Air Liquide China wins “Best Career Development Framework” award from Mercer

On October 14, Air Liquide China received the"Best Career Development Framework"award for 2016 at the Mercer'HR of the Future'awards ceremony. Held in Shanghai, the event featured Air Liquide China as the winner for this category.

Organized by Mercer, a global talent consulting firm, the Mercer HR of the Future Awards aim to identify and promote the most forward-looking HR management cases and most valuable HR practices in order to shed light on future trends in HR management. At the ceremony, five categories of awards were granted to nine enterprises among a total of 168 applicants.

Jasmine Wu, HR VP for Air Liquide China Cluster, said:"We are honored to receive this award, which recognizes our efforts in talent development. It is our long-standing goal to focus on strengthening employee engagement and leadership talent capabilities for the future, and to offer training and development programs that deliver real improvement for organizations."

Air Liquide China's appealing career development framework is mainly attributable to the company's bottom-to-top HR Review system, which includes key positions succession and key talent reviews, target-oriented employee development programs, and flexible e-HR tools. In particular, Air Liquide China is dedicated to cultivating a learning environment by encouraging on-the-job training as well as developing comprehensive coaching and mentoring programs to enhance employees' capabilities and to facilitate career advancement. In addition, the company implements a Technical Community Leader (TCL) system, which provides a parallel career pipeline for technical professionals. These comprehensive career development framework and practices ensure employee engagement and healthy organizational development.