People and culture
Goodman’s highest priority during this challenging year was to support our people and our stakeholders.
Fortunately, our corporate culture and values helped bond our teams around the world, while our agile working platform enabled us to adapt to the new working arrangements made necessary by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Our commitment to well-being and long-term thinking extends beyond just our people. Increasingly, developments across our portfolio feature well-being initiatives that benefit our customers too. These include health and recreation facilities, high-quality breakout spaces and, where possible, services like gymnasiums and cafés.
Goodman strives for a safe work culture with zero onsite fatalities across our global operations. We are working on gender equality in senior executive roles and prioritising human rights and business ethics in our supply chain.
Material issues
- Workplace safety
- Group and regional leadership
- ESG performance targets
- Diversity and inclusiveness
- Promotion of the Goodman values
- Social equity
- Customer well-being.
Target
Safe working environment
Progress
Implemented a safety framework across Goodman’s operations
Prioritised minimum safety standards and management of critical risk controls
Rolled out safety training and contractor management procedures.
Unfortunately in FY20, a delivery driver suffered fatal injuries while unloading his truck at a Goodman property in Chongqing, China and a person suffered a seizure while working from height on a principal contractor-controlled development site in Australia and later died
Target
Global supply chain ethics policy
Progress
Commenced a modern slavery evaluation process in Australia and drafted Goodman’s modern slavery statement
Commenced the expansion of the business ethics program
Completed a supply chain review in Australia with a focus on high-risk sectors
Target
Gender ratio of 50/50, with 40% female senior executives
Progress
Assessed current gender ratio at 43% female and 57% male, with 23% female senior executives
Target
100% of employees assessed as demonstrating Goodman’s values
Progress
Implemented a process to monitor how well Goodman’s people are meeting Goodman’s values
In August 2020, 98% of Goodman employees were assessed as ‘demonstrating’ or ‘exceeding’ Goodman’s values.
Goodman’s values and
our corporate culture
Goodman’s values shape our culture and enable us to attract high-calibre people. They ensure we are united in providing our customers and investors with high-quality service as well as innovative and sustainable property and investment solutions. Our values are global and very much alive wherever we operate.
- Customer+focus: Be closer to our customers’ world and their changing needs
- Innovative+dynamic: Be more creative in our thinking and dynamic in our actions
- Open+fair: Be adaptable and considerate in our dealings inside and outside our business
- Performance+drive: Do what we say we’ll do and make things happen
- Team+respect: Recognise the worth in each other and collaborate for better results.
