In its report The Human-Powered Enterprise, the international consulting firm Gartner presents the case of Bancoagrícola for its good practices in workplace well-being.
This report emphasizes that when organizations treat employees as human beings, not just as human resources, and when they respect and support the lives of their employees outside the workplace, they attract and retain more motivated and higher-performing talent.
Gartner Inc. is an information technology research and consulting firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, United States. It also has a headquarters in Fort Myers, Florida, and other corporate subsidiaries and offices distributed throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America.
The report says Bancoagrícola enabled business leaders and employees to formalize their commitment to well-being by defining “well-being at work” and incorporating it into organizational strategy. To overcome concerns that well-being is too broad to be influential, Bancoagrícola changed its approach to assessing well-being.
“In the study there are cases from global multi-industries, ours is presented as a good practice of well-being at the center of the strategy and that makes companies different by focusing on people. This is very interesting because that is a recognition”, said Alejandro Gómez
The Gartner report goes on to say that: Bancoagrícola’s HR team monitored progress through focus group discussions and an engagement survey. It conducted the engagement survey three times a year with randomly selected employees each time, ultimately surveying the entire workforce each calendar year.
“We are a unique company in these aspects, due to historical conviction, but we also measure it. We have a solid system of monitoring and support for teams and leaders to comply with strategies, and that is what this Gartner document emphasizes”, emphasizes the VP of Human Resources.
“We develop the country, we promote sustainable development to achieve the well-being of all, but we do it in a factual way, on a day-to-day basis in how we do things, which is what makes the difference. This is in our leadership style, in our culture, and we live it within the bank, but we want this to be multiplied from the point of view of experience to our clients as well”, concluded Gómez.
“At Bancoagrícola we listen to the needs of our collaborators, which is why we implement flexible work schemes that respond to productivity and the goals we have”, he said.
Bancoagrícola is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion, being one of the first companies to sign the United Nations WEP Principles of equity for women, which is why it has the seal of gender equity, which is reflected in the composition of its work team, made up of 55% women and 45% men, and of the approximately 400 leadership positions at Bancoagrícola, 50% are women and the other 50% men.
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