Our people
People drive performance and excellence. For our continued growth, we must have a work culture that embraces diversity as a strength, recognises inclusion as a powerful driver of progress, and where people are confident to share their perspectives, opinions and ideas. We have advanced our People strategy to attract and retain outstanding talent through a high-performance and inclusive culture where everyone can thrive and be their best.
In FY22, we:
- Continued to build leadership capability to drive behaviours for an inclusive workplace.
- Announced a dedicated Respect@Work function focused on actions aiming to prevent sexual assault and sexual harassment in the workplace.
- Introduced additional leave provisions to support employees.
- Strengthened our focus on diverse talent in our Early Careers engagement activities.
- Introduced our global career framework, empowering employee ownership of their career development.
Strengthening leader capability
An inclusive culture is critical in making our diverse team even more effective and successful by enabling us to tap into the wealth of knowledge and ideas of each team member, while supporting collaboration and teamwork for continuous improvement and innovation. Our Inclusive Leadership program brings together leaders from across our global operations to share, reflect and learn about ways to develop an inclusive culture.
During FY22, we commenced the cascade of our Inclusive Leadership program across our sites. Approximately 600 Newcrest leaders, from Executives and site General Managers to superintendents, supervisors and senior specialists, have completed the program to date across our teams. Plans are in place to continue this training for our leaders throughout FY23. We are also planning to roll out our new Psychological Safety program to foster an environment where people feel included, engaged and psychologically safe and empowered to speak up.
Building a diverse workforce
At Newcrest, we value diversity and embrace it as a strength. In FY22, we increased our overall global female representation from 15.6% to 16.5%1,2, with strong growth in female representation in Technology and Projects, Business Development and Exploration, at our Lihir Operations and across our manager population at Red Chris. These results are due in part to localised action plans that focus on broader applicant sourcing and talent retention.
1 Newcrest lodges annual reports with the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) in relation to its Australian operations. A copy of these reports may be obtained at www.wgea.gov.au.
2 Australian, PNG and Red Chris operations only (excludes Brucejack).
In line with our Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) 2021-2025 strategy, we introduced a new type of leave to our Australian workforce in December 2021, offering 15 days of paid Domestic Violence Leave.
Our Australian Parental Leave Standard was also updated to recognise stillbirth under the paid leave provision, and secondary carers’ leave was increased to 10 days
In FY22, we also expanded our Early Careers engagement activities to promote career opportunities and attract diverse talent to Newcrest and the mining industry. Our 2023 Australian Graduate program received our highest number of female applications, resulting in 15 females joining the program – our highest ever number of female graduates (representing 37% of the 41 positions currently filled).
Since 2020, we have seen a 150% increase in female graduates joining Newcrest.
Our operations also continued to embed their Inclusive Leadership charters and progress their Diversity and Inclusion Action Plans that included Women in Mining Network Mentoring Programs, an Indigenous Buddy Program and Inclusion Working Groups.
Emerging Talent Graduate Summit
In May 2022, we held our Graduate Summit in Melbourne, with graduates across all cohorts from Cadia, Telfer, Havieron and Lihir. This was the first summit in two years due to the pandemic and enabled us to bring our early careers talent together to learn, collaborate and form solid connections and relationships. This event was supported by executives and leaders from across the business. Excitingly, the graduates had an opportunity to participate in a Hackathon, where their presentations on culture and leadership were filmed and shared with Newcrest’s Executive.
