Industry Public Sector

Employees 13

The Entrepreneurial Centre of the Krapina-Zagorje County – MAMFORCE Standard in CHANGE Category

The Entrepreneurial Centre of Krapina-Zagorje County is the place where ideas turn to entrepreneurship, and innovation into new products and services. Their mission is to foster the growth of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the County through business support and mentoring of start-ups, established companies, ad research organisations, and by connecting them to venture capital. They aim to create a positive impact on the region by empowering entrepreneurs, and by helping them reach their goals. The principal values guiding their work are authenticity, creativity, and collaboration, leading to consistent success.

Industry Public Sector

Employees 13

Challenges

Improving employees’ work-life balance
Elimination of discrimination based on gender or parental status
Greater employee satisfaction and engagement
Better support to working parents
Promotion of female talents in the community

Review - osvrt - Helena Matusa

By participating in the MAMFORCE certification process, the employees at the Entrepreneurial Centre of the Krapina-Zagorje County were empowered to seek a better work-life balance. The certification has not been a one-off event, but has prompted us to develop a lasting culture of respect and support for all employees. We have learned to recognise unconscious bias and to prevent it, and have gotten the tools for better communication and team work.

The new policies and practices we have introduced are conducive to flexible work, remote work, teamwork, and collaboration. We now have the policy of regular discussions on work-life balance issues, which contributed to employee satisfaction and a positive atmosphere.

In all this, our employees have gotten a chance to achieve their full potential at work, and to be fulfilled and happy in their private lives as well. We now feel as a part of the community that prizes and supports work-life balance, and this culture is the lasting value to our company.

Helena Matusa,

Director

MAMFORCE Partnership

The annual action plan, developed during MAMFORCE certification, was focused primarily on the elimination of discrimination based on gender or parental status, on the development of policies designed to improve workplace equality, and on the creation of the climate of support for employees in balancing their business-related and private obligations.

By developing a good practice example of the Bias-Free Place, the employees were trained on invisible bias regarding gender and parenthood in the workplace. At the same time, supervisors were trained on equality and equity in the workplace, to develop their inclusive leadership competences. It led to the extraordinary score of 98%, given by the employees.

The survey on employee preferences, carried out in collaboration with the MAMFORCE Team, has resulted in the introduction of additional flexible working arrangements, paid leave for child’s first day of school or kindergarten, more flexible use of vacation. The role of fathers in childcare and their taking the paternal leave was promoted, and Open Days for employees’ children have been instituted. All of this produced a significant increase in employee engagement and the perception of the support to work-life balance, which now stands at 95%. This helped position the Entrepreneurial Centre as an employer of choice, as well as a family-friendly and equal opportunity employer.

Results

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Better Engagement

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Better Work-life Balance

Employee testimonials

Experience - Melita Golub

Melita Golub,

Office Manager

Through the introduction of MAMFORCE Standard, I was given the chance to finally balance my work and family life. My family is very happy with that. This flexibility has also helped me to be more productive and more motivated in the company. I can highly recommend the adoption of the MAMFORCE Standard to all companies, meaning that they should enable their employees to reach the work-life balance, because they will gain a happy employee, and the saying goes: “only the happy employee is a good employee

Experience - Zeljka Grmovsek

Zeljka Grmovsek,

Project Manager

The MAMFORCE Standard helped me feel secure in my job through flexibility and other benefits that it brought along. As a mother of a six-year-old starting the kindergarten, I was worried about the frequent illnesses, but MAMFORCE has enabled me to do a good job for the very reason of the security I just mentioned. In my opinion, such a positive working environment and business culture supports the employees’ growth, and their better effectiveness as well.

Experience - Denis Ranogajec

Denis Ranogajec,

Deputy Director

The introduction of the MAMFORCE Standard enabled us to have a better work-life balance. It helped me to be more involved in my child’s life as a father. The improved satisfaction can be observed with all employees, in all aspects of our business, and is reflected in their productivity as well.

PROJECT COORDINATOR

PARTNERS

Croatian County Association

Spona Code

The implementation of the project is co-financed by the European Commission through the REC (Rights, Equality and Citizenship) program.

This information was published as part of the EU project “Redefine Work-Life for Women and Men” with the financial support of the European Union Program “Rights, Equality and Citizenship” (2014-2020). Spona Code is solely responsible for the content of this website. The European Commission does not accept any responsibility for how the information on this website will be used.

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