Employee empowerment

Employee empowerment

The resilience and success of the Group depends on the continued commitment of our talented people. We strive to be the employer of choice, providing equal opportunities for development and ensuring a positive employee experience.

Our Human Capital strategy is focused on the following key areas:

Promoting diversity and equal opportunities

Attracting, developing and retaining top talent

Providing positive employee experiences

Promoting diversity and equal opportunities

We are committed to ensuring inclusion and equal opportunities in our organisation. We do not tolerate discrimination on any grounds, – be it gender, marital status, sexual orientation, race, ethnic origin, nationality, age, disability, political or religious beliefs, or on any other grounds under the applicable local law.

69%

Share of women in total employees

27%

Share of women in executive management

51%

Share of women in senior managerial positions

Attracting, developing and retaining top talents

 

Attracting, developing and retaining highly qualified talents

 

Putting the right people in the right roles.

 

Ensuring alignment of our talent strategy with business objectives by analysing and anticipating business needs and gaps in required skills and competencies.

We have various programs to support talents by creating unique opportunities for personal and professional development

Since 2017, Bank of Georgia’s Leaderator internship programme has been a dynamic career accelerator for young talent. We recruit promising undergraduates and engage them in professional training, job rotations across departments, and hands-on experience in ongoing projects. Leaderator participants are mentored by Bank of Georgia’s professionals.

376

Total participants since launch

79 %

Hired after programme completion

Through summer internship programme, we are able to offer practical experience to Georgian students studying abroad. This initiative connects us with talented individuals studying outside of Georgia.

 

12

Summer interns in 2023

Talent development

When we onboard employees, we shift the focus to their development. Talent development is an ongoing process that is critical no matter the tenure. We aspire to have a learning culture where employees can access opportunities for lifelong learning and personal development. Our learning and development ecosystem is divided into the Professional programmes, Management programmes and Executive programmes.

 

To read more about each, please visit our Annual Report 2023.

 

Listening to our employees

We ensure all our employees can directly and openly communicate with the senior leadership and the Supervisory Board of the Bank. We regularly engage with and listen to our employees through a number of channels:

 

Ongoing deep interviews with individual employees

Team reviews

Entry interviews

Exit interviews

Employee satisfaction surveys

CEO vlog on Workplace

Meetings with the Board

Agile quarterly business reviews

To measure the effectiveness of employee empowerment initiatives, we closely track employee engagement and corporate culture using internal and external surveys: employee engagement survey and eNPS

 

To view more please visit our Annual report 2023

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