Gamesa launches a corporate university to enhance the employability of its workforce, Gamesa

Release Date: 2010-06-01

Madrid/Bilbao, 1 June 2010. Gamesa is pleased to announce the launch of its Corporate University, with which the company aims to contribute to the employability of its workforce and to foster employees’ commitment to and alignment with our corporate strategy and culture

The Gamesa Corporate University’s global scope will allow it to extend its reach to all of the regions in which the company has delegations and manufacturing facilities, as well as to its businesses and activities, occupational categories and areas of know-how. The University’s comprehensiveness will also make it accessible to the rest of the value chain, such as customers and suppliers.

The Gamesa Corporate University transcends the traditional understanding of these institutions just focused on training courses. Gamesa University offers a comprehensive talent life cycle management and encompasses a range of activities, such as organisation, recruiting, assessment, knowledge management and career training and professional experiences, in a single programme.

This initiative is intended to meet the needs of a changing business environment, which requires qualified and flexible human capital. “A company's talent is not immune to the social, economic, technological and regulatory changes taking place around it,” said Juana Mª Fernández, Gamesa’s managing director for Human Resources. “The speed and frequency of corporate change and the emergence of the knowledge-based economy require that we develop initiatives to promote branding and talent attraction, which will assist us in becoming an ‘employer of reference’ and help to boost our employees’ commitment to and alignment with the company’s strategy and culture.”

To this end, the availability of information and communication technologies represents an opportunity for effective staff development management.

“This idea began to take shape in 2008 in response to the needs of expanding worldwide and hiring global talent. At that moment, we started to discuss the need of establishing an institution to guarantee the employability of our workforce and include comprehensive management of activities that direct impact professional development. To this end, this programme transcends the traditional understanding of these institutions at most companies, since in our case, and as part of the same project, we are including comprehensive employee talent management," said Eduardo García Gerboles, director of the Gamesa Corporate University.

Type:	NORMAL
Company:	Gamesa
Country:	Spain