Environment, Community and Our People

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Sustainability can mean many things. It can be directly related to how we care for our environment and our best attempts to reduce our carbon footprint. Or it can be about the significant practices we instill into the culture of our organisation to make it a meaningful, inclusive, and enjoyable workplace for our staff. It can also mean nurturing ownership and ensuring the continuation of a project by its benefactors, long after the project pioneers have withdrawn from it. At IMU, we have tried to incorporate these three different dimensions in the following areas: Environment, Community Engagement and Our People.

Environment

As a university and healthcare provider with thousands of people under our wing, we consume much energy and produce large amounts of waste. We see the need to live and work sustainably and responsibly, while continually inculcating the importance of conservation.

Community Engagement

The University’s long-term and sustainable goals of being a diverse and inclusive community are seen through the positive impact made among the IMU Community comprising of students, staff and alumni, as well as the community at large. These initiatives are driven through a community-based participatory research approach, service learning and outreach services focus that are aligned with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG).

Providing multiple platforms of engagement via service learning in the formal curriculum to IMU Cares – the University’s outreach programme to student-led community charity clinics, clubs, societies and the IMU District Partnership Initiative (DPI), the community engagement’s office oversees the University’s commitment to sustainability, community, and social activities.

Click here to learn more about our IMU Cares programme.

Our People

Our staff and faculty are IMU’s greatest asset and while we do have financial objectives and strategies as an organisation, they do not trump the desire to provide a conducive work-environment.

We want to retain our people for as long as possible. By applying sustainability into the DNA of our human resources blueprint, we attract the best talents and keep them.

We do this by nurturing ownership, prioritising ethics and quality over profits and by fostering shared vision and goals. We also provide volunteering opportunities for our staff, continuous training and regular reviewing of workplace practices.

These pursuits boost employee morale and keep them engaged and fulfilled.

Our efforts were acknowledged when we were awarded the AIA Vitality’s 2019 Malaysia’s Healthiest Workplace and Malaysia’s Healthiest Employer for a medium-sized organisation.