MicHoldings has worked hard to promote progress in diversity and to create an inclusive environment that encourages every employee to contribute to the success of the business. An environment that fosters dignity and respect, where every employee is fully engaged and committed to building the business, is critical to our success. We need the full spirit, commitment, energy and talent of all our employees to face the business challenges and opportunities ahead.

To ensure that we are able to attract, develop, and retain the most talented individuals who can work closely with our clients, guardians, family members of clients and provider relations at different agencies, we need to get optimal performance from every employee by providing a work environment free of harassment or other artificial barriers based on race, gender, religion, culture, disabilities, or sexual orientation.

Definition

Work Life is the practice of providing initiatives designed to create a more flexible, supportive work environment, enabling employees to focus on work tasks while at work. It includes:

• making the culture more supportive,
• adding programs to meet life event needs,
• ensuring that policies give employees as much control as possible over their lives,
• using flexible work practices, and
• providing tools to assist employees with being as productive as possible on the job ... as a strategy to meet the dual agenda – the needs of both business and employees.

Strategy

Utilize work practices and behaviors that support flexibility.

Objectives

• Create the most motivated and competitive workforce possible by:
• Attracting and retaining the best talent
• Generating goodwill toward Micholdings externally and internally
• Maximizing short- and long-term human resource efficiency
• Creating cultural acceptance of Work Life concept.

MicHoldings, Inc. is a Michigan organization with employees, clients and customers around Michigan. That’s why we are working hard to ensure that everyone is welcome, supported, and encouraged to find success within our company.

At MicHoldings, we define Diversity in the workplace as all the differences that define each of us as unique individuals.

These differences include:

• Culture
• Ethnicity
• Education
• Race
• Experience
• Nationality
• Beliefs
• Sexual Orientation
• Gender
• Age
• Religion
• Physical Abilities
• Opinions
• Marital/Family Status

These are just some of the distinctions that each of us bring to the workplace, contributing to our unique individuality.

Our vision is to build an inclusive environment that leverages diversity to create high-performing teams that generate measurable results. An inclusive environment encourages MicHoldings employees to:

• Maximize their professional and personal growth
• Recognize and respect the whole person
• Value the differences in employees' backgrounds, experience, knowledge, and skills
• Maximize the benefits derived from a diverse workforce