The internationally recognised Best Employers South Africa 2012/13 annual Certification Ceremony was hosted on the 29th of August with over 500 delegates in attendance. 73 organisations' certification was celebrated this year – the largest number since the Best Employer campaign began in South Africa in 1997.
Organisations are Certified as Best Employers in SA, and in over 40 countries globally, based on the HR standard of excellence evidenced through their documented employment practices in 5 dimensions: (1) Primary Benefits, (2) Secondary Benefits, (3) Career Development, (4) Culture Management, (5) Working Conditions.
This is the first year that the Best Employers rating has certified three top category leaders, each one heading up its size category: Old Mutual in the Giants category (for companies with more than 10 001 employees); MTN in the Large category (for those with 1001 to 10 000 employees); and Microsoft SA in the Medium category (250 to 1000 employees).
With more and more South African companies cultivating emerging market strategies, the CRF Institute is extending its tried-and-tested Best Employers South Africa index into Africa for the first time in 2012.
The certified Best Employers 2012/13 are:
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Abbott Absa Group Limited Accenture (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) AfriSam (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd Airports Company South Africa Anglo American Platinum Limited Avanade (Pty) Ltd BASF Holdings South Africa (Pty) Ltd Basil Read Ltd Becton Dickinson (Pty) Ltd British American Tobacco South Africa City Lodge Group Clicks Group Limited Coca-Cola South Africa Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Crossroads Distribution (Pty) Ltd Denel Land Systems Dimension Data e-Logics ENS (Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs) Ernst & Young Estee Lauder Companies Evraz Highveld Steel & Vanadium Ltd Foskor Limited G4S South Africa Group Five Hilti (South Africa) Ltd Industrial Development Corporation of SA Ltd (IDC) Itron JDG Trading Joburg Market Joy Global Africa Kimberly-Clark Sub-Saharan Africa Kumba Iron Ore (Pty) Ltd Legal Aid South Africa Liberty Group Limited |
Meltwater Group South Africa - News & Buzz Division Merchants Microsoft South Africa MiX Telematics Limited Mobile Telephone Networks (Pty) Ltd Mutual & Federal Neotel Nestlé (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd Netcare Limited Novartis South Africa Old Mutual (South Africa) Orion Group Peninsula Beverage Company (Pty) Ltd Pfizer South Africa Procter & Gamble SA PwC Regent Safripol (Pty) Ltd Sanofi-aventis (Pty) Limited SAP South Africa (Pty) Ltd SAS Institute (Pty) Ltd Sasol Siemens (Pty) Ltd Simba (Pty) Ltd State Information Technology Agency (SITA) Tata Consultancy Services (SA) (Pty) Ltd Telesure Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd Telkom The Effectiveness Company The Unlimited Total South Africa (Pty) Ltd Tsogo Sun Group Unilever South Africa (Pty) Ltd Vodacom Group Limited Volkswagen Group South Africa Webber Wentzel |
ABN caught up with, Ralph Mupita, CEO of Old Mutual SA and Emerging Markets to share his insight on what it means to be a best employer. We started off by asking him if the size of a company’s workforce matters when it comes to effective human resource policy implementation.