Barloworld careers

“Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success” – Henry Ford

We are a dynamic innovative and forward looking organization. We attract people of the highest calibre and reward them through a company recognition programme. We live up to a standard of honesty, reliability and integrity.

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“Success comes with developing the right values and behaviour in line with Value Based Management and our leadership philosophy”

Barloworld adopted VBM as a business philosophy in 1999 and it is at the heart of everything we do. It is through VBM that we seek to create value which will be equally beneficial to all our stakeholders: employees; shareholders; customers and community

The alignment and engagement of our 25 000 people with the objectives of the company is one of the core aspects necessary for the success of VBM. We accordingly place great emphasis on the development of our people and the creation of a stimulating, challenging and enjoyable work environment.

Barloworld Life
Barloworld supports an inspiring climate making everyone feel at home.

Hard work and initiative is recognized with the exclusive CEO award – an integral part of VBM.

A key development tool for our senior and emerging leaders is the leadership programmes we run though Pretoria University’s Gordon Institute of Business Science. In five years, 252 people have been though the executive development programme.

The people who work for Barloworld are the foundation of our success. We have undertaken many initiatives to create value through people and the lessons learnt have culminated in the formation of an integrated approach to value creation for all employees known as Employee Value Creation (EVC).

In 2005 we dedicated an average of 51 hours of training to every employee. Throughout our businesses, we actively encourage the submission of employee ideas that could lead to innovations in our products and services, and the way in which we currently do business, process, product and/or structure improvements.

Barloworld cares for its community! Our approach to communities is an integral part of the way we manage our business. We recognize our major impact on the social, environmental as well as economic well-being of communities where our operations are situated, especially in Africa.

People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Best Company to work for
Barloworld is a preferred employer through our efforts to create value for our employees. This is illustrated in our strong performance in the Deloitte “Best Company to Work For” survey conducted yearly in South Africa.

In 2005 PPC, our Cement and Lime business brought honour to the Barloworld Group when it achieved the highest position ever obtained by a resource based company in the “Deloitte Best Company to Work For” survey” Rod Burn

PPC also ranked first in the manufacturing, engineering and production category for the third consecutive year while Barloworld Logistics ranked first in the Logistics, shipping and transportation category.

“For us at PPC, winning the survey reflected the power of shared vision through our employees” – Orrie Fenn, COO PPC

Employment Equity
All Barloworld employees have equal opportunities for employment and advancement.

All of our South African businesses have Employment Equity plans, which have been agreed with our various employee representative organizations and have been lodged with the Department of labour. Comprehensive internal training programmes are in place at all levels.

In November 2004 Barloworld established a formal BEE policy. This policy is translated into shorter term objectives aligned to Barloworld’s five year strategy planning horizon. These are reviewed on an annual Basis.

Internships
Barloworld offers internship programmes in South Africa for the TOPP (Training Outside Public Practice) programme for Chartered accountants (CA’s), which aims to recruit and train prospective CA’s and leaders for Barloworld. This enables us to support our South African Institute of Chartered Accounts mandate as an “approved training organization”, meet Black Economic empowerment requirements, enhance our reputation as an “Employer of choice” and support the development of future skills for South Africa.

Bursaries are offered to students in South Africa who meet certain requirements by qualifying with a degree that can be leveraged by Barloworld. We fund studies with the agreement that once qualified a position will be taken in the company for a specified period of time.

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This page was updated on 29 June, 2006

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