Great Place to Work

• Diversity &
  inclusion
• Careers
• Employee
  engagement
• Learning &
  development
• Reward &
  recognition
• Living
  with HIV
• Health &
  safety
• Our
  performance

Our performance

The competition for talent across many of our markets is fierce. Our aim is to attract and retain the best talent in each of the markets we operate in. We increased our focus on identifying and developing talent at junior levels and delivered one-day career development workshops for high potential employees across the Bank. We are in the process of implementing an integrated retention management strategy.

Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) remained a strong focus. Over 100 nationalities are now represented across the Bank and over 50 nationalities are now represented at senior management level. We strengthened our commitment to D&I through the appointment of 50 D&I Champions across 48 markets and territories. In addition, we established 28 Country Councils to support the Champions and they conducted a review process to develop country-specific action plans. We aim to create an inclusive working environment, enabling us to take our natural strength of diversity to the next level to deliver sustainable performance.

Employee engagement remains a priority for us. 95% of employees chose to take part in our annual employee engagement survey this year and engagement has increased each year of measurement. In 2007, we launched the Great Manager Programme to strengthen our managers' role in improving engagement. Over 5,500 managers participated in the programme.

Our Sustainability Review (PDF, 2.3MB) contains detailed information on our performance and metrics (PDF, 30KB) last year and our plans for 2007.