Overview Great Place To Work® Institute is the world’s pioneer in studies pertaining to workplace culture. It is a global research and consulting firm that conducts the world’s largest annual research studies aimed at identifying, recognizing and learning from organizations that achieve business objectives by sustaining great workplaces.
Over 30 years of global research has contributed to the model and methodology, benchmarks, people practices used to support organizations of all sizes and industries define, measure, improve and leverage their company culture as a strategic priority. Studies steered by Great Place To Work® Institute impact over 12.5 million employees in over 10,000 organizations across 57 countries every year.
Great Place To Work® Institute works towards ‘Building better societies by helping companies transform their workplaces’.
In addition, Great Place To Work® Institute in Sri Lanka is committed to the local vision of ‘Making Sri Lanka a Great Place to Work’. What is “A Great Workplace Culture”?
A great workplace culture is a High-
Trust, High-Performance CultureTM. TRUST (trust the people they work for) A great workplace is one where employees trust the people they work for, take pride in what they do, and enjoy the company of the people they work with. EMPLOYEE Such organizations are characterized by PRIDE CAMARADERIE great leadership, consistent employee (take pride in what (enjoy the company of the people they experience, and sustainable financial they do) work with)
SCORE Essential elements of a Great Place to Work®
Two way accessible candid Communication
Managers’ Competence Credibility Integrity – Reliability of Management T R Professional Support Collaboration U Respect Demonstrated Caring
S Equity T Impartiality Fairness Justice
In Own Job About Own Team Pride About the Organization
Individuality is Valued Welcoming Atmosphere Camaraderie Sense of one Family / Community Great Place to Work® People Practice Framework Inspiring help people see how they contribute to an organization’s higher purpose The Great Place to Work® Thanking Hiring People Practice Framework show appreciation regularly and in unexpected ways hire people with gifts/talents who fit into the culture to contribute to the outlines nine key areas organization’s growth around which leaders can Caring Celebrating design practices to create a offer distinctive benefits People celebrate organizational and High-Trust, High- that respond to people’s needs;show work group successes in concern in times of crisis Practice Framework distinctive and unusual ways Performance Culture™.
share rewards of mutual efforts help people nurture their gifts to grow professionally and Management Questionnaire equitably with all who helped produce those results and with personally is a tool for evaluating & communities benchmarking the existing Listening Speaking people practices of an be accessible so people can ask provide information honestly and questions, make suggestions and transparently so people can contribute organization. express concerns creatively to the organization’s efforts Great Place to Work-CertifiedTM Great Place to Work® Certification is designed to help organizations create and sustain a High-Trust, High-Performance CultureTM within their workplaces.
Joining this program is the first step in an organization’s
journey of building a great workplace culture.
This program also provides an opportunity for workplaces to get
recognized by becoming Great Place to Work-CertifiedTM ! Which companies are eligible for the Certification Program? Workplaces must fulfil the following criteria to qualify for the Great Place to Work® Certification: 1. An organization must have at least 20 employees on the payroll 2. An organization should have operated in Sri Lanka for at least 1 year 3. An organization’s employee strength should not have increased by 25% or more as a result of a merger or acquisition in the last 12 months
Once certified, organizations that have more than 2 years of operations in Sri Lanka will also have the option of being considered for various Best Workplaces Lists. What global threshold must be met to be Certified? Workplaces must reach the following global criteria through the assessment to obtain for the Great Place to Work® Certification recognition: 1. An organization must have reach minimum 70% score from employee survey (~7 out of 10 employees must believe that it is a Great Place to Work) 2. An organization must obtain minimum 2 out of 5 overall score for the Culture Audit Submission of the 15 practice areas measured by Great Place to Work Inc.
Once certified, organizations that have more than 2 years of operations in Sri Lanka, who reached employee survey score >70% and 2.5 out of 5 from Culture Audit will also have the option of being considered for various Best Workplaces Lists. How can the Certification Program help your organization? In addition to the opportunity to be Great Place to Work-CertifiedTM, you can get access to insightful data-driven reports to continue your journey of building a great workplace culture.
Measure the Greater level of Quality of productivity, employee employee High-trust Action Planning collaboration, engagement, experience& the culture in the & Deployment innovation, and identify quality of organization customer strengths and people practices service challenges How can an organization get Great Place to Work-CertifiedTM? An organization will be guided through the following 6-steps process under the Great Place to Work® Certification program:
Get in touch with us. We will schedule a meeting/call with
Scoping the leadership team of your organization to understand the scope and objectives of the assessment and share a proposal.
Once go ahead has been given by the management, Start by
Get a Snapshot of the Benchmark against best Acquire higher brand
current level of trust in workplaces and visibility and attract your workplace that better talent through understanding people better employer has lead to your practices better branding current business performance Q: Where do we start? A: Start by registering with us online. Click here to apply.
FAQs Q: When can an organization be considered sufficiently prepared to apply to get Great Place to Work-CertifiedTM? A: The certification program is designed not just to help organizations get certified, but also to gain access to data driven insights to build High-Trust, High-Performance CultureTM and continue the journey. Most organizations do not wait to start their journey.
Q: If an organization applies to get Great Place to Work-CertifiedTM, will it certainly get certified? A: Based on the past data, generally less than 40% of the organizations who apply, are eligible for certification. However, all organizations can access insightful reports to continue their journey to build High-Trust, High- Performance CultureTM.
Q: What happens in case an organization does not meet the certification criteria post the assessment? A: The organizations that do not meet the eligibility to get Great Place to Work-CertifiedTM can still access insightful reports to continue their journey to build a High-Trust, High-Performance CultureTM. Only the names of certified organizations will be named/published. Great Place to Work® Institute also has a range of post assessment consulting actions that can be opted for to action out on assessment results in order to improve for the future.
Q: When can we be certified?
A: Your organization will be certified within 1 month of fully completing the assessment process and if the required thresholds are met. The process may take 2 months to complete, but timeline can be shorted for client convenience.
FAQs than 200 employees, the survey will be administered to a random stratified sample selected by Great Place to Work® Institute from all employees on the organization pay-roll. (90% confidence level, +/- 5% error). For organizations with more than 1000 employees a 30% maybe considered depending on distribution of employees. All relevant employee information must be shared to be eligible for certification process (*conditions apply – consult relationship manager for further information)
Q: Is my employee/ organization information safe?
A: Yes, the online dashboard is hosted on a secure platform and information privacy is maintained. Employee or organization data is not sold to any other party. Great Place to Work® Institute signs a service contract / non disclosure agreement with all participating organizations.
Q: How will my employees be surveyed?
A: By default all survey participants with email access will answer an online survey through user friendly survey portal. For employees with no email access, but ability to use the computer, kiosk mode is available. And for other employees paper pencil mode is available. All 3 local languages are available.
Survey will be open for a 2 week period. It will take 20 minutes to answer survey.
Survey response from employees will be anonymous and Great Place to Work® Institute has a robust process in place to maintain employee anonymity. Additionally demographic grouping
A: A professional fee will be charged for administration of the assessment and to provide feedback reports. It is dependent on the number of employees in the organization, administration options, level of customization and reporting options selected. A proposal can be shared with you by Great Place to Work relationship managers.
Q: Who will I be benchmarked/compared against?
A: The Great Place to Work® certification is a stand alone recognition opportunity for any organization meeting a globally accepted threshold set by Great Place to Work® Institute. Your organization will not be compared against any other during the evaluation process. However, in order to provide a better understanding of your results the survey feedback report will be provided with the Top 25 Workplaces in Sri Lanka benchmark. Additional benchmarks can be purchased.
Q: What repots will I receive at the end of the process?
