One big voice
As part of our One Big Team ethos, we connect regularly with colleagues across IMI to understand how engaged, happy and supported they feel in the business. In our 2023, our One Big Voice survey more than 8,000 colleagues shared their thoughts on how it feels to work at IMI.
DIFFERENCES ARE RESPECTED AT IMI
I AM TREATED FAIRLY AND WITH RESPECT AT WORK
I CAN BE MY AUTHENTIC SELF
Growth Hub
Growth Hub, IMI’s innovation engine, works by incubating start-ups within IMI, drawing on a diverse range of talent and experience from inside the business. Commercially, it’s a great success. Our internally incubated Growth Hub projects produced £89m of orders in 2023 (£52m in 2022). What makes Growth Hub even more exciting for our future is the way the process is already sparking a profound change in mindset at IMI.
Our people’s experience of inclusion and diversity at IMI
"Ensuring all our colleagues understand the importance of Inclusion & Diversity is very important to us. We use our annual IMI Way Day to collectively develop our awareness and understanding of different aspects of I&D. We take this special day each year to celebrate success, bring our values to life and give time volunteering in our local communities, creating a sense of pride and belonging."
Roy Twite, Chief Executive, IMI plc
“Working at IMI, I feel heard and valued. I see our values in action - colleagues are respectful and kind. We celebrate a wide variety of events throughout the year to learn about different cultures, all to encourage conversations that reinforce inclusion.”
Elizabeth Hubbard, Personal Assistant, Birmingham, UK
“It is about having that different mindset and being able to include more outside thinking.”
Mohamed Youssef, Site Leader, Farmington, USA
“Embracing diversity of thought and experience is integral to the Growth Hub. The best ideas have come out of people who have that diversity of thought. But you only get diversity of thought if you have diversity of people.”
Caroline Zyla, Head of Growth Hub, IMI Precision Engineering, UK
How we put inclusion & diversity into practice
At IMI, we feel it’s important for our leadership to connect and engage with all our team members, at every single one of our global sites. Our internal communication platform, Workplace, has truly transformed our ability as a business to reach our employees, initiate conversations and share news.
Most importantly, it is a great channel for celebrating our people and their contribution across all geographies, in local languages. We believe it helps us to encourage people to simply be who they want to be, through sharing their ideas and insights.
In particular, our Better Working World group continues to signpost best practice and helpful materials, as well as help all our employees highlighting changes they would like to see across the organisation. The I&D group receives some of the highest engagement rates on our Workplace platform and features personal stories and experiences from across the organisation.
Our Speak Up! Project is a confidential independent hotline that helps all our employees feel confident speaking up if they see inappropriate behaviour or experience anything that makes them feel uncomfortable in the workplace. Through the hotline, all employees are able to quickly and easily report any concerns in confidence. Reports are investigated thoroughly and, where required, action is taken to resolve issues.
At IMI we want all applicants and candidates for open roles to be welcome and comfortable during the hiring process. To be free to bring themselves to interviews and conversations with HR and hiring managers.
We have standardised our testing and interview processes, ensuring equity and transparency across the hiring experience. We also provide inclusion and diversity guidance to HR colleagues and hiring managers so that our hiring process reflects our business purpose and inclusive and diverse values. Our HR colleagues also undertake unconscious bias training to understand the impact this may have on recruitment decisions.
We are delighted that an employee-led Global Pride Network has been set up, with an Executive sponsor. The group comprises colleagues from across the globe who are either part of the LGBTQ+ community or wish to be allies. The group's focus for now is around support, awareness and events.
We also run campaigns internally for global awareness days such as International Women's Day, National Inclusion Week, World Mental Health Day and International Day for People with Disabilities.
June marks the start of Pride, a month-long global celebration of the LGBTQIA+ community. Members of our employee-led Global Pride Network took to the streets of Birmingham, UK at the end of May 2023 to take part in the Birmingham Pride Parade. At IMI we are proud to work as One Big Team and welcome inclusion and diversity in every sense. Watch the video below to see how our team celebrated!
Best Workplace Culture Award Winner
Explore how we built a positive and engaging workplace culture across of an organisation of 10,000 people and 50 countries.
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Gender and diversity in senior leadership
We have been focusing on three workstreams: Talent Attraction, Visibility and Development. Our Inclusion and Diversity policy has been fully integrated into each of these workstreams, ensuring that we continue to leverage inclusion and diversity as a key enabler to further develop our culture.
Our successful Catalyst programme for high-potential talent has continued with a second cohort, representing a gender balanced group more closely aligned in experience level. This programme is seeing excellent engagement and will continue into 2023.
WOMEN AT BOARD LEVEL
WOMEN AT EXECUTIVE LEVEL
WOMEN IN MANAGEMENT POSITIONS
NON-WHITE BOARD MEMBER
*We have introduced a target for women in management of 25% and are making progress in this area by reviewing the development and succession plans of diverse talent and putting in place processes to review the outcomes of internal promotion programmes such as our Catalyst programme.
The IMI Way Day
Each year, team members come together for one day to understand their connection to the wider IMI organisation and know they are a crucial element in our one big team.
The IMI Way Day
Inclusion and Diversity Policy
Inclusion and Diversity Policy
Find out more about IMI’s commitment and vision for ensuring equality of opportunity and fairness in all areas of our business.