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Bahiana is the best company to work for in Bahia

Institution wins 1st place in GPTW 2018.

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The night before his 67th birthday, the Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública received a more than special gift, staying in 1nd place in the Best Companies to Work Award, within the ranking of large companies (with more than a thousand employees). The awards took place last Thursday, May 30, at Congrats Hall, and included companies from the education and training, production and manufacturing, healthcare, transportation and retail, information technology, finance and insurance sectors.

This is the sixth consecutive year that the Bahiana is recognized as a good place to work, ranking among the top five companies in Bahia for this requirement. The data collected from the award refer to 2018. Bahiana she was represented by the coordinator of People Development, Luiza Ribeiro, and by the manager of the Strategic Management of People and Learning (GEPAP), Telma Bastos. Collaborators and professors from the institution were also present.

The companies Atento Bahia, Dínamo Engenharia and G Barbosa Bahia came in second, third and fourth places. According to GPTW representative, Amanda Souza, in a statement given to Jornal Correio, men still play a prominent role in the leadership of organizations. She mentioned the aspects that most contribute to the permanence of employees in a company: growth opportunities and quality of life. “Happy people tend to be more productive”, she reinforced, who also highlighted the need for a balance in the female presence in organizations.
 



GPTW evaluation
The GPTW evaluation is asked in two moments. Initially, a survey is carried out with employees, which has a weight of 67%. The second part consists of an assessment of each company's cultural practices, which is equivalent to 33% of the entire study. A world authority in the Work Environment category, the GPTW considers the organizational climate, employee comments, cultural practices of organizations and people management for its verdict. Among the criteria evaluated this year are: quality of life, growth prospects and relationships.

In the GPTW 2018 survey, 1.000 (one thousand) survey forms were sent via email to employees, who responded anonymously and without obligation. 746 forms were answered, from which 957 comments were generated. Thus, the survey revealed an 89% satisfaction rate. The items with the highest scores were: "respect", "pride" and "credibility", with an average of 90%.

Benefits
Telma Bastos intuits that this is the result of institutional policies implemented in recent years. She explains that, at the end of 2017, benefits were offered that value the family's well-being. Among them, the possibility of reducing the workload for mothers who have returned from maternity leave, during the baby's first year of life, having been authorized by this employee to reduce their salary. Another benefit is the non-compensation of recesses for mothers with children up to 2 years of age. "We have a framework in which 66% of employees are women of childbearing age, so benefits such as these reach a large part of our employees". For men, paternity leave was extended from 5 days, as required by law, to 15 days. "We understand that this is a very difficult time for both the mother and the father and the child itself", explains Telma. For the couple, the institution created the Bahiana de Mel, where the honeymoon license is extended to five working days.

 

      

Telma clarifies that these initiatives are the result of listening to the individual sectors of the institution: "When we hear a pain, we have to keep in mind that this problem is not an isolated case, that that situation can also apply to other people, because we think about these types of benefits." Last year, the institution replaced the old health plan with one with greater coverage and nationwide coverage.

"Bahiana has as a guideline for everyone within the organization the focus on people. This concern starts with the selection process, when we try to identify in potential candidates the alignment with our values, with our institutional DNA. Our selection process is also different because it is formative, which allows an environment where everyone involved learns within the process", declared Telma Bastos, GEPAP manager at Bahiana.

For Luiza Ribeiro, People Development coordinator at Bahiana, some points led to Bahiana to first place: “We had the successful experience, from a vision of our GEPAP to use the GPTW as a climate monitoring instrument, that is, to understand how our employees feel in the Bahiana and, from there, identify which practices we were doing right and which needed to be created to improve the environment and the well-being of our employees in the Bahiana. "

 

      

Another important factor pointed out by Luiza Ribeiro is the fact that the institution acts with consistency between what it preaches and what it does: “When an institution works in a coherent way, that is, when it does what it proposes, it generates a enormous trust and brings partnership, collaboration and complicity... And the Bahiana is made of that. All of this has to do with affection, competence and professionalism. A third point that led us to this award was the persistence of always continuing with the desire to improve and make the Bahiana exist for another 67 years.”

The award came together with the institution's anniversary, celebrated on May 31st. Ribeiro emphasizes that the Bahiana it is every day more alive and renewed. "To renew itself, the Bahiana it needs to be connected with what is happening in the world, with the changes in society's behavior, with people's concerns, allying this with the institution's values. GPTW is an ideal reflection and synthesis medium for this. We were very happy to win our 1st place, which is of great value to us, because it is the testimonial of our employees telling us that they are fine, suggesting that we be creative, to do this Bahiana alive and affectionate as she is”, she concludes.



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