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Employee Development and Engagement
We recognise the importance of engaging, motivating, training
and supporting our people. We strive to develop our employees
to reach their maximum potential through training, job rotation
and internal promotion opportunities. Training allocation is
available annually for our employees to participate in internal or
external workshops and seminars. We believe that a mixture of
both internal and external training develops targeted skills and
knowledge for a specific role. Where headcount reductions
are necessary, affected employees are redeployed to new job
tasks where retraining and skill upgrading are provided to help
them transition into the new tasks.
SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2018
Diversity and Gender Balance
The Group is committed to providing a work environment free
of discrimination and unfair bias, where every employee has
an equal opportunity in the workplace.
In FYE2018, the Group’s workforce totalled 1,642 and is made
up of 26% women and 74% men. It is worth noting that due to
the nature of certain job functions such as manual work in our
plantation operations, the female take-up rate for these jobs
tend to be significantly lower. During the year, 13 or 3.5% of
new hires within the Group were women. We will continue to
seek opportunities for the Group to increase the percentage of
positions held by women in leadership positions.
Employee Breakdown
by Gender & Location FYE2018
Male Female
Group
74% 26%
Malaysia
63% 37%
Indonesia
77% 23%
Employee Breakdown
by Gender & Position FYE2018
Senior Management
3
4
Board of Directors
1
Management
21
1
Executive
47
17
Non-Executive
1,137
416