Being on Top

Businesses magazine Expansión (mexican edition) has made public a list of the best companies to work in Mexico (March 23th), from the point of view of the applied policies to Human Resources, and based on an evaluation made for the Great Place to Work Institute.

This is the list of the companies (more than 500 employees) with better atmosphere and labor policies:

1 Danone
2 Federal Express
3 McDonald’s
4 British American Tobacco
5 Jansenn-Cilag México
6 American Express
7 Boehringer Ingelheim Promeco
8 Wyeth
9 Eli Lilly
10 Grupo Gamesa
11 Unilever
12 Procter & Gamble
13 Parque Xel-Ha
14 Monex Grupo Financiero
15 Dupont
16 Mancera Ernst & Young
17 Scotiabank Inverlat
18 IBM
19 Parque Ecoarquelógico Xcaret
20 Owens Corning
21 Servicios Afore Banamex
22 Desarrolladora Homex
23 Banamex (Citigroup)
24 Maxcom Telecomunicaciones
25 Novartis


I found interesting that 44% of companies of previous list also appears on another list less favorable: Some have been mentioned in the worst companies list by the Multinational Monitor and the Black Book on Brand Companies.

Multinational Monitor is an organism that "... tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, to worker health and safety, work union issues and the environment."

On the other hand, Black Book on Brand Companies is a work of investigation about corporative practices; it names the companies who are responsible for unscrupulous business practices and human rights violations.

I reproduce the list; in bold the companies named by Multinational Monitor (MM) or the Black Book (BB):

1 Danone (BB)
2 Federal Express
3 McDonald’s (BB)
4 British American Tobacco (MM)
5 Jansenn-Cilag México
6 American Express (BB)
7 Boehringer Ingelheim Promeco (BB)
8 Wyeth (MM)
9 Eli Lilly
10 Grupo Gamesa
11 Unilever (BB)
12 Procter & Gamble (MM)
13 Parque Xel-Ha
14 Monex Grupo Financiero
15 Dupont (BB)
16 Mancera Ernst & Young
17 Scotiabank Inverlat
18 IBM
19 Parque Ecoarquelógico Xcaret
20 Owens Corning
21 Servicios Afore Banamex
22 Desarrolladora Homex
23 Banamex (Citigroup) (MM)
24 Maxcom Telecomunicaciones
25 Novartis (BB)

If we focuse on Top Ten, 60% of the companies described with excellent labor policies are at the same time accused of environmental damage, dishonest polices and/or violation of human rights, among other things.

Being on top could be good or bad, or both at same time; that depends who is doing the list.