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As a forward-looking employer, we invest in enhancing our
people’s skills and knowledge, providing career opportunities
through challenging assignments, and creating a friendly
environment that promotes teamwork.
To build a performance-driven culture, we have adopted a
systematic approach in performance management. At the
organisational level, we use a Balanced Scorecard (“BSC”)
approach for performance targets setting, and these are
cascaded to departments and individual performance
objectives. BSC targets are tracked and reviewed on a
quarterly basis.
Our reward and recognition strategy aims to inculcate
the right values and reinforce positive behaviours to drive
employee performance.We reward staff based on their
contributions by adopting a ‘Pay for Performance’ approach
to strengthen our performance-driven culture.
Besides the formal reward and recognition through salary
adjustment and variable bonus, there are other forms
of rewards and recognition to encourage outstanding
performance and reinforce positive behaviours:
Long Service Awards;
Qualifcation Awards;
Service Excellence Awards; and
Innovation Awards.
Art Chennai
International Tech Park Chennai was one of the venues
for the popular ‘Art Chennai’, a week long art festival
featuring modern and contemporary art that was held in
February 2014. The event was held in association with ART
CHENNAI, one of South India’s largest art festivals, for the
second consecutive year.
The installation at International Tech Park Chennai called
‘Liberation of Confnement’ by Sachin George Sebastian
is made of paper. The artist works with paper by cleverly
manipulating paper to create multitudes of experiences
– dense and singular, solid and featherweight, multi and
one-dimensional.
Health & safety
Workplace health and safety is a key measure for us and
in 2013 we are happy to report that we have maintained
our compliance to Ascendas Group’sWorkplace Safety and
Health Management System policy, and there have been no
health and safety incidents reported at any of our locations.
We have also surveyed our contractors’ compliance and
are pleased to report that there have been no reported
incidents of non-compliance for FY13/14. To date, we have
recorded no incidents or fnes for non-compliance related to
environmental laws.
We will continue to assess the health and safety impact
of our operations through the life cycle of our activities,
from project development through property management
to property enhancement stages. In our development and
enhancement activities, we ensure that we work with
qualifed contractors and we hold them responsible for the
management of required health and safety standards.
Community
We are committed to supporting the communities in which
we operate.We seek to engage positively with community
stakeholders and work in partnership with them. By
volunteering and donating our resources and expertise to
support a myriad community and charity efforts, we hope to
make an impact in our key focus areas of arts, community,
and environment. In FY13/14, we spent a total of 885
working hours in volunteer activities at various benefciaries
in India.
Arts
We support and nurture budding artists, and further enrich
and grow audiences to support the development of local arts.
CASE STUDY
Sustainability report