Date: 6/6/2018
Following its success in 2013 and 2016, Urban Group received the Grand Prize Award again in this year’s Employees Retraining Board (ERB) Manpower Development Scheme in recognition of its continuous support to the ERB courses and services for the manpower development in Hong Kong and its strong commitment to shoulder its corporate social responsibilities.
The ERB Presentation Ceremony of the Manpower Developer Award Scheme 2017-18 was held on 4th May 2018 at HKCEC, which was officiated by Dr Lam Ching-choi, BBS, JP, Member of Executive Council and Dr William Leung Wing-cheung, SBS, JP, Chairman of Employees Retraining Board.
The scheme is the first accreditation system to assess the level of maturity of manpower training and development strategies and practices of organisations in Hong Kong. Urban Group was among the initial supporters to the ERB Manpower Developer Scheme since its inception in 2009 and passed professional assessment criteria as well as accreditation mechanism every two years. To be a Manpower Developer (MD), a company should be able to show its outstanding performance in “Leading a Learning Culture”, “Resources Planning”, “Training and Development System”, “Performance Management” and “Corporate Social Responsibility in Manpower Development”. Therefore, Urban Group has formulated and implemented effective strategies and practices in manpower training and development of the group.
Dr Edmond Cheng, Managing Director of Urban Group states, “Urban Group has established a long term partnership with ERB by recruiting 200 to 300 retrained manpower. In the past decade, we have provided internship and employment opportunities to over 2,000 graduates from ERB. Some of them have been promoted to be managers and developed their career in Urban Group.”Dr Edmond Cheng points out, “Urban Group always emphasizes our employees are the most important asset. With the professionalisation of the industry, all practitioners are now required to obtain professional qualifications in order to provide quality services to meet customer needs. Therefore, we must organise various manpower training to consolidate their professional knowledge and qualification in order to keep abreast of the times. We regard the 5,200 employees as our ‘excellent partners’, value the spirit of teamwork and establish a vital bonding between us, so as to raise our competitiveness in the labour market and appeal to more elites.”
Dr Edmond Cheng continues, “Urban Group will remain being people-oriented and dedicated to training professional manpower in the future so as to increase the competitiveness of Hong Kong.”
Urban Group is a leading property asset and facility services group in Hong Kong. Currently, the Group manages 340 projects territory-wide and is serving 1 million people in Hong Kong.
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