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2001 Triple Bottom Line Report - BC Hydro

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B U I L D I N G A S T R O N G A N D<br />

C A P A B L E O R G A N I Z A T I O N<br />

Employee knowledge, commitment and innovation are crucial to our company’s future, especially as we further incorporate<br />

sustainability into <strong>BC</strong> <strong>Hydro</strong>’s core values and business strategies. Our goal is to foster high-performance teams of employees by<br />

sharing a common vision of excellence, investing in individual growth and development, and cultivating a work environment that<br />

encourages people to reach their full potential.<br />

We have identified workforce initiatives as being crucial to building a sustainable future. Demographic trends and competition<br />

for the best people mean we must work harder to attract and retain the skilled and qualified employees who are and will be the<br />

backbone of our organization. As well, over the next decade we will experience significant turnover due to the retirement of an<br />

aging workforce, and at a time of unprecedented shortages of skilled labour across North America.<br />

To meet these challenges, in <strong>2001</strong> we started work on several key initiatives to make <strong>BC</strong> <strong>Hydro</strong> an employer of choice. Programs directed<br />

at strategic workforce planning, competitive compensation, training and development, and succession planning have been developed<br />

to address the needs in areas expected to be hardest hit by attrition, turnover and competition for highly-skilled employees.<br />

S U S T A I N A B I L I T Y A C T I O N P L A N I N I T I A T I V E<br />

C O R P O R A T E S O C I A L R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y<br />

A three-year program was launched this year to supply<br />

one of the crucial pieces we need to build our future as a<br />

sustainable energy company: knowledge of how we impact<br />

the social bottom line.<br />

We are developing a measurement and decision-making<br />

structure to define corporate social responsibility and integrate<br />

it across our business structures.<br />

S O C I A L B O T T O M L I N E | 1 2<br />

SUPPORT COMMUNITY<br />

FORGE PARTNERSHIPS<br />

BUILDING A STRONG AND<br />

CAPABLE ORGANIZATION<br />

The program aims to unearth the social aspects of our business<br />

that contribute to shareholder value, and to change the way we<br />

conduct business to accrue that value. Results are expected to<br />

provide the foundation for defining, driving and delivering future<br />

corporate social responsibility activities across our business units.<br />

The program’s first year will define the company’s social responsibility<br />

principles and will develop strategies for their incorporation into<br />

our business. Years two and three will focus on implementing<br />

the resulting plans and monitoring our performance.

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