Employees of locator companies in the Subic Bay Freeport join a workshop on corporate core-value formation as part of a program to improve productivity in the workplace.
Photo by Malou Dungog
SUBIC BAY FREEPORT — The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) is now inviting locator-companies in the Subic Bay Freeport Zone to send their employees to workshops on corporate core-value formation, as part of the agency’s thrust to improve productivity in the workplace.
Lolita Mallari, manager of the SBMA Human Resources Management Department, said that the agency has recently partnered with Evangelion Foundation, Inc. (EFI), a non-stock, non-profit organization providing high-impact and high-driven value formation seminars, to conduct training on corporate core-value formation for company workers in this freeport.
The training specifically targets human resource managers, supervisors and trainors, who can, in turn, train fellow employees in their respective companies.
“This is in line with the vision of SBMA to transform Subic Bay into a competitive eco-urban tourism center where workers and employers work together in the essence of malasakit, passion and excellence—the core values adopted by the SBMA,” Mallari said.
“We believe that if we could develop the inner spiritual goodness of workers, they will perform their best and there would be no reason why they cannot attain success in all their endeavors for their companies,” she added.
SBMA Labor Department manager Severo Pastor Jr. said that moral and spiritual values, as well as work ethics, are always a part of the agency’s regular labor education and workers orientation program given to all workers in the free port.
The program focuses on the enhancement of labor productivity, workplace harmony, and industrial peace.
“This also helps uplift the workers’ morale and change their outlook to become globally competitive,” he said.
Pastor also noted that among the manifestations of the SBMA program is the success of the annual search for outstanding workers in the Subic Freeport, as well as the regular forum “Bridging the Gap,” which addresses issues in the workplace.
Pastor said the Evangelion workshop complements the SBMA thrust, as it helps strengthen the moral and spiritual values of workers, and promote healthy, peaceful and meaningful relationships in the community.
EFI facilitator Apollo Magno said that his group has already conducted the first training for Subic locator-companies with the help of the SBMA HRMD and the SBMA Labor Department.
A total of 15 employees from locator firms joined the workshop.
“Like what the SBMA is doing as part of its development program for employees, the first of the trainors’ training for locators was focused on Basic Value Formation to give them a ‘taste’ of the program and to let them see its importance,” Magno said.
He said the first module is all about self-awareness or finding the core value.
This is designed to help people discover the inner goodness in them, which will drive them to work with pride and the sense of worthiness of what they are doing, Magno explained.
The second module, which is called “living the core value”, focuses on work, workers and the workplace.
“For Evangelion, this is not just work, but a mission which focuses on work, the person that does the work and, of course, as part of our program, towards the spiritual dimensions,” Magno also said.
