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Cultural Diversity at Medibank
21 August 2009
George SavvidesManaging Director
Medibank Private
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Medibank’s Diversity & Inclusion Vision
• Medibank recognises diversity as character within our organisation shaping our culture as a differentiator. Our vision is to leverage our organisation’s character, ensuring that all employees are valued and viewed as team members benefiting from the diversity of our people to make better decisions.
• Medibank is focused on implementing and maintaining programs to increase staff engagement and productivity, whilst continuing to attract and retain a diverse workforce.
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Medibank’s Diversity & Inclusion Strategy
• Medibank’s Strategy embraces five diversity and inclusion priorities:
1. Generational Diversity
2. Cultural Diversity
3. Gender Diversity
4. Parental/Carer Diversity
5. Disability Diversity
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Cultural Diversity = Business Success
Medibank’s Purpose is to make its customer clearly better off…..
Medibank has 3.5 million customers – 1 in 6 Australians – so a culturally-diverse workforce is best placed to meet the needs of a culturally-diverse
customer base
PurposeCulturally diverse
workforce
Culturally diverse
customer base
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Medibank Strategy – Chinese Communities
Improve Retention
Raise BrandAwareness
Sustainable Competitive Advantage
Career opps for diverse workforce
Create CustomerAdvocacy
IncreaseAcquisition
• Medibank commenced its Ethnic Sales and Marketing Strategy over 3 years ago with the launch of its Haymarket Retail Centre.
• Objectives:
– Raise awareness and educate Sydney's Chinese speaking community to the benefits of PHI and in their native language.
– Demonstrate a commitment to the community to make the sales process of buying PHI an easier task.
– Assist the Chinese community to manage their health and get the most out of their cover.
– To demonstrate a genuine and truly culturally inclusive commitment to diversity.
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Integrated Approach
• The program has evolved from a single store to a fully integrated approach to speaking and engaging this community.
• While the critical components have been centred around communicating with the community, the results can only be attributed to the sum of all the parts.
• Moved from single state and single ethnic group.
Promotions
Collateral
Ethnic Media TargetedSponsorships
ReferralProgram
EducationSeminars
Bi-Lingual staff
Ethnic Marketing/
Sales Strategy
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Purpose Drives Performance
Purpose
15% of NSW policy joins.
6% of our membership base.
15% of our workforce speak either Cantonese or Mandarin.
Lower cost of acquisition.
In conjunction with our multicultural agent – Winner of 2006 National Multicultural Marketing Awards and 2007 Finalist.
Extended to other states.
Competitors locked out.
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Cultural Diversity Practice at Medibank
• Medibank recognises our customer base comes from different cultural backgrounds and with different needs.
• Our Purpose is to make our customers clearly better off.
• To meet the needs of our customers, we recruit a culturally diverse workforce depending on the demographic of our customer base.
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Chinese New Year
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Case Study – Hurstville Retail Centre
• Targeted approach to engaging the Chinese community with the“ We speak your language platform”.
• We have a very diverse workforce in our NSW retail stores.
• In our Hurstville store, there was friction between our staff members due to their different cultural backgrounds.
• We developed intervention strategies which included formal and informal meetings to increase the awareness and understanding of our diverse workforce.
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Interventions at Hurstville
• Formal interventions included:
– Cultural diversity training from People & Culture and Personality profile (MBTI).
• Informal interventions included:
– Team meetings lead by Retail Leadership Team.
– State General Manager re-enforced the company values and behaviours.
– State General Manager explained our Purpose – to make our members clearly better off.
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Values & Behaviour
Values = How we do our work
Purpose = Why we do our work
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Positive Outcomes from Hurstville
• The Interventions raised a greater understanding of our employees cultural backgrounds and differences.
• It allowed our employees to be more sensitive to each other’s cultural differences.
• Offered our employees an opportunity to learn another language and we were happy to pay for the cost.
• Through staff suggestions we widened our community program to sponsor not just the Chinese communities culturally significant events but also the boarder community events, eg. Spring Festival (Lungaro).
• Increased engagement of staff members by creating open dialogue.
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Vietnamese Community
• As part of the FY09 corporate planning process it was approved to extend this strategy to another community.
• Vietnamese was identified because:
– The size of community and the fact that it is geographically condensed within metropolitan Sydney.
– Specific and identifiable need – preference to discuss the health needs with individuals in the Vietnamese language.
– The Vietnamese community have high GP usage and are much higher risk for some medical conditions such as Cervical Cancer. Therefore the investment in health education should resonate very well.
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Cabramatta Kiosk
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Official Launch in Cabramatta
• The opening of Kiosk at Cabramatta and appointment of Ambassador were used as an opportunity to officially launch our Vietnamese Strategy.
• Over 130 of the local businesses attended the launch including representatives from members choice providers, GPs, Police, banks and key Vietnamese associations.
• Opportunity to engage the wider Medibank staff.
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Case Study – Liverpool Retail Centre
• To capture the diverse customer base in Liverpool, predominately Vietnamese, Medibank developed a Vietnamese Community Engagement Strategy.
• To engage our workforce and to get their buy in, we developed the following approach:
– Targeted and recruited more Vietnamese speakers.
– Up front we engaged our employees about our Vietnamese Strategy.
– Created an inclusive approach to targeting this group:
• All staff regardless of background participated in the launch dinner.
• All staff took part in the Moon Festival and TET Festival.
• This increased engagement but also understanding.
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Positive Outcomes from Liverpool
• The approach we used for the Vietnamese Strategy was very successful.
• Our employees were engaged in the process and felt included.
• They had a better understanding of why we need to create diversity.
• Participation in the cultural events has increased their understanding and enjoyment of what is means to be multicultural.
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Vietnamese Health & PHI Seminar
• Prevention and management of Bowel, Ovarian and Cervical Cancer.
• 230 attendees.
• Members and non members.
• All medical professionals from local Vietnamese Community.
• Entire Seminar presented in Vietnamese.
• Medibank component delivered by one of our Vietnamese staff members.
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Vietnamese Seminar
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Managing Good Practice in a Diverse Workforce
• Recognised the differences between our cultural diverse workforce.
• Supporting and training Leaders to be aware of differences and how to bridge them.
• Provided training to increase positive development and re-enforcement.
• Explained the benefits and appreciation of a diverse workforce.
• Utilised interventions that will create a positive outcome.
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Our Diverse Workforce
• Four years ago in NSW, we had only 6 people employed who were bi-lingual and came from a different cultural background.
• Today, we have 42 employees who speak another language, growing our diverse workforce in the retail network.