Sustainable Action Driven by CIMB

In 2019, The Music Run by CIMB became Malaysia's first carbon neutral mass participation event. In addition to embedding sustainability principles throughout the event, there were also various messages to raise sustainability awareness of more than 20,000 runners. Beyond raising awareness, this event featured the following:

Diversity and inclusion strengthen our organisation. They are about empowering people by respecting their identity, their ideas, and their aspirations. It is the uniqueness of each employee that drives the company forward, fostering creative solutions and positive results to serve our customers, business associates, stakeholders and the community at large. We are committed to meritocracy, providing equal opportunities for employment, development and career progression, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, nationality or age. At CIMB, we aim to establish clear linkages between various dimensions of diversity (which is one of our core values) and employee morale, productivity, and their ability to innovate. It is also important to equip our diverse employees with opportunities to demonstrate their leadership and increase their share of voice in organisational decision-making processes.

CIMB Group Diversity Statement

At CIMB, we celebrate diversity. We recognise that employees are our greatest asset and it is the uniqueness of each of these individuals that drives the company forward. We believe diversity contributes to bringing creative solutions and positive results to serve our customers, business associates, stakeholders and the community at large. We take deliberate efforts to foster inclusiveness through our corporate values.

We instil in our employees the culture of respect, open engagement and teamwork, and we reinforce these behaviours in our daily work life. We are committed to strive towards providing equal opportunities for employment and development and career progression based on merits, without regard to their ethnicity, religion, gender, nationality or age. We promote work-life flexibility to enhance workplace wellness and help individuals to achieve quality of life and personal effectiveness. As a company with a firm foothold in ASEAN, our strength lies in our diversity and we will continue to uphold and champion our core values.

We believe that effective and efficient mechanisms to manage talent can ensure business continuity, productivity, performance and competitiveness. Hence, succession planning across all mission-critical functions of the organisation remains our priority. We seek opportunities to continuously upskill our high-potential talent, as well as maintain levels of motivation. We build trust and loyalty by making way for career satisfaction and growth.

We recognise the need to continuously boost the skills of both our current and future workforce. One of our future-proof strategies has been to establish the CIMB 3D (Digital, Data, and Design) Academy. While the idea is to enhance the digital quotient of all CIMBians across functions, our long-term aspiration is to build an agile, innovative and tech-savvy workforce, which will meaningfully contribute to the digital transformation of the Group.

The 3D Academy competency framework is anchored on six pillars, namely digital world awareness; agile and entrepreneurial thinking; future communication skills; risk and governance; human-centred design; and data science and analytics.