Saudi Basic Industries Corporation(SABIC) has been recognized as one of the world’s most valued employers by the Top Employers Institute, scoring the‘Top Employers Asia Pacific 2016’ titlefor the third consecutive year, as well asscoring ‘Top Employer 2016’ across five of the company’s key Asian markets,namely China, India, Japan, South Korea and Singapore. As evaluated by international research foundation Top Employers Institute, the company demonstrates the highest standards of excellence in employee management.
The Top Employers Institute globally certifies excellence in the conditions that employers create for their people.Optimal employee conditions ensure that people develop themselves person-ally and professionally.
Created in 1991, the ‘Top Employers’ certification follows a rigorous process including an audit by an independent audit, tax and advisory firm Grant Thornton, and comprehensively evaluates the participating company’s human resource standards and practices against an international benchmark.The specific areas of benchmarking are in strategy, policy implementation,communication of employee conditions and talent development. SABIC, established in 1976 with head-quarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has over 40 office locations within China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia,Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and Indonesia. The company operates nine manufacturing sites in China,South-east Asia, South Korea and Japan. The company runs a technology centre in India and two application centres in Japan and South Korea.
SABIC ranks among the world’s top petrochemical companies and is one of the market leaders in the production of polyethylene, polypropylene and other advanced thermoplastics, glycols, methanol and fertilizers. The company operates in more than 52 countries across the world with around 40,000 employees worldwide.
Established in 1994, India is one of the key markets for SABIC in Asia with one state-of-the-art technology centre at Bengaluru, one manufacturing facility at Baroda, and seven offices across India. Today, Asia is SABIC’s fastest growing region globally with strong double-digit growth.
SABIC’s businesses are grouped into chemicals, polymers, agrinutrients,metals and innovative plastics with re-search resources with innovation hubsin USA, Europe, Middle East, South East Asia and North East Asia.
Janardhanan Ramanujalu, vice president at SABIC South Asia, Australia &New Zealand says, “Winning the Top Employer Asia Pacific Award for the third consecutive time has reaffirmedour commitment to be an employer of choice and further contributes to our vision of being the preferred global leader in chemicals. At SABIC, we place talent development at the centre of our growth strategy and also nurture their ability to improve the communities in which they work through volunteering opportunities in the community.”
Lee Min Yin, senior director, human re-sources, Asia Pacific at SABIC says, “Human capital is the most vital asset within a high performing organization.At SABIC, we believe in nurturing an inclusive environment that encourages innovation, excellence and organizational effectiveness, with a strong focus on employees’ development. We will continue to push the boundaries to make work meaningful for our employees.”
Dennis Utter, global business director for the Top Employers Institute, comments, “Our extensive research concluded that SABIC Asia Pacific forms part of a select group of employers that advance employee conditions world-wide. Their people are well taken care of. It is commendable that SABIC has repeatedly received the Top Employers Asia Pacific certification, and remains at the top of an exclusive group of the world’s best employers.”
