Employer of Choice
Being an employer of choice (“EoC”) is one of ICL’s main cultural values and a long-term goal of strategic importance. This requires ICL to be trustworthy, transparent, and accountable, with resolve to engage with employees fairly and decently. The company aspired to be an attentive organization, a place where its employees are proud to work in and able to fulfill themselves, and a work environment that enables people to perform their job successfully. ICL also strives to be an EoC by strengthening the company’s value proposition to its employees and by promoting ICL’s core values. As an EoC, ICL will be best positioned to retain and attract the best and most talented workers, which, in turn, will create opportunities for growth, both for the company and for those employees.
On March 2019, the company performed its first global Employer of Choice Survey, which address a variety of crucial employer of choice topics, such as: leadership, enablement, development, meaning, employer brand, employee experience and more. The survey was sent to nearly all ICL global employees and reached a very high response rate. The survey will be performed on an annual basis, and its results will allow the company to gather its employees’ input and opinions throughout the years, map current gaps, build coherent improvement plans and work together to make a difference while constantly measuring its progress.
As part of its learning and development activities. ICL conducts unique workshops designated to help establish itself as an EoC. At sites across Europe, learning and organizational development managers conduct workshops to introduce the results of the internal ICL EoC survey. Through a structured process, participants are encouraged to devise actions that will contribute to ICL’s improvement, and to strengthening the relationship with its employees. In this manner, employees are actively involved in achieving positive change for the benefit of the company and its employees.
In Israel, ICL has begun to measure its progress towards this goal through active participation in the BDI code, “Best Companies to Work for” ranking. This survey-based ranking measures the views of Israeli employees and managers regarding their current and preferred places of work and also takes into account their companies’ investment in human capital.
In 2019, ICL achieved the highest improvement in rankings among all ranked companies in the BDI “Best Companies to Work for” index.
In the 2018 BDI ranking, ICL was ranked 84th among all Israeli ranked employers. In 2019, ICL achieved the highest increase in rankings among all ranked companies, and is now ranked 45th. ICL is in 5th place among industrial companies. ICL aims to continue to participate and improve its ranking, leveraging EoC activities described in this Report. The remarkable results in 2019 were achieved due to the involvement and high level of participation of ICL’s employees.
