Date: 2/5/2014
Urban Group has passed the renewal assessment of the Employee Retraining Board (ERB) Manpower Developer (MD) Award Scheme and continues to hold the MD 1st status for the third time. The Award acknowledges the outstanding achievement of the company in manpower training and development, and its contributions in the promotion of a learning culture.
The 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 upgrading and recognize employers who are committed to manpower training and development. ERB has appointed an independent Technical Consultant to formulate the accreditation mechanism and assessment criteria for reviewing and evaluating the level of maturity of manpower training and development strategies and practices of the organizations. Organizations that fulfill the criteria will be acknowledged as MD within a 2-year validity period, subject to renewal every 2 years.
The presentation ceremony of the ERB MD Award Scheme was held on 23rd April, 2014 and officiated by The Hon. Matthew CHEUNG Kin-chung, GBS, JP, Secretary for Labour and Welfare.
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 property asset and facility services group in the industry to re-define the labour relations through introducing the concept of Human Capital. We value our 3,800 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 a long standing working relationship with ERB and its partnering training organizations for over 10 years. We actively support its retraining programmes amd have employed a large number of its graduates in our managed properties over the past years. Apart from providing management and security jobs for the retrainees, we have also opened up new job opportunities for them such as concierge and club house assistants. We also contribute comments and suggestions on the contents and development of the ERB programmes so as to enhance the skills and abilities of the retrainees."
Urban Group is a leading property asset and facility services group in Hong Kong.Currently, the Group manages over 335 projects territory-wide and is serving1 million people in Hong Kong.
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