Developing
OUR PEOPLE Brickworks recognises that sustaining a strong culture driven by the diversity of our people is critical to our long-term success. During FY19, we continued our focus on building and sustaining a strong culture with the continued integration of the ‘WE ARE BRICKWORKS’ Values and Behaviours. These values and behaviours drive unity and focus across the organisation by providing a simple way for employees to understand what the organisation stands for, and how success is achieved at Brickworks.
CULTURE
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
Values are embedded in our recruitment and selection criteria to ensure we are bringing people into the business who demonstrate our values.
We drive positive employee engagement through our strong employee value proposition, and multiple benefits offered to permanent employees; including paid parental leave, support for further education and employee share schemes. We host frequent social and celebratory events for employees, including company update evenings as an informative and fun networking opportunity for all employees.
Employees success in undertaking their day-to-day roles according to the company values is measured through annual performance reviews. In FY19 we relaunched the Code of Conduct with a Roadshow to help our people understand our expectations for their behaviours. Next year will see the launch of our Values survey, which will help to identify pockets in the workplace that require additional focus.
During FY19, we rolled out pulse engagement surveys in some divisions to help identify areas for improvement. On an ongoing basis we conduct and review exit interviews to understand areas requiring focus.
EMPLOYEES AND OTHER WORKERS Austral Bricks
VALUES AWARDS Across the business, we hold a variety of initiatives to celebrate staff living the company values. Austral Bricks Vic, holds Employee of the Quarter Awards.
As at 31 July 2019, Brickworks employed 2,111 full time equivalent employees (permanent and part time employees, excluding casuals). This comprised: ◗ 1494 total Australian workforce ◗ 1483 within Building Products Australia; ◗ 11 across Property and Group functions; and ◗ 617 within Building Products North America. Brickworks reports details of its Australian workplace profile to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) on an annual basis. The latest WGEA report can be downloaded from www. brickworks.com.au pNews & Reports
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