DIMO grabs several awards

‘Great Place to Work’ :

Diesel and Motor Engineering PLC (DIMO) has again been recognized as one of the ‘Great Places to Work in 2016’ in Sri Lanka. This is the fourth consecutive year that DIMO has achieved this accolade.

Each year, Great Place to Work (GPTW) partners with over 5,500 organizations with some 10 million employees worldwide to conduct the largest annual set of workplace culture studies in the world. This research which is laser-focused helps top leaders create their own great workplaces, according to a DIMO statement. This year Great Place to Work Sri Lanka, recognized 25 companies having the best conducive working environments for their staff. At an event held recently at Cinnamon Grand Hotel, GPTW representatives presented the GPTW 2016 Certificate to Chairman and Managing Director, DIMO, Ranjith Pandithage. DIMO carried away several awards at the event which included Best Public Limited Company (PLC), Special Category award for Excellence in Talent Acquisition and the top prize for ‘We love our Workplace’ video contest. Great workplaces are built through the day-to-day relationships, those employees experience. The key factor in common in these relationships is Trust. From the Employee’s perspective, a great workplace is one where they: Trust the people they work for; Have pride in what they do; and enjoy the people they work with. Building high quality relationships in the work place, trust, pride and camaraderie are the pillars of Great Place to Work institute. Trust is the defining principle of great workplaces - created through management’s credibility, the respect with which employees feel they are treated, and the extent to which employees expect to be treated fairly. The degree of pride and levels of authentic connection and camaraderie employees feel with one are additional essential components.