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Workforce Initiatives
Working at Agilent
An innovative development program for all individual contributors -Working at Agilent - continued to be deployed companywide in 2010 to ensure employee engagement in the company's success.
The program is designed to empower, encourage and inspire employees to take initiative, think creatively, push beyond conventional limits and innovate as individual leaders in collaboration with their manager and colleagues. As such, Working at Agilent is in clear alignment with the key messages of Agilent's leadership curriculum. Participants create an action plan to keep their skills current for today and the future.
In 2010, Agilent held 134 sessions encompassing 2,792 participants. Evaluation of the program shows that 97 percent of attendees have either
 achieved or expect to achieve worthwhile business results from their participation in Working at Agilent. A total of 3,585 employees have now completed the program, representing 27 percent of Agilent employees worldwide. The plan is to deliver the program to all employees by October 31, 2014.
Agilent executives believe that Working at Agilent helps managers engage their employees, improve speed to opportunity and enable more employees to say with confidence that they are working on meaningful projects for a company that creates great value in the world.
This blended learning solution has pre-event activities which include a popular, customized e-learning module and a collaborative activity to do with the direct manager. During the one-day session, an Agilent leader presents and participates in a question-and-answer session as well as several experiential activities. All of the content is applied to actual business results.
Standards of Business Conduct
SBC is an integral part of Agilent's culture of ethics and compliance. All employees are trained in anticorruption policies and practices. It is Agilent's policy to comply with all applicable anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws such as the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and the laws enacted by countries which have adopted the Anti-Bribery Treaty of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In addition to SBC training, employees and managers are informed to ensure Agilent adheres to all laws and conducts its business practices in a fair and legal manner. Every Agilent employee participates in a training orientation covering Standards of Business Conduct and Agilent's Corporate Objectives and Culture.
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