Employee Learning and Development As per BAM’ s sustainability report 2013, BAM encourages their own employees to develop themselves by offering educational courses. BAM has built good relationships with various universities in order to provide professional educational access to its employees. In addition, BAM has developed its own training centres like BAM Business School, which is based in Netherlands and BAM Nuttall Academy, based in the United Kingdom. The following figure illustrates number of people who are getting the advantage of BAM’ s educational programmes( Figure 7).
Figure 7: Attendances of BAM Business School / BAM Vocational School
Besides offering courses and training to its employees, BAM has developed a process in order to evaluate, track, record, and improve the performance of its employees through“ the performance management process”, where the employees will discuss with their respective managers on annual basis a specific plan and targets in order to develop their personal performance.
Gender Diversity Like any other construction company, BAM group is dominated by the male gender. Therefore, the group has encouraged the presence of female in different departments in order to maintain the female representation in the company. The“ Female Capital BAM” was formed by group of women as the main female association. The board meets with the“ Female Capital BAM” periodically in order to discuss any obstacle encountered by the association and solve any challenge. In Figure 8, the percentage distribution of male versus female at BAM is presented, while the percentage of female per level per country working for BAM is demonstrated. It is implied from the two diagrams, despite that small proportion of female working in the company compared to the male gender, there is good representation of female in the management level within BAM.
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