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United
Kingdom-based Investors in People (IiP) has endorsed a leading Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) company, MTN Nigeria as an Investor in People organization.
The DigitalSENSE Business News
investigations revealed that the formal accreditation was given by the
Investors in People (IiP) Governing Board to MTN Nigeria for being the foremost
to be so recognised in ECOWAS sub-region and across MTN Group line of
operations.
Also, DigitalSENSE Business News gathered
that the assessment of MTN Nigeria was carried out by a team of IiP assessors
from the UK and their findings paved the way for the accreditation.
Affirming
this, the Human Resources Executive, MTN Nigeria, Mrs. Amina Oyagbola, said
that achieving the IiP accreditation is a validation of the strength of MTN
Employee Value Proposition also known as the MTN Deal.
“MTN
Nigeria strongly believes that our people are our most critical competitive
asset and a key differentiator in the marketplace. The IiP accreditation is an
independent and objective confirmation that we care about our people and deploy
best practice people solutions and policies that make
MTN Nigeria a great place
to work,” she said.
Further, Oyagbola
said the company is particularly delighted by the accreditation as it reinforces
MTN’s position as an Employer of Choice.
She gave an example of one
of the five pillars of the company’s robust employee value proposition of Investing in Talent, MTN Nigeria
introduced the Accredited Learning Scheme (ALS) in 2005.
“This
initiative seeks to foster the educational and professional development of long
serving and high performing employees across the organization by providing the
platform for employees to continue their educational pursuits in reputable
universities in the UK while in full-time employment,” she said.
As said
by her, to date, close to a thousand personnels have taken advantage of the
scheme.
Further,
Oyagbola said that the ALS and MTN’s Talent development strategy amongst other people
investment interventions which had been carefully implemented over the years
have facilitated rapid career development and up-skilling of the Nigeria work-force
across all Divisions of the company.
She
commented that 99 per cent of MTN Nigeria’s workforce is Nigerian, and that 98 per cent of senior
management were also local staff, in line with MTN’s robust local content
policy.
Another laudable initiative is the development of a homegrown Career
Management Framework known as Y’ello Careers. Y’ello Careers was developed to
create employee awareness on career development opportunities and support
employee development and mobility.
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