Date: 21/5/2012
Urban Group has passed the renewal assessment of the ERB Manpower Developer Award Scheme and continues to hold MD 1st for the second consecutive years. The Award acknowledges the outstanding achievement of the company in manpower training and development, and the contribution in the promotion of a learning culture within the Group.
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, "We treasure the value of our Human Capital and truly believes 'Our People is our Brand'. We enhance our human capital quality through developing best practices in 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 in the 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 retrained 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 to enhance equal opportunities for job seekers; participated in the School Business Partnership Programme, One Company One Job Campaign of the Education and Manpower Bureau and the Labour Department and joined with 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 is a leading property asset and facility services group in Hong Kong. Currently, the Group manages over 230 projects territory-wide and is serving1 million people in Hong Kong.
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