2018 FLOR Awards
Recognitions
Corporations
Winner: Arredo
Finalists: Manpower, Grupo Newsan
SMEs
Winner: Zan, Bergel y Viñes Abogados
Finalists: Agente Central, Inclúyeme.com
NGOs
Winner: Fundación Todavía es Tiempo
Finalists: Asociación Civil Mujeres 2000, ATIADIM
Public Sector
Special Mention: Casa de la Moneda
Once again, Fundación FLOR held the FLOR Diversity Awards at the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange, with the purpose of promoting diversity management within organizations.
In its third consecutive year, Fundación FLOR expands its mission with a commitment to fostering value for diversity and inclusion.
The Foundation for Leadership and Responsible Organizations (FLOR) held the FLOR Diversity Awards, joined by more than 200 people, including business and organizational leaders from various sectors and industries, social organizations, and civil associations, special guests, and the entire FLOR Network, who year after year say "yes" to a more just and inclusive society that finds its greatest wealth in diversity.
This award was established to foster Diversity Management and recognize the significant efforts many organizations are already undertaking to move toward a more inclusive path. Many organizations have already begun working to create and develop a culture that values differences and embraces the richness of every person within their community. Today, some of these organizations serve as examples of this pursuit and open their doors to share how they do it.
Many organizations applied for this award to share and describe in detail the strategies they are developing to manage diversity. Furthermore, they shared the policies and actions implemented within their organizations to ensure that individuals can grow in an environment that embraces a plurality of perspectives, abilities, opinions, ideas, preferences, and gender.
Some of these steps include the creation of new internal policies, the implementation of programs aimed at fostering—for example—the promotion of more women into decision-making roles, the incorporation of employees with disabilities, training programs, and debate or support networks for specific topics. There are increasingly more strategies helping to achieve the ultimate goal: becoming a more inclusive society.
The Jury of Honor, composed of Daniel Arroyo (National Representative), Luis Ovsejevich (Founder and President of Fundación Konex), Bernardo Kosacoff (Economist, Professor at the University of Buenos Aires and Di Tella University), Fabiana Tuñez (Executive Director of INAM), Lucas Utrera (Director of Sustainability at SMS Latinoamérica), Laura Gaidulewickz (Founder and Director of Binden Group), Alejandro Melamed (Managing Director of Humanize Consulting), and Andrea Grobocopatel (President of Fundación FLOR), met to thoroughly evaluate each case and select the winners. The entire process was audited by the international consulting firm BDO.
Based on the characteristics of the nominated candidates, three categories were defined, taking into account the differences in scope and approaches to diversity according to the size or type of organization.