This reading lesson focuses on skills related to Synthesizing information from several sources.
Every year, Great Place to Work chooses the best businesses in a variety of sectors for countries all around the globe. Their criteria for what makes a company great is not its finances or market share, but its HR record.
Read the following article published by the website GreatPlaceToWork.ca and complete the exercises in the lesson document.
What is a Great Workplace?
Your company can be a great workplace — and more successful as a result.
Researchers, business leaders, media analysts and the public rely on Great Place to Work® metrics to establish the definitive standard of what a great workplace is. Great Place to Work’s annual research is based on data from more than 10 million employees in 45 countries representing over 5,500 organisations of varying sizes, industries and structures.
What is a Great Workplace?
Great workplaces are built through the day-to-day relationships that employees experience — not a checklist of programmes and benefits.
Employees believe they work for great organisations when they consistently:
- TRUST the people they work for;
- Have PRIDE in what they do; and
- ENJOY the people they work with.
Trust is the defining principle of great workplaces — created through management’s credibility, the respect with which employees feel they are treated, and the extent to which employees expect to be treated fairly. The degree of pride and levels of authentic connection and camaraderie employees feel with one are additionally essential components.
This fundamental model, confirmed by Great Place to Work through over 25 years worth of analysis of employees’ own opinions, is universal and consistent year-over-year, country-to-country, and applies to companies in all industries, non-profits, education and government organisations with wildly diverse employee demographics.
How Can Trust Be Measured?
Great Place to Work precisely measures the behaviours and the environment that forms the underpinning of world’s most desirable workplaces and successful businesses through 58 specific metrics embedded in our Trust Index© employee survey.
Academics, business leaders and the media rely upon Great Place to Work metrics to establish an objective standard of what a great workplace is. These metrics form the basis of the methodology Great Place to Work uses to advise companies on how to transform themselves into great workplaces. They help us and others analyse and determine those organisations that are the very best around the world.
Great Place to Work assessments provide organisations with actionable information aligning to the Great Place to Work Model and corresponding to employees’ key underlying criteria for a great workplace.