friday the beer and coffee machine, says Bjørlo.
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scorer this year Rambøll mustache
editor in Ramboll, Jarle Stokland, is one of the 120 employees who participate in Movember. The entire company has a total of seven different bartelag spread across the country.
– We compete both internally and externally about who can collect the most money and who has the best mustache. Today, we publish also who has this year Rambøll feasible.
Stokland points out that competition is taken very seriously.
– Engineers are the very keen competition, so it’s really fun to be part of Movember. There is much talk about the campaign here at work, even in customer facing functions mustache as a positive icebreaker. Normally we are all scattered in every our department, but the competition has meant that we work together and become better known across departments.
According Stokland has large purchases of releasable made the competition more equal. Some women in business have also made a profile on Movember and raising money for the teams.
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initiative came from an employee
Stokland says that the initiative to join last year came from Joachim Viktil, one of the employees at the Oslo office. Employee commitment Movember has also led to the lead started to grow a mustache.
A total collected 35,000 dollars, and this sum will lead to Ramboll to double.
– Our CEO Ole-Petter Thune is part of the competition through the layer of Bergen. The senior management of the company has also decided to join in their regionslag.
Employees will be more involved
BI researcher Caroline Ditlev-Simonsen has asked 700 employees in four Norwegian companies about corporate responsibility, Corporate Social Responsibility.
She has discovered that employees feel more committed to their business if they feel that this is responsible and cares about them.
Employees also wanted to be more involved in the design of corporate social responsibility activities. She says that it is relatively easy to involve the employees, but that management can easily overlook the employee’s desire to help.
– Decisions CSR is often taken high up in the corporate hierarchy, and managers assume that employees have the same view of what is right to do on site. It is not always the case.
She says that Movember is a very good example of where employees take the initiative for a good cause and manages to mobilize colleagues. Studies show that when management has taken has been responsible for the selection of good cause to support, it is often employees are not aware of this at all.
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Should get breast bare
Tom Huuse clan leader GE MO & Tash that comes from Company GE Oil & Gas. As of today, made number one on the top list of all teams in Norway.
– It is amazing how much unity and positive, we have gotten out of the competition. It has also led to many crazy antics, says Huuse.
One of them is Brazilian waxing one of the leaders in the company. Each of the 12 has been dealt a collection shaker that employees could put money in. The manager who gets the most money “wins” Brazilian waxing of the entire chest.
– The only hair that will be left will look like mustache, says Huuse adding that he currently are lagging behind in this competition.
He and CFO Espen Ogne have in various ways made a bet that the counterparty will make the most money in their jar. This money also goes on to Movember campaign.
Besides it has the toughest chest bare-competition handed out flyers in the neighborhood and been actively fundraising from both family and friends. Last Saturday arranged GE bartelag a so-called Show Your Mo Event, a charity event in the center of Stavanger.
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Collected 120.000 million
team has so far managed to collect 120,867 million, while the team model from Dell is currently in second place with 103,990 kroner in Norway.
– We’re a global company that works extensively with health sector and research. Social responsibility is one of the most important values ??for us. So it was natural for us to be part of Movember, says Huuse, who is also Regional Director for Subsea Systems for GE Oil & Gas.
It will be possible to donate money for a time, but 9 December freeze leaderboards and team that has managed to collect the most money will be chosen.
There are top 10 teams in Norway
- GE Oil & Gas – 120,867 €
- Dell – 103.990 €
- Archer Norway – 90,435 €
- Stavanger Oilers – 78,534 €
- BP Norway – 71,902 €
- HP Norway – 66,161
- Statoil ASA – 65,760 €
- RWE – 64,730 €
- Kongsberg Protech Systems – 63.230 €
- Evry – 56,011 €
figures are taken from the top 29 lists November 2013.
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