THE TEN BEST EMPLOYER IN MALAYSIA

Salam I stumbled upon this study while reading my new book: The Budget; How the Government is Spending OUR Money by Teh Chi-Chang. It is a nice and simple book about our budget and really an eye opener for someone who is literally at lost how our economy are being managed and what actually happen behind all the goodies and bonuses etc. This study is actually done by the Hewitt Associates, a human resource consultancy who did the yearly study to determine the best employer in the country and in the region. When I browse through the website and read the study, I found out it is a very good study judged by the professionals namely: academia, human resource profession and business community. Here I quote the statement regarding the study from the website

The Hewitt Best Employers in Asia is a study that examines people management practices in many of Asia's leading organizations. It provides insights into how organizations can achieve a real competitive advantage through their people, explores what makes an organization a good place to work and identifies a shortlist of Hewitt Best Employers in Asia.

However, I only quoting the result for Malaysian study only. So the result is as followed

1. The Ritz-Carlton, Kuala Lumpur
2. American Express (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd
3. Four Season Resort Langkawi
4. Federal Express Services (M) Sdn Bhd
   
5. Agilent Technologies
6. SP Setia Bhd
7. Hilton Kuala Lumpur
8. Intel Technology Sdn Bhd
9. Golden Arches Restaurants Sdn Bhd
10. Telekom Malaysia Bhd

The interesting facts about this is, only 2 of the selected employers actually a homegrown company. Namely SP Setia Bhd and Telekom Malaysia Bhd. The others are actually foreign company who provide the better service for their employees.

Something must be done to improve our companies performances in term of this. They must start to think beyond the limit of profit and more involve in human touch to further improve their credential and services in long term.

Good luck then to Malaysian companies.