Our Year in Review Strategy
Our Leadership
Divisions
Business Sustainability
Financials and Governance
BACK HOME
Our People
Our Communities
Health and Safety
Environment
Contribution to NZ Economy
Innovation
Business Sustainability
Fletcher Reinforcing, Levin
Whakatupu While we employ a significant number of Māori people overall, they are underrepresented in management positions. Our Whakatupu programme was introduced to specifically address this and improve the progression of Māori into leadership roles. The programme supports Māori to explore their heritage and develop their leadership potential. Throughout the year 54 people completed the programme in Auckland and Wellington. There is high demand for places in the programme, with a waitlist of participants for the next intake. Whakatupu received a highly commended in the Emerging Diversity and Inclusion category at the 2017 Diversity Awards NZ.
54 Māori completed the Whakatupu programme exploring their heritage and developing their leadership potential.
Women Facilitating an inclusive and motivating working environment for women is important to us. Ultimately, we want to create a culture in which gender diversity in management and our industry is the norm. For this reason we provide targeted development for high-performing women within the business. Fletcher Building is also a principal supporter of Global Women and runs a ‘FAB’ Women programme, an internal series of guest speakers to inspire, equip and train women from all levels of the business. Youth and new graduates We have a number of initiatives aimed at recruiting and supporting younger workers and those new to the workforce. In FY18 we launched Switch Up which is a game-changing online platform specifically designed to capture and support the recruitment of people transitioning from secondary school or unemployment. It does away with the traditional cover letter and CV based process and instead establishes
applicants’ suitability for employment through an easy-to-complete profile, activity-based questions, and an open day with business leaders. Since the initiative launched, 12 people have been successfully recruited into our businesses, including roles with Humes, Fletcher Steel, Laminex New Zealand, PlaceMakers, Winstone Aggregates and Iplex New Zealand. Our Connect Youth programme creates a community of young people who are new to Fletcher Building to help them ease into the business faster. These new employees connect through group learning modules and sessions and are further supported by mentors within the business. We have been running a graduate programme for four years. In FY18, we successfully placed 50 graduates into permanent positions within the company. In partnership with the First Foundation, we provide work experience and mentoring for high-potential students from low-decile schools. The programme gives preference to Year 12 students
AUCKLAND COUNCIL YOUNG AT HEART AWARDS X 4 Innovative Youth Employer Youth Employment Programme Youth Induction and Development Jobfest Exhibitor 2017
40 Fletcher Building Limited Annual Report 2018
Made with FlippingBook - professional solution for displaying marketing and sales documents online