Geneva, December 4, 2017 – JTI (Japan Tobacco International) has once again been recognized with the prestigious Top Employer certification in the Asia Pacific region for the fourth consecutive year. Along with the regional award, nine JTI offices and factories in eight countries - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Russia, Singapore and Thailand - also received the national Top Employer certification.
“Our continued success as a Top Employer in the region is a recognition of the high standards we set ourselves”, says Mike Griffiths, JTI’s Human Resources Vice President for Asia Pacific. “Investing in our people is the cornerstone of our HR strategy in order to enable our employees to develop a fulfilling career within JTI, and to grow into future leaders. A good example is our recent pan-regional Asia Pacific Management Trainee Programme explorethat builds functional expertise and a broad business perspective with multicultural awareness, through rotational assignments across the region.”
David Plink, CEO at the Top Employers Institute, confirms: “Our extensive research concluded that JTI forms part of a select group of employers that advance employee conditions worldwide. Their people are well taken care of. Having reconfirmed their outstanding HR practices again this year in the Asia-Pacific region, they can truly consider themselves at the top of an exclusive group of the world’s best employers.” [...]