The Top Employers Institute is the global HR authority on certifying excellence in employee conditions.
For over 25 years, the Top Employers Institute has been dedicated to accelerating the impact of people strategies to enrich the world of work through certification, benchmarking and connecting Top Employers around the world. Through our HR Best Practices Survey, we enable organisations to assess and improve their workplace environment. The leading edge international research provided by the Top Employers Institute each year determines whether an organisation meets the required standard of excellence for certification as a Top Employer.
We certify organisations in single countries, on different continents and even on a global scale. We recognise Top Employers based on a global six-stage Certification Programme governed by a standardised process, recognising the conditions created by organisations for a “best-in-class” development environment for employees.
It gives me great pleasure to share an overview and some of the main research highlights and statistics from this year’s Top Employers Certification Programme conducted in Africa:
These high-performing organisations were officially certified at the annual Certification Dinner on October 4, 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa. They then became a part of an exclusive global “employer of choice” community and can credibly lay claim to having achieved certified excellence in employee conditions for a year.
I’d like to take this opportunity to congratulate Africa’s Top Employers 2019. These are organisations of the highest calibre, continuously working hard to create, implement and progress their people strategies and practices.
They provide an outstanding experience through “best-in-class” workplace programmes, creating a thriving environment that empowers and develops employees at all levels.
Billy Elliott is Top Employers Institute Country Manager: Africa
Top Employer Institute: research methodology
Companies with a proven strategic investment in employee conditions can earn the certification as a Top Employer after completing a six-stage Certification Programme, to determine if their results in the HR Best Practices Survey meet the global certification cut-off.
The research process is standard across all territories, and the certification itself is based on a universal standard, which means HR policies, practices and employee conditions covered in the HR Best Practices Survey can be applied globally. The programme’s six stages are:
At the core of the Top Employer Certification Programme is the HR Best Practices Survey. The Top Employers Institute strives to keep the certification standard reflective of global trends in HR and people development. The HR Best Practices Survey is thus reviewed and updated annually. Over the years we have collaborated with stakeholders in multiple countries (partners, industry experts, universities, HR professionals, consultancy companies and our Top Employers) who have validated the HR Best Practices Survey and assisted with its development, to make it the progressive survey it is today.
The HR Best Practices Survey
The HR Best Practices Survey covers 10 topics. Spanning these topics are 100 questions covering approximately 600 practices. Each topic is structured to ask questions that cover the following as they relate to the specific practice or policy.
The survey contains 10 topics:
A. Talent Strategy
B. Workforce Planning
C. Talent Acquisition
D. On-boarding
E. Learning & Development
F. Performance Management
G. Leadership Development
H. Career and Succession Management
I. Compensation and Benefits
J. Culture
Structure of the questions within the topics: