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Sri Lanka’s Best Companies to Work For – Study 2017 A Study by
Great Place to Work® Institute
START YOUR JOURNEY toWARDS CREATING AND SUSTAINING A GREAT WORKPLACE
“
Start your journey towards creating and sustaining a great workplace.
Great Place to Work® Institute conducts the largest annual research studies aimed at identifying, recognising, learning from, and spreading best practices of organisations that achieve business objectives by being great workplaces. Over 7000 organizations across 53 countries participate globally every year. Get involved to start your journey towards creating and sustaining a great workplace.
”
Who are We? o Great Place to Work® Institute is a global management research and advisory firm dedicated at enabling organisations achieve business objectives by building better workplaces. We are the world’s pioneer in studies pertaining to Workplace Environment & are globally the largest & most recognised study. o At Great Place to Work® Institute, we’ve spent over 25 years tracking great workplaces and learning from their successes, we have advanced the knowledge of what makes a great workplace and helped numerous companies to transform their workplaces. o By surveying millions of employees and studying thousands of businesses, we’ve created a model for building performance, based on trust. It’s our contribution to a global shift in businesses that is changing the way the world works. o Our model provides specific, actionable steps to get your organisation out there. While you are the ones to lead the organisation on this journey, we provide steady guidance from one of our 46 offices around the world while our workplace studies are taken in more than 52 countries around the world.
©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
What is Great Place to Work? Positive employee experience across 5 dimensions A great workplace is where you trust the people you work with, have pride in what you do, and enjoy the people you work with.
Any workplace can be measured through five dimensions: credibility, respect and fairness (which are attributes of trust), as well as pride and camaraderie. ©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
02
How do organizations become Great Workplaces? inspiring
Great practices and processes across the 9 people practice areas
thanking
hiring
celebrating
caring
Trust sharing
developing
listening
speaking
A great workplace is where you align people with organisational objectives, employees are enabled to give their personal best and work together as a team/family — all in an environment of trust. ©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
04
Why create a Great Workplace? •
ATTRACT TALENT
•
HIGHER ENGAGEMENT
•
LOWER TURNOVER
•
GREATER INNOVATION
•
HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY
•
HAPPY CUSTOMERS
HIGHER PROFITS
Financial Performance of the ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ featured by Fortune Magazine. The returns on the publicly traded companies in Fortune’s 100 Best, illustrate the extent to which 100 Best Companies consistently outperform major stock indices over time.
©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
How can you create a Great Workplace?
1
2
3
4
5
adding to your understanding of what makes a great workplace
diagnostic – identifying your strengths and improvement areas
insights – unpeeling the layers to discover the root causes
identification & prioritisation of action areas and creation of a road map for change
effective implementation with understanding of best practices and processes
©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
How can we help you? Great Place to Work® can help an organisation answer & act on 4 questions through our data insights, analysis, presentations and workshops:
1: Do your people think that your organisation is a great workplace?
2: Do your people practices help you create a great workplace?
3: Do your people managers create a great workplace?
4: Is your organisation recognized as a great workplace?
What is the study about? o An annual study to identify each country’s Best Companies to Work For o World’s largest study of its kind, covering more than 53 countries o Over 7,000 organisations participate every year globally o More than 3.5 million employees are surveyed every year o People practices of thousands of organisations are studied in depth o Leading International business publications like Fortune (USA), Financial Times (UK), Economic Times (India) and LMD (Sri Lanka) cover the study findings ©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
Why should your organisation participate in this study?
Companies that earn a spot on this list receive substantial positive publicity & enhanced employer brand value
Gain unparalleled insight into strengths & areas of improvement of your workplace culture
All companies, even those that don’t make it to the list, have experienced great value in terms of self evaluation and benchmarking
Opportunity to feature in various ranking lists, industry lists and special categories 09 ©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
What do you have to do to participate?
1
2
3
Register
Trust Index©
Culture Audit©
• We will administer an employee survey to all or a set of randomly selected employees.
• Submit information about the organisation’s people practices by filling our Culture Audit© document.
• This proprietary employee survey developed by the institute measures levels of trust, pride, and camaraderie and takes an employee about 15 minutes to complete.
• This instruments covers nine practice areas and can be compiled by one individual on behalf of the organisation
• The process starts with a quick online nomination. • Any company that is at least two years old with more than 50 employees in Sri Lanka is eligible for the national Best Companies to work for list. Companies with 25 50 employees are eligible for the Small Best Companies list. ©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
10
Our Model Trust Index©
Culture Audit©
Measures & Benchmarks Employee Experience
Assesses & Benchmarks People Practices
1/3
2/3
The Assessment process is an unique combination of understanding your employees’ experience through an employee survey and co-relating the same with our assessment of your people practices. This enables you to draw sharp action plans to work on relevant people practice areas. ©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
Our Model? a
2 lens model that maps employees’ perceptions and management practices
TRUST INDEX© - 2/3rd WEIGHTAGE • An employee survey questionnaire that captures responses through 60 statements •
Contains two open-ended questions that provide areas of strength and areas of improvement
©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
CULTURE AUDIT© - 1/3rd WEIGHTAGE A questionnaire on practices and policies at the workplace through the management perspective. This comprises of two parts.
What does it cost? VERY LITTLE to GET IN DEPTH FEEDBACK.
o The minimum investment for undertaking the assessment will be between LKR 50,000 to 250,000 depending on your employee strength. o This will entail organisations to receive Trust Index© Feedback Reporting package with a Survey scores, national benchmark, results for standard demographic cuts and analysis of your data via a presentation deck o All participating organisations have the option to subscribe for further in-depth paid reports for internal analysis; these reports are made available at nominal fees for interested organisations. o Organisations where all employees are not accessible over emails will still be able to be a part of this survey through a paper-pencil or kiosk method. This will entail an additional fee, depending on the number of employees taking this mode.
©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
Need more reasons to participate?!....
there is no downside to participate! the list of participating companies is kept confidential and only the best workplaces (the top 20/25) will be featured by our media partner
©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
SOME PAST LISTING ORGANISATIONS
Click here to view the lists 13 ©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
“We are proud to be named a ‘Great Place to Work’ for the second consecutive year which would have not been possible if not for the company’s foremost asset – our people. The company’s distinctive HR best practices, respect for individualism and diversity, open culture, trust and credibility of management, all of which has allowed our employees to create a truly great place to work.” Mano Sekaram, Technology
CEO,
99X
“I am indeed pleased that, this year as well, the GPTW survey affirms our position as a much sought after employer.
Our work culture which enables, empowers with accountability and embraces different views and opinions has held us in good stead in continuously attracting talent and retaining them in the organisation. At John Keells we afford our employees a well-rounded experience, exposure to a wide range of businesses and opportunities to grow with the organisation and add value to the diverse stakeholders who we are associated with..” - S C Ratnayake, CEO, John Keells Holdings PLC
"We are delighted to see CTC in the list of ‘Best companies to work in Sri Lanka', reflecting the strength of the organisation's people processes and the spirit of a winning organisation. We believe that the conscious decision made in participating in the ‘Great Place to Work®' survey benefited the organization in two ways. Firstly, the survey results re- assured the iconic employer brand of CTC plc as a ‘Best place to work in SL' where the unique skills that each employee brings to the organisation are highly valued. Simultaneously the survey led us to take appropriate action to strengthen our people processes, making them more robust and user friendly in order to further enhance the concepts highlighted by the 'great place to work' survey process." - Samanmali Chandrasiri, HR Director, Ceylon tobacco Company PLC
“Strategy is great.. culture is imperative.. but People are everything! All our business strategies will be at risk if we don’t have the talent and skills we need” China Gorman, Global CEO, Great Place to Work®
“Participating in the Study by Great Place to Work® Institute gets us this feedback and gives us credible input, which is tremendously valuable for salient interventions thereafter” Anil Sardana, Managing Director, Tata Power
©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
“We've
always believed that a great place to work is as relevant in an economic downturn as it is when times are good. There's a common misconception that focusing on this area is a nice to have rather than a critical element of what makes a company successful. Our view is that a great workplace is a business imperative” Paul Rellis, Managing Director, Microsoft Ireland
Sri Lanka’s Best Companies to Work For List •
The annual study runs from April on one year to January of the next year. Assessments can be undertaken anytime during this period. An assessment takes on average 1 ½ months to complete.
•
After undertaking a survey, any company that qualifies for the Best Companies to work for list is globally recognised as a Great Place to Work ® - the gold standard of evaluation and feature as an Employer Brand of Choice
•
The list makers are provided with a brand communication package after the awards ceremony which contains guidelines and suggestions for using the Best Companies to Work For logo and allows the company take advantage of the recognition
•
Further Recognition is given at an Awards Ceremony and Conference in June/July at which the Great Place to Work ® awards are distributed amongst list makers.
•
Opportunity to be nominated for and win Special category awards and Opportunity to be nominated for the Asia ‘Best companies to work for’ list in the following year
•
Feature in a cover story article for study with leading publisher in Sri Lanka and post award coverage
Study 2017 Awards and Recognition Based on the overall company score Trust Index
Based on scores of selected practices (Survey + Culture Audit)
Culture Audit
top 25/20 Best Companies to Work For List [in Alphabetical order]
top 3 Enterprises in Small Category [50-200 employees] top 3 Enterprises in Medium Category [201 – 750 employees]
top 3 Enterprises in Large Category [Over 750 employees]
top enterprise in Multinational Company and Public Limited Company Category
Excellence in Training and Development Excellence in Two Way communication (Speaking and Listening) Excellence in Employee Recognition Award for Pride in Organisation Award for Best Wellness Programme
How do you register? Nominations are now open. Register at the earliest to reserve your preferred slot to complete the process. Limited slots available!
Last Date for registrations Study 2017 - 30th January 2017 Study 2017 Small list – 31st March 2017
Questions?
This is an annual study and organisations should register to participate. Fill in the online registration form with some basic details and we will contact you to take process forward. Or call us for more details.
Click Here to Register >
Reach us at [email protected] or 0114545594 / 0114060051 or 0766301200
©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
12
Want to get in touch with us? Join our mailing list & we’ll keep you posted on our research, conferences, studies and everything! to join, just email us with ‘Mailing List’ in the subject line at – [email protected]
QUESTIONS?
SEND US AN EMAIL [email protected] ©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
Global Headquarters Great Place to Work® Institute 222 Kearny Street, Suite 800 San Francisco, California 94108, USA
Sri Lanka Office 301/3A Galle Road Colombo 03 [email protected] 0114545494
Join the conversation
www.greatplacetowork.lk
?
Sri Lanka’s Best Companies to Work For – Study 2017 A Study by
Great Place to Work® Institute
START YOUR JOURNEY toWARDS CREATING AND SUSTAINING A GREAT WORKPLACE
“
Start your journey towards creating and sustaining a great workplace.
Great Place to Work® Institute conducts the largest annual research studies aimed at identifying, recognising, learning from, and spreading best practices of organisations that achieve business objectives by being great workplaces. Over 7000 organizations across 53 countries participate globally every year. Get involved to start your journey towards creating and sustaining a great workplace.
”
Who are We? o Great Place to Work® Institute is a global management research and advisory firm dedicated at enabling organisations achieve business objectives by building better workplaces. We are the world’s pioneer in studies pertaining to Workplace Environment & are globally the largest & most recognised study. o At Great Place to Work® Institute, we’ve spent over 25 years tracking great workplaces and learning from their successes, we have advanced the knowledge of what makes a great workplace and helped numerous companies to transform their workplaces. o By surveying millions of employees and studying thousands of businesses, we’ve created a model for building performance, based on trust. It’s our contribution to a global shift in businesses that is changing the way the world works. o Our model provides specific, actionable steps to get your organisation out there. While you are the ones to lead the organisation on this journey, we provide steady guidance from one of our 46 offices around the world while our workplace studies are taken in more than 52 countries around the world.
©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
What is Great Place to Work? Positive employee experience across 5 dimensions A great workplace is where you trust the people you work with, have pride in what you do, and enjoy the people you work with.
Any workplace can be measured through five dimensions: credibility, respect and fairness (which are attributes of trust), as well as pride and camaraderie. ©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
02
How do organizations become Great Workplaces? inspiring
Great practices and processes across the 9 people practice areas
thanking
hiring
celebrating
caring
Trust sharing
developing
listening
speaking
A great workplace is where you align people with organisational objectives, employees are enabled to give their personal best and work together as a team/family — all in an environment of trust. ©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
04
Why create a Great Workplace? •
ATTRACT TALENT
•
HIGHER ENGAGEMENT
•
LOWER TURNOVER
•
GREATER INNOVATION
•
HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY
•
HAPPY CUSTOMERS
HIGHER PROFITS
Financial Performance of the ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ featured by Fortune Magazine. The returns on the publicly traded companies in Fortune’s 100 Best, illustrate the extent to which 100 Best Companies consistently outperform major stock indices over time.
©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
How can you create a Great Workplace?
1
2
3
4
5
adding to your understanding of what makes a great workplace
diagnostic – identifying your strengths and improvement areas
insights – unpeeling the layers to discover the root causes
identification & prioritisation of action areas and creation of a road map for change
effective implementation with understanding of best practices and processes
©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
How can we help you? Great Place to Work® can help an organisation answer & act on 4 questions through our data insights, analysis, presentations and workshops:
1: Do your people think that your organisation is a great workplace?
2: Do your people practices help you create a great workplace?
3: Do your people managers create a great workplace?
4: Is your organisation recognized as a great workplace?
What is the study about? o An annual study to identify each country’s Best Companies to Work For o World’s largest study of its kind, covering more than 53 countries o Over 7,000 organisations participate every year globally o More than 3.5 million employees are surveyed every year o People practices of thousands of organisations are studied in depth o Leading International business publications like Fortune (USA), Financial Times (UK), Economic Times (India) and LMD (Sri Lanka) cover the study findings ©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
Why should your organisation participate in this study?
Companies that earn a spot on this list receive substantial positive publicity & enhanced employer brand value
Gain unparalleled insight into strengths & areas of improvement of your workplace culture
All companies, even those that don’t make it to the list, have experienced great value in terms of self evaluation and benchmarking
Opportunity to feature in various ranking lists, industry lists and special categories 09 ©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
What do you have to do to participate?
1
2
3
Register
Trust Index©
Culture Audit©
• We will administer an employee survey to all or a set of randomly selected employees.
• Submit information about the organisation’s people practices by filling our Culture Audit© document.
• This proprietary employee survey developed by the institute measures levels of trust, pride, and camaraderie and takes an employee about 15 minutes to complete.
• This instruments covers nine practice areas and can be compiled by one individual on behalf of the organisation
• The process starts with a quick online nomination. • Any company that is at least two years old with more than 50 employees in Sri Lanka is eligible for the national Best Companies to work for list. Companies with 25 50 employees are eligible for the Small Best Companies list. ©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
10
Our Model Trust Index©
Culture Audit©
Measures & Benchmarks Employee Experience
Assesses & Benchmarks People Practices
1/3
2/3
The Assessment process is an unique combination of understanding your employees’ experience through an employee survey and co-relating the same with our assessment of your people practices. This enables you to draw sharp action plans to work on relevant people practice areas. ©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
Our Model? a
2 lens model that maps employees’ perceptions and management practices
TRUST INDEX© - 2/3rd WEIGHTAGE • An employee survey questionnaire that captures responses through 60 statements •
Contains two open-ended questions that provide areas of strength and areas of improvement
©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
CULTURE AUDIT© - 1/3rd WEIGHTAGE A questionnaire on practices and policies at the workplace through the management perspective. This comprises of two parts.
What does it cost? VERY LITTLE to GET IN DEPTH FEEDBACK.
o The minimum investment for undertaking the assessment will be between LKR 50,000 to 250,000 depending on your employee strength. o This will entail organisations to receive Trust Index© Feedback Reporting package with a Survey scores, national benchmark, results for standard demographic cuts and analysis of your data via a presentation deck o All participating organisations have the option to subscribe for further in-depth paid reports for internal analysis; these reports are made available at nominal fees for interested organisations. o Organisations where all employees are not accessible over emails will still be able to be a part of this survey through a paper-pencil or kiosk method. This will entail an additional fee, depending on the number of employees taking this mode.
©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
Need more reasons to participate?!....
there is no downside to participate! the list of participating companies is kept confidential and only the best workplaces (the top 20/25) will be featured by our media partner
©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
SOME PAST LISTING ORGANISATIONS
Click here to view the lists 13 ©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
“We are proud to be named a ‘Great Place to Work’ for the second consecutive year which would have not been possible if not for the company’s foremost asset – our people. The company’s distinctive HR best practices, respect for individualism and diversity, open culture, trust and credibility of management, all of which has allowed our employees to create a truly great place to work.” Mano Sekaram, Technology
CEO,
99X
“I am indeed pleased that, this year as well, the GPTW survey affirms our position as a much sought after employer.
Our work culture which enables, empowers with accountability and embraces different views and opinions has held us in good stead in continuously attracting talent and retaining them in the organisation. At John Keells we afford our employees a well-rounded experience, exposure to a wide range of businesses and opportunities to grow with the organisation and add value to the diverse stakeholders who we are associated with..” - S C Ratnayake, CEO, John Keells Holdings PLC
"We are delighted to see CTC in the list of ‘Best companies to work in Sri Lanka', reflecting the strength of the organisation's people processes and the spirit of a winning organisation. We believe that the conscious decision made in participating in the ‘Great Place to Work®' survey benefited the organization in two ways. Firstly, the survey results re- assured the iconic employer brand of CTC plc as a ‘Best place to work in SL' where the unique skills that each employee brings to the organisation are highly valued. Simultaneously the survey led us to take appropriate action to strengthen our people processes, making them more robust and user friendly in order to further enhance the concepts highlighted by the 'great place to work' survey process." - Samanmali Chandrasiri, HR Director, Ceylon tobacco Company PLC
“Strategy is great.. culture is imperative.. but People are everything! All our business strategies will be at risk if we don’t have the talent and skills we need” China Gorman, Global CEO, Great Place to Work®
“Participating in the Study by Great Place to Work® Institute gets us this feedback and gives us credible input, which is tremendously valuable for salient interventions thereafter” Anil Sardana, Managing Director, Tata Power
©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
“We've
always believed that a great place to work is as relevant in an economic downturn as it is when times are good. There's a common misconception that focusing on this area is a nice to have rather than a critical element of what makes a company successful. Our view is that a great workplace is a business imperative” Paul Rellis, Managing Director, Microsoft Ireland
Sri Lanka’s Best Companies to Work For List •
The annual study runs from April on one year to January of the next year. Assessments can be undertaken anytime during this period. An assessment takes on average 1 ½ months to complete.
•
After undertaking a survey, any company that qualifies for the Best Companies to work for list is globally recognised as a Great Place to Work ® - the gold standard of evaluation and feature as an Employer Brand of Choice
•
The list makers are provided with a brand communication package after the awards ceremony which contains guidelines and suggestions for using the Best Companies to Work For logo and allows the company take advantage of the recognition
•
Further Recognition is given at an Awards Ceremony and Conference in June/July at which the Great Place to Work ® awards are distributed amongst list makers.
•
Opportunity to be nominated for and win Special category awards and Opportunity to be nominated for the Asia ‘Best companies to work for’ list in the following year
•
Feature in a cover story article for study with leading publisher in Sri Lanka and post award coverage
Study 2017 Awards and Recognition Based on the overall company score Trust Index
Based on scores of selected practices (Survey + Culture Audit)
Culture Audit
top 25/20 Best Companies to Work For List [in Alphabetical order]
top 3 Enterprises in Small Category [50-200 employees] top 3 Enterprises in Medium Category [201 – 750 employees]
top 3 Enterprises in Large Category [Over 750 employees]
top enterprise in Multinational Company and Public Limited Company Category
Excellence in Training and Development Excellence in Two Way communication (Speaking and Listening) Excellence in Employee Recognition Award for Pride in Organisation Award for Best Wellness Programme
How do you register? Nominations are now open. Register at the earliest to reserve your preferred slot to complete the process. Limited slots available!
Last Date for registrations Study 2017 - 30th January 2017 Study 2017 Small list – 31st March 2017
Questions?
This is an annual study and organisations should register to participate. Fill in the online registration form with some basic details and we will contact you to take process forward. Or call us for more details.
Click Here to Register >
Reach us at [email protected] or 0114545594 / 0114060051 or 0766301200
©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
12
Want to get in touch with us? Join our mailing list & we’ll keep you posted on our research, conferences, studies and everything! to join, just email us with ‘Mailing List’ in the subject line at – [email protected]
QUESTIONS?
SEND US AN EMAIL [email protected] ©2016 GREAT PLACE to WORK® INSTITUTE
Global Headquarters Great Place to Work® Institute 222 Kearny Street, Suite 800 San Francisco, California 94108, USA
Sri Lanka Office 301/3A Galle Road Colombo 03 [email protected] 0114545494
Join the conversation
www.greatplacetowork.lk
