Employer of Choice
Being an employer of choice (“EoC”) is one of ICL’s main cultural values and a long-term goal of strategic importance. This requires ICL to be trustworthy, transparent, and accountable, with resolve to engage with employees fairly and decently. The company aspired to be an attentive organization, a place where its employees are proud to work in and able to fulfill themselves, and a work environment that enables people to perform their job successfully. ICL also strives to be an EoC by strengthening the company’s value proposition to its employees and by promoting ICL’s core values. As an EoC, ICL will be best positioned to retain and attract the best and most talented workers, which, in turn, will create opportunities for growth, both for the company and for those employees.
The company annually conducts a global Employer of Choice Survey, which addresses a variety of crucial topics, such as: leadership, enablement, development, meaning, employer brand, employee experience and more. The survey request is sent to nearly all ICL global employees and has a very high response rate (75% in 2020). The annual results allow the company to gather its employees’ input and opinions throughout the years, to map ICL’s strengths and the gaps and challenges that remain. This practice helps the company in building coherent improvement plans and in working together to make a difference, while constantly measuring progress. Read more regarding site-level details on the actions taken following employee feedback.
As part of its learning and development activities, ICL conducts unique workshops designated to help establish itself as an EoC. At sites across Europe, learning and organizational development managers conduct workshops to introduce the results of the internal ICL EoC survey. Through a structured process, participants are encouraged to devise actions that will contribute to ICL’s improvement, and to strengthening the relationship with its employees. In this manner, employees are actively involved in achieving positive change for the benefit of the company and its employees.
In Israel, ICL has begun to measure its progress towards this goal through active participation in the BDI code “Best Companies to Work for” ranking. This survey-based ranking measures the views of Israeli employees and managers regarding their current and preferred places of work and also takes into account their companies’ investment in human capital.
ICL’s recognition as an Employer of Choice is significantly increasing. Within the last two years, ICL’s has leaped from the 84th place to the 38th place, among all ranked companies in the BDI “Best Companies to Work for in Israel” index.
In the 2020 BDI ranking for “Best Companies to Work for”, ICL was ranked 38th among all Israeli ranked employers. ICL ranked in 5th place among all Israeli industrial companies.
Among noted results, based on a high level of participation in the survey, most of ICL’s dedicated employees marked ICL as a top 5 recommended workplace (82% vs 69% last year).
ICL aims to continue to participate and improve its ranking, leveraging EoC activities described in this Report.
