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Culture and Values
Page Content Realize your abilities, not your boundaries
Our culture is founded on trust and collaboration, as well as top performers who challenge the status quo. Everything we do is designed to create an environment where your career will thrive. We encourage initiative, personal accountability and a diverse workplace. We create working opportunities with other colleagues and empower you to look for ways to improve our business.
Diversity is vital to our success
With today’s changing demographics and our own representation in places such as Brazil, China, India, Poland, Malaysia and Mexico, our success in supporting Canadian exporters depends on building a culture of collaboration that integrates varied skills and perspectives. We are committed to a corporate culture that is open to ethnic and professional diversity.
Our respect for diversity and for each other is more than just talk; it is firmly entrenched in the policies that provide the structure for our workplace environment and enables us to tap into the skills of knowledgeable and insightful people who will enrich your career.
Our role in promoting diversity
While the Employment Equity Act sets out regulations and guidelines for implementation, it does not involve creating new positions, filling quotas and hiring or promoting unqualified individuals. What it involves, and what we are committed to, includes:
- Surveying the EDC population by asking employees whether or not they are members of the designated groups, and conducting a workforce analysis to determine how representative our workforce is of Canadian society.
- Reviewing our employment systems, policies and practices to ensure there are no employment barriers for designated group members.
- Developing an Employment Equity plan that establishes or revises policies and practices, as required, to eliminate barriers and accommodate the special needs of designated groups.
- Creating awareness and support among management and staff for our Employment Equity plan, and establishing regular channels (the Management Advisory Group [MAG] and Sounding Board [SB]) for consultation and feedback on issues on an ongoing basis.
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Wei Song, Financing
As one of many EDCers with foreign language skills, I once assisted in deciphering Chinese financial statements. Given my Chinese banking experience, my help enabled the team to quickly conclude a transaction which led to the export of medical equipment.
 A rewarding career
Yolanda Banks, Corporate Responsibility
A highlight of my work was developing the Beyond Exports program, a partnership with CARE Canada to assign EDC staff to CARE micro-enterprise projects abroad. This allows us to invest in communities which are often in poor countries, while capturing the imagination of EDC staff.
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We help Canadian exporters reach their goals in ways that are sustainable, from environmental, human rights and lending perspectives. We go beyond the expected to help build business strategies that benefit all stakeholders. These are the principles that form the foundation for the way we do business:
- We conduct our business with honesty, integrity and fairness.
- We consider the environmental impacts of our business.
- We balance public accountability with customer confidentiality.
- We are active – both corporately and individually – in our communities.
- We create a climate that supports employee performance and development.
Employment Equity
All of our employees have an equal opportunity to succeed based solely on their abilities. We have a zero tolerance for discrimination and harassment.
What is employment equity?
Employment equity aims to ensure everyone in the workforce has equal opportunity. That is, no one is denied employment and benefits for reasons unrelated to ability. This vigilance is particularly necessary for specific groups who have been identified as disadvantaged in the Canadian labour force. These "designated" groups include women, Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities and visible minorities. Studies to date of salaries, occupations, career patterns and unemployment still indicate disparities in the Canadian workforce experiences of these groups compared to other working-age individuals.
The Canadian Employment Equity Act addresses these disparities by requiring all federally-regulated employers with 100 or more employees to:
- Eliminate employment barriers and correct workplace disadvantages experienced by the designated groups;
- Take proactive measures to enhance their employment opportunities and accommodate differences.
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We’re balancing opportunities and impacts
Find out how
2010 CSR Annual Report
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