BPP believes that taking good care of employees by making them feel as part of the organization and satisfied with their works, inclusive of providing a fair opportunity for their career opportunities and listening to their opinions for further improvement, will finally make employees work happily. This will also drive them to continuously improve their works and help reduce the turnover rate as well as keep potential employees with the organization. In addition, the level of employee engagement is significantly related to the competitive advantage, growth, stability, and sustainability, as well as shareholders’ returns.
BPP has formulated the employee relation policy as a practice guideline for strengthening good relationships with its employees. The employee engagement is fostered with ‘Say Stay Strive’ concept.
The key drivers in persuading employees to engage with the organization are as following:
BPP in cooperation with external consulting firms have conducted the employee engagement survey annually. The analyzed survey results and suggestions from employees will be later used for developing the engagement action plan for both organizational and departmental levels. In addition, the reporting system to quarterly update management the progress of employee engagement has been created so as to continually strengthen the employee engagement.
The Company uses the employee engagement survey for analyzing and improving employee engagement to be tangible. Management of employee engagement is divided into three dimensions, the scores of which have significantly increased as follows:
1. Work-Life Balance
The Company has put top priority on and encouraged employees to achieve work- life balance or a balanced life in both work and healthy living. Various methods were promoted as follows:
- Providing the ‘Work Anywhere’, a system designed to help employees in working everywhere through various communication devices, such as email and video conferencing systems provided by the Company
- Flexible working hours provided, including 7:30 am., 8:00 am., 8:30 am., 9:00 am., and 9:30 am., respectively
- Improving the flexible remunerations “Flexible Benefits” to be more diverse so as to meet the needs of employees at all levels
- To help employees have healthy minds and strong bodies, the Company has provided a fitness room for staff at the Bangkok office. They can also choose to participate in sports clubs such as a golf club, a walking club, a badminton club, a tennis club, and a futsal club
- Annually providing the ‘Relation Flip’ program allowing employees to consult with psychologists on both working and personal related matters
- Organizing sharing session to promote financial knowledge for employees
2. Career Opportunity
The Company has organized a course to develop employees’ capabilities in preparation for their career growth as well as strengthen the engagement and understanding between executives and employees. For example, the ‘Engaging Leader & Great Coach’ programs have been continuously organized in order to develop executives to be the leaders who enhance the employee engagement. This program provides supervisors the opportunity to practice listening to suggestions on both work and personal life from their subordinates with whom they are close and able to learn at all times. This includes an emphasis on coaching, creating motivations so as to understand how to develop a unified teamwork. In addition, the Company has communicated the promotion criteria for employees at all levels to understand and prepare themselves for further growth.
3. Communication Effectiveness
The Company has improved the communication efficiency of various information related to employees to be more clearly by using the communication channels easily accessible by employees in diverse ways, with an aim to make employees understand more about the Company’s policies and management framework, as well as draw employee’s participation in giving suggestions such as organizing ‘A Special Talk by CEO’, Investor Relation Quarterly Communication and Company’s activities updated by communication.
The Company has adhered to three principles of human resources management, consisting of the employee’s equality (Equitability), the performance-based management (Performance Base), and the competency management (Competency Base). We have long been supporting collaborative works under diversities of races, languages, cultures, ages, and countries in which the Company has operations in order to strengthen the collaborative works and drive the Company’s innovations towards the sustainable business growth.
Performance management is an important process driving the organization to achieve its established business goals. It is a linkage between the organizational requirements and each employee’s individual working target. It is also an administrative tool allowing superiors to know their subordinates’ performances and his/her competency in addition to promoting collaborations among them on setting goals and KPIs together. This has led to the partnership and good relationships between supervisors and subordinates, ultimately escorting to the organizational success.
Defining a clear and tangible performance appraisal system able to measure and evaluate the success of each person is therefore essential. Messages on performance management have been also communicated to all employees for acknowledgement and using it as a practice guideline as follows:
- Defining a fair key performance indicator (KPI) system in order to manage performance in the same direction/ in accordance with the Company’s targets. In addition, the Company has revised the KPI scoring criteria divided into two sets, consisting of work-related KPIs accountable for 70% of the overall performance, and corporate cultural behavior based KPIs representing the remaining 30%.
- Improving the performance appraisal standards as the single practice guidance across the organization. This guideline determined that each indicator must have at least one performance evaluation criteria from four criteria, including: 1. Quantity criteria 2. Progress and Time criteria 3. Budget Utilization criteria (Cost) 4. Accuracy and Quality criteria. The improved performance appraisal standards have been communicated to employees for their clear acknowledgement and understanding of the improvement of performance assessment.
- Identifying the key performance indicators beyond their own responsibilities, such as those relating to subordinate management skills. The Company has determined the leadership KPIs for department’s managers and up so that they are aware that in addition to managing his/her department’s works, paying high attention and caring for subordinates is also part of helping improve the department’s performance better.
