Date: 27/4/2010
Urban Group recently received the "Manpower Developer 1st" in the Employee Retraining Board (ERB) Manpower Developer Award Scheme, the first award scheme to assess the level of manpower training and development strategeis and practices of organizations in Hong Kong.
The ERB Manpower Developer Award Scheme aims to promote a corporate culture based on manpower training and development among organizations, heighten the awareness of employers and employees on continuous updrading and recognize employers who are committed to manpower training and development. The selection is based on the result of preliminary assesemnt and on-site inspection on the five areas of Leading a Learning Culture, Resources Planning, Training and Development System, Performance Management and Corporate Social Responsibility in Manpower Development.
Dr Edmond Cheng, Managing Director of Urban Group reveals, "Urban Group treasures the value of our Human Capital and truly believes 'Our People is our Brand'. We enhance our human capital quality through developing best practices human capital management and manpower planning and advocating lifelong learning and continuous improvement. We are the first real estate and facility services group to re-define the labour relations in the industry through introducing the concept of Human Capital. We value our 3,000 staff members as our Quality Working Partners, emphasizing mutual trust and teamwork, so as to maintain our competitive edge over our competitors in the human capital market to help attract and retain talented people."
Dr Edmond Cheng continues, "Urban Group has been a long term partner of ERB since 1999. We jointly organized various courses on property management and security services with ERB and employed a large number of the graduated retraining students. Over the past years, Urban Group has joined hand with ERB and the Labour Department to launch training programmes like 'Employment Programme for the Middle-aged', 'Rainbow Project for Middle Age Re-employment Programme' etc to enhance equal opportunities for various job seekers; participated in the 'School Business Partnership Programme', 'One Company One Job Campaign' of the Education and Manpower Bureau and Labour Department and joined with various universities to develop internal training programmes for the Group like the 'Executive Management Trainee Programme', 'Graduate Employment Training Scheme' and 'Project Sunshine - University Graduate Trainees Recruitment' to develop professionals in real estate and facility management ."
Urban Group was awarded the "Employers Gold Star Award - Platinum Award" in 2003 and received the "Employers Gold Star Award" of ERB in 2004. Besides, the Group has received the Employer Merit Award in 2001, 2006, 2008 and 2010 respectively. The Group also received the "Best Employers in Asia" in 2005 and the "Best Change Management Practices Award" in the HR Awards Hong Kong 2008, showing its contributions to Hong Kong's manpower development. Urban Group, a member of NWS Holdings Limited (Hong Kong Stock Code: 659), is one of the leading Real Estate and Facility Management Services Groups in Hong Kong. Currently, the Group manages 230 projects territory-wide and serving 1 million people in Hong Kong.
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