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Employee Learning and Development As per BAM ’ s sustainability report 2013 , BAM encourages their own employees to develop themselves by offering educational courses . BAM has built good relationships with various universities in order to provide professional educational access to its employees . In addition , BAM has developed its own training centres like BAM Business School , which is based in Netherlands and BAM Nuttall Academy , based in the United Kingdom . The following figure illustrates number of people who are getting the advantage of BAM ’ s educational programmes ( Figure 7 ).
Figure 7 : Attendances of BAM Business School / BAM Vocational School
Besides offering courses and training to its employees , BAM has developed a process in order to evaluate , track , record , and improve the performance of its employees through “ the performance management process ”, where the employees will discuss with their respective managers on annual basis a specific plan and targets in order to develop their personal performance .
Gender Diversity Like any other construction company , BAM group is dominated by the male gender . Therefore , the group has encouraged the presence of female in different departments in order to maintain the female representation in the company . The “ Female Capital BAM ” was formed by group of women as the main female association . The board meets with the “ Female Capital BAM ” periodically in order to discuss any obstacle encountered by the association and solve any challenge . In Figure 8 , the percentage distribution of male versus female at BAM is presented , while the percentage of female per level per country working for BAM is demonstrated . It is implied from the two diagrams , despite that small proportion of female working in the company compared to the male gender , there is good representation of female in the management level within BAM .
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