UBL staff led by Ag. MD Eunice Waweru join other winners at Prudential Best HR Practice awards. Uganda Breweries Limited (UBL) was on 18th February 2022 recognized as the overall winner for the Best Human Resource (HR) Practices in Uganda during the Prudential Best HR Practices Report launch at Kampala Serena Hotel.
The recognition came following the Prudential Best HR practices survey with various industry players, on the best HR practices critical for influencing excellent employment practices in Uganda today.
The survey invited employees to comment, rate and assess their employers HR practices and policies by responding to questions in the survey in 12 different thematic areas such as organisation, performance and confidence, Leadership alignment and involvement, Collaboration and Communication, Reward and Recognition, Quality and Innovation, Diversity and Inclusion, Learning among others.
To emerge overall winner, UBL came among the top three in 6 different thematic areas of the study: Organisation Performance and Confidence, Quality and Innovation, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Compliance and Employee wellbeing and wellness.
The Brewery also received awards for two of the categories it was nominated in; Organisation Performance and Confidence as well as Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Compliance.
“The fore listed categories are core to the company’s operations as a business with some headlining our Society 2030: Spirit of Progress agenda. Diversity and Inclusion for instance, is an agenda through which UBL has been able to overcome long held societal beliefs and stereotypes at the work place,” UBL said in recognition of the awards.
It added, “In line with Diversity and Inclusion, at has employed women in production processes that were previously men’s stronghold. Currently, one of the production lines at the brewery is managed by a 75% female staff and has a production capacity of over 25,000 bottles. At the beginning of last year, as founder members of the Uganda Business and Disability Network, UBL committed to make our work place PWD accessible both in physical transformation of workplaces and creating an enabling psychological environment in readiness.”
As part of that commitment, UBL has held several de-biasing sessions to empower and prepare staff at UBL for a grander plan to ensure that at least 10% of all our recruits are people with disabilities. UBL’s Rosemary Nakuya receiving ESG Compliance Award on behalf of the company. She was accompanied by Ag. MD Eunice Waweru and CR Manger Jackie Tahakanizibwa The UBL Human Resource Director Catherine Njonjo, […]