Responsible business practices ‘no longer optional’, says WDC President Feriel Zerouki

The president of the World Diamond Council takes time out of her busy schedule to tell Rough&Polished readers about the critical work of the WDC. Zerouki, the first female present of the body, which includes all the important industry organizations among...

14 october 2024

James Campbell: Botswana Diamonds optimistic as it enters uncharted territory of using AI for mineral exploration

London-listed Botswana Diamonds has expressed optimism about the company’s use of artificial intelligence (AI) to scan the exploration database in Botswana to look for new mineralised deposits. Company managing director James Campbell told Rough...

07 october 2024

Artur Salyakayev: For me, happiness is freedom to make my ideas happen and create valuable products

Artur Salyakayev is an art entrepreneur, founder of the International Jewelry Academy (IJA) and the INCRUA jewelry company. He has initiated and developed successful projects in jewelry industry and services sector. He is also a leading expert...

30 september 2024

Paul Zimnisky: China key for sustained recovery in demand for natural diamonds, prices

The curtailing of upstream and midstream natural diamond production in the past months is starting to have an effect on prices, according to the New-York-based independent diamond and jewellery analyst and consultant, Paul Zimnisky. He told Rough & Polished’s...

23 september 2024

Vladimir Pilyushin: The jewelry market is not stand-alone and moves by the same laws as other markets

Vladimir Pilyushin is editor-in-chief of Russian Jeweler, a leading magazine about the jewelry industry in Russia. He told Rough&Polished about his view on the evolution of the jewelry industry in Russia and touched upon some of its problems.

16 september 2024

ALROSA significantly increases the level of employee engagement in 2022

03 march 2023
ALROSA summed up the results of the study of the level of employee engagement. In 2022 it increased by 14 percentage points to 71%, compared with 57% in 2021.
This is a significant increase in the indicator of loyalty of the team to the employer for enterprises with similar numbers and specifics, the final indicator exceeds the industry average.
The study involved 19,862 employees of the ALROSA Group (in 2021 – 17,239). 90% of employees noted that they make every possible effort to do their job as well as possible.
More than 70% of the participants reported that they are proud to work in the company and plan to work in it for a long time.
Systemic changes had a positive impact on the level of involvement: improvement of the supply system, indexation and revision of wages, expansion of the set of social benefits, improvement of working conditions and living conditions, improvement of the efficiency of the communication system and information cascading.
In addition, there is a significant increase in the transparency of the career development system: employees better understand the criteria for career growth and generally more often agree that they have growth opportunities in the company, alrosa.ru writes.

Alex Shishlo for Rough&Polished