Career Pathing and the Talent Journey

The Group’s Talent teams have undertaken a Job Standardization exercise to streamline competencies and job titles across functional areas throughout the Group. Functional career pathing is being introduced across all Sectors to ensure that our people and leaders understand their path within the organisation, know where their future can lie within the Group and how to get there. This will also strengthen our succession pipelines for business continuity and excellence.

The output of this Project will feed directly into the Talent Management module in the new Human Resources Information System (Employee Central), educating employees in an objective way on personal competency gaps and identifying targeted training and development opportunities as they grow within the organization. As a Group, we will now also be able to effectively analyze and target gaps, and identify trends and opportunities across our entire group, by job, function, level and competency.

They are the engines that keep the businesses going, the collective spirit of the company, and our brand ambassadors. The Group’s mantra ‘Together We Are Family’ guides our practices on how we invest and look after people. It is therefore only natural that we focus on the health and well-being of these essential family members. Throughout the Group there are various ongoing initiatives and activities focused on the health and well-being of employees.

AMCO launched a Wellness Program in honour of dear friend and colleague Joseph ‘Joe’ Budha who suffered from diabetes and an untimely death which really impacted every member of staff. This served as a catalyst to take a step back and explore ways to assist employees in leading healthier lives. A Health and wellness week was hosted in October and included several activities: a session on learning to breathe and its impact on your body, a health and diet lecture, an Employee Health Fair including health screening and consultation, testing and vaccinations, First aid and CPR demonstrations, culminating in the participation by the staff in the Bubbles for life walk against Cancer.

ANSA Construction Sector – Berger Paints Jamaica Limited resumed weekly Football Matches at the end of 2022.

ANSA Packaging conducted an exercise to identify any health issues arising from work related activities. The scope included Physical Evaluations, Complete Blood Count, Fasting Blood Sugar, Audiometry Testing, Drug Testing for All Staff members. Pulmonary Testing was conducted for certain staff based on their job tasks. 247 persons completed the screening.

MENTAL HEALTH IS A KEY COMPONENT IN THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF EVERY EMPLOYEE’S LIFE.

In August 2022, AMCO launched its Rest, Relax and Recharge, a day off to focus on mental wellbeing, unplug and rest. Scheduled on 2 days, employees selected their day off with their line manager.

Our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) Provider Families in Action, is confidential and available free of charge to all employees and their families, and has received tremendously positive feedback.

Available and encouraged topics are: Achieving a Healthy Work-Life Balance, Mental Health, Positively Managing Stressors. In addition, crisis management interventions, grief counselling, emotional and financial counselling and Managerial coaching are all offered and utilised by a myriad of our staff.