"The company's role is not only economic... Each company should be able to invest itself with the resources at its disposal, so that the Cité does better" Claude BEBEAR Chairman of IMS Entreprendre pour la Cité
Created in 1986, IMS-Entreprendre pour la Cité groups a network of 200 companies. Its vocation is to help them in integrating innovative Social Commitments in their Social Responsibility policy that fulfil their development challenges as well as the Society's expectations.
Social Commitments mean all the initiatives of the company that contribute to the social cohesion and to the development of the territories where it is based: solidarity partnerships, integration of people that have been distanced from the world of employment, promotion of non-discrimination and management of diversity, access of products and services to population under duress, support for local socio-economic development, especially in sensitive localities, etc.
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SOTRALENTZ, founder member of IMS Alsace
Being a founder member of IMS Alsace, the SOTRALENTZ Group is committed to encourage access to employment to potentially discriminated persons in each of its subsidiaries. Amongst the most marked actions are:
In the last few years, special attention was paid to the integration of handicapped persons in several vacant positions, such as ground agent, welder, Human Resources, etc. Some of these recruitments were made through the MRS method (Recruitment by Simulation Method), which is based on tests that, by analogy, recreate the skills needed to perform the job. These "skills" correspond to all the abilities that an applicant has developed within, or outside, his professional life. They do not necessarily appear in a biodata, but are necessary to carry out a work.
In industrial sectors usually reserved for men, this integration also includes the recruitment of women for the posts of welders and assemblers... that have been held by men since 1904! This policy was applied to other areas of the company, to management positions: finance, production, communication, etc.
These recruitments were possible due to an innovative policy that was encouraged by the Group's General Management. This volition is also illustrated by the recruitment of collaborators from minority groups to strategic positions for the development of some activities. Thus, a young engineer woman of North African origin (from the Maghreb) was recruited at the end of her studies, to support the development of SOTRALENTZ's activity in the field of sanitation.
