BY OKECHUKWU NNODIM
The Great Place to Work initiative has outlined 10 companies as great
workplaces in Nigeria for the 2011/2012 assessment period,
Okechukwu Nnodim writes
The GreatPlace to Work institute, a global research, consulting and
training organisation that identifies and creates assessment tools for
workplaces, has named 10 companies as best places to work in
Nigeria for the 2011/2012 assessment year.
The firm, at its inaugural event on Best Companies to Work For in
Nigeria, held in Lagos last week, noted that the GPTW initiative was
aimed at enhancing best work standards in companies to improve their
performances.
GPTW outlined the 10 best workplaces in the country during the
assessment period, according to their position, to include Guinness
Nigeria Plc; First BankNigeria Plc; GTAssur Plc; Accenture; and Fidelity
Bank Plc.
Others, from the sixth to 10th position, the firm said, included the
Lagos BusinessSchool; Financial Institutions Training Centre; Total Nigeria
Plc; Access BankPlc; and Glaxosmithkline Nigeria Plc.
The Chairman, GPTW Nigeria, Mr. Ghandi Olaoye, said a company would
attract good hands and talents when it was recognised as a great
place to work.
He said, “When you attract good talents, it will improve the quality of
your organisation. And once the quality of your organisation is improved,
then your overall performance will be laudable and your company will
become a place where people want to work.
“And once an organisation is a great place to work, the morale of the
workers is very,very good. When the morale is good, people are
passionate to work; they are passionate to be innovative, to give
themselves and their best to the organisation.”
On the selection process for firms awarded with the honour, Olaoye
said GPTW assessesa company’s credibility, fairness, pride and
respect for its employees.
He said, “In selecting the great places to work, what we do here is
that we collect the data and send it to San Francisco. And it is our head
office in San Francisco that reads the data; they read it and send the
winners to us. We don’t know anything about the selection.
“It is important to know that they do it centrally for all the 46
countries where this initiative is located. No country does it by itself.”
On the benefits of the initiative, Olaoye stressed that it would make
many organisations adjust their work conditions.
He said it would make companies pay attention to the way they treat
their employees, sincetheir workers would be the ones to rate them
whether they were a great place towork or not.
He said,“GPTW has been around for about 20 years. The credibility of
this initiativewill be sustained, because data is only collected here and
sent to our headquarters for selection.
“If you see the companies that won it here in Nigeria, you will agree
that they are companies doing well. For instance, First Bank recently
declared a huge profit and they won the second prize.”
Olaoye added, “For when staff are happy with their organisation, the
productivity increases and work flows seamlessly. Today, I am so
proud to say we are part of a very international community of 47
countries where this initiative is in place.”
In his submission, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer,
GPTW Nigeria,Mr. Kunle Malomo, said the institute began the process
by nominating over 225 companies in Nigeria.
He said,“We surveyed tens of thousands of employees in many
companies elected to participate and received culture audit
submissions. It was indeed as a rigorous process as any of the
companies honoured with this award will tell you.
“We also now have the first ever Nigerian benchmark of GPTW
companies, which will enter into a global database where 46 other
countries can now benchmark themselves against Nigerian companies. I
am proud to say that the results of our best companies were
reported as of high quality exceeding the global cut off by over12 per
cent.”
Malomo further called on employers to work towards making their
business organisations great places to work. This, he said, would
enhance profitability and improve overall performance of their
respective companies.
“To create a great place to work, managers must build trust by
practising credibility,respect and fairness… and they must encourage
pride and camaraderie,” he said.
Source:Punchng
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