{"id":10169,"date":"2020-12-15T01:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2020\/12\/15\/organizational-agility-amid-covid-19-gloom-helped-dbs-bank-nets-and-park-hotel-win-kincentrics-best-employers-2020-accolade\/"},"modified":"2020-12-15T01:55:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T01:55:00","slug":"organizational-agility-amid-covid-19-gloom-helped-dbs-bank-nets-and-park-hotel-win-kincentrics-best-employers-2020-accolade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2020\/12\/15\/organizational-agility-amid-covid-19-gloom-helped-dbs-bank-nets-and-park-hotel-win-kincentrics-best-employers-2020-accolade\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizational Agility amid COVID-19 gloom helped DBS Bank, NETS and Park Hotel win Kincentric&#8217;s Best Employers 2020 accolade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n                            <!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">\n                               DBS also emerged as a Best Employer in Asia Pacific for the fifth consecutive time, joined by Olam International this year.                            <\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a015 December 2020 &#8211;\u00a0DBS Bank, NETS, and Park Hotel have<br \/>\nemerged as Singapore&#8217;s Best Employers in 2020, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kincentric.com\/\">Kincentric<\/a>&#8216;s<br \/>\nBest Employer program that measures and recognizes extraordinary employers demonstrating<br \/>\nworkplace excellence. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DBS<br \/>\nwas also named Best Employer in 2020 for the fifth time in Asia Pacific, joined<br \/>\nby Olam International who bagged the accolade for the first time. Both<br \/>\norganizations achieved an exemplary score across all Best Employers indices in<br \/>\nEmployee Engagement, Organizational Agility, Engaging Leadership &amp; Talent<br \/>\nFocus, that placed them in the top quartile range for regional employers.<b\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Companies were evaluated on four key areas, namely &#8212; &#8216;Employee<br \/>\nEngagement&#8217;, &#8216;Organizational Agility&#8217;, &#8216;Engaging Leadership&#8217;, and &#8216;Talent Focus&#8217;.<br \/>\nA certified Best Employer organization will have its &#8216;Employee Engagement&#8217; score<br \/>\non par or better than the top quartile companies with two out of the three of other<br \/>\nfactors (i.e. &#8216;Organizational Agility&#8217;, &#8216;Engaging Leadership&#8217; and &#8216;Talent Focus&#8217;)<br \/>\nfalling within the range.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Agility Dividend Pays Off for Top Companies<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of the criteria covered in the Kincentric study, &#8216;Organizational Agility&#8217; was<br \/>\nfound to be a key factor that enabled Singapore employers who are in the top<br \/>\nquartile to do exceptionally well. Such firms, were found to perform 14% better<br \/>\non &#8216;Organizational Agility&#8217;, demonstrating that the ability to make rapid tactical<br \/>\nshifts in business decisions and people strategy amid a prolonged period of<br \/>\nuncertainty such as the COVID-19 pandemic, mattered the most for their<br \/>\nemployees.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Andrew How,<br \/>\nMarket Leader at Kincentric Singapore, said &#8220;The need for speed has never been<br \/>\ngreater and in a period where many businesses had to adjust and adapt to the<br \/>\nnew normal, our Best Employers have proven that they are able to accelerate<br \/>\ntheir decision making to remain agile and are always responsive to any<br \/>\nunexpected changes. Beyond that, the ability to manage change nimbly,<br \/>\ndemonstrates a change-ready culture that is entrenched within the companies,<br \/>\nwhere employees trust the leaders, are inspired by their vision, and feel<br \/>\nequally engaged in driving future success in the face of disruption. Organizational<br \/>\nagility, especially in the form of management preparedness will remain a key focus<br \/>\nfor years to come as they embark on a new workplace transformation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An open culture<br \/>\nand mindset nurtured by a resilient and engaging leadership were also found to accentuate<br \/>\nchange readiness, promoting the generous exchange of ideas, and sets the right<br \/>\nfoundation for &#8216;Organizational Agility&#8217;. Additionally, 85% of employees in such<br \/>\ncompanies based in Singapore, agreed that their organizations have a work<br \/>\nenvironment that is accepting of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.<br \/>\nEmployees also rated their senior leaders 15% higher than other firms for<br \/>\ninspiring them to be excited about the organization&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p><b>Top Companies Reskill<br \/>\nand Retrain Employees<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Top quartile<br \/>\ncompanies in Singapore were also found to pro-actively retrain and upskill<br \/>\ntheir workforce, with 78% rating their organizations highly for being<br \/>\nsupportive of their learning and development, as compared to 64% at other<br \/>\ncompanies in helping employees remain adaptable during these uncertain times.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We<br \/>\nwould like to congratulate all our winners for displaying extraordinary traits<br \/>\nof employer excellence, especially in an extremely unique and challenging year.<br \/>\nWe hope that they, and other organizations will continue to strive for success<br \/>\nas we head into an equally exciting new year,&#8221; added Andrew How, Market Leader<br \/>\nat Kincentric Singapore.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/View\/58261#Contact\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DBS also emerged as a Best Employer in Asia Pacific for the fifth consecutive time, joined by Olam International this year. SINGAPORE\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Media OutReach\u00a0&#8211;\u00a015 December 2020 &#8211;\u00a0DBS Bank, NETS, and Park Hotel have emerged as Singapore&#8217;s Best Employers in 2020, according to Kincentric&#8216;s Best Employer program that measures and recognizes extraordinary employers demonstrating workplace excellence. \u00a0 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}