Objective 2: Responsibility towards...our People
To support employers to create responsible workplaces where current and future employees make a positive difference.
The People strand of this strategy shows the development of our focus on the workplace, beyond the confines of those already in employment to encompass both current and future employees. This area of our work will undergo some restructuring during the next three years to reflect a shift in emphasis towards a more holistic approach to being a good employer. Workplace health and wellbeing remains central to the People strategy over the next three years, but will become part of the wider wellbeing and inclusion agenda, along with diversity and employability.
A key development under the People theme, will be a review of the Opportunity Now and Business Action on Health campaigns, with consideration given to the development of a standard to help companies measure and benchmark in this area.
The two main themes under People are:
- Wellbeing and inclusion – both in the current workplace in terms of issues such as equality & diversity and workplace health and in the future workforce through employability interventions such as the Employers’ Forum and the Graduate Acceleration Programme (GAP)
- Developing skills through volunteering – incorporating the Cares and Building on Talent programmes
Proposed Outcomes | Target | Example Activities |
| A workforce in Northern Ireland that includes and represents wider society | 50% of members focus on diversity as a business imperative | Clearly link diversity and inclusion with employer brand through regular communication and participation in internal and external events |
| A healthier society in Northern Ireland as a result of employers creating engaging and healthy workplace | 50% of members with proactive approaches to life-balance issues | Establish a sustainable learning community by developing a series of
Peer Networks in Belfast and the North West to engage businesses |
| Removal of barriers to employment and engaging long-term unemployed into jobs | 600 long-term unemployed into sustainable employment | Develop and publish toolkits to support employers Initiate a number of programme interventions targeting disadvantaged communities and groups |
| A culture of Employer Supported Volunteering across NI | 185 leading employers using volunteering strategically to develop their people | Targeting and recruitment of employers including SMEs to participate in employer supported volunteering |
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