Activities

In order to achieve its objectives, the Àncora Project takes three lines of approach:

1) To encourage job quality and security, Àncora designs and tests a complementary model to aid and advise the company, this consists of:

• The training of specialists who will implement the model in the workplace, Àncora calls these ‘Work Integration Consultants’
• The recognition and acquisition of companies and employees (100) likely to form part of this experimental product.
• The training of personnel from the company itself. For example, managers will promote equal opportunities as well as helping employees with problems to adapt.
• The design of individual adaptation plans for the company, which will provide an analysis of the competence and personal circumstances of the employee and of the company itself. This will set in motion the processes that will assure greater job-employee versatility.
• Personal supervision of the worker and the company while the adaptation plans are set in motion and developed

2) In order to encourage the Social Responsibility of Companies, the Àncora Project has created an Observatory for the Social Responsibility of Companies and for its continuing development. This Observatory:

• promotes responsible practices to the company, particularly in terms of improvement and continuation of the work-station, through seminars, conferences and publications about this subject.
• encourages decision making, allowing for new business enterprises and activity, provides interesting economic and social displays for the region, and periodically broadcasts up-to-date reports.
• develops an interactive database of regional socio-economic information, accessible from its web page, which is divided between the social and economic agents of the region.

3) In order to promote the public-private cooperation procedures as regards the compromise of work and family life, the activities of the Àncora Project will be directed towards:

Diagnosing and analysing the suitability of resources as regards the compromise of the needs of the women and the companies that cohabit the region.

• The testing of new services for this compromise: babysitting networks, flexible crèche hours, help with mobility, concessions for domestic help, among other benefits arising from the project’s investigation.
• Sensitising the actions surrounding the social, economic and institutional factors in order to promote equality between the sexes and a compromise between family and work life.