"Inspiring Our World" Engages MGM Resorts' Employees In Culture,
Diversity And Corporate Social Responsibility
LAS VEGAS, Dec. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MGM
Resorts International has taken an innovative approach to team
building for its 62,000 employees. Working together to build a
better workplace, a better community and a better world, "Inspiring
Our World" – an empowering Vegas-style production created for
employees, by employees – was performed this week with the goal of
advancing the company's vision and commitment to diversity and
corporate social responsibility.
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Through original music and choreography, world-class theatrics
and captivating storytelling, 70 employees shared their talents
before thousands of peers, uniting 50,000 southern Nevada team members from MGM Resorts' family
of properties on stage and in the audience.
The Inspiring Our World production served as a platform to
deepen the company's corporate culture and motivate employees to
excel in guest service while making positive contributions to the
communities they call home, embracing diversity and being
exceptional environmental stewards.
Jim Murren, Chairman & CEO of
MGM Resorts International, said the program serves to celebrate the
company's successes as an international hospitality and
entertainment leader.
"Our passion for diversity and inclusion, community engagement
and the environment unites, unifies and empowers our employees to
create a positive, long-lasting impact in the communities in which
we operate," Murren said.
The production underscores a larger mission for MGM Resorts more
than a decade in the making, from diversity and philanthropy to
community engagement and sustainability:
Diversity & Inclusion
- MGM Resorts was the first company in the gaming and hospitality
industries to voluntarily adopt a formal diversity and inclusion
policy and with the program has graduated more than 50,000
Diversity Champions.
- MGM Resorts has been recognized among the Top 25 Noteworthy
Companies for Diversity by DiversityInc Magazine; 40 Best Companies
for Diversity by Black Enterprise Magazine; Best Companies for
Latina Employees by Latina Style Magazine; Best Places to Work for
LGBT Equality by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
- MGM Resorts has increased and maintained the overall
representation of women (more than 40 percent) and minorities (more
than 30 percent) in the diversity profile of its management team
for the past five years.
- Since 2001, MGM Resorts has spent a cumulative total of nearly
$3 billion with MWDBE suppliers and
contractors (minority-owned, women-owned and disadvantaged business
enterprises); and businesses owned by veterans, persons with
disabilities or LGBT persons.
Philanthropy & Community Engagement
- Since 2002, the employee-driven MGM Resorts Foundation has
donated almost $50 million to
nonprofit organizations.
- To date in 2012, MGM Resorts' employees logged more than 95,000
volunteer hours and have helped more than 820 nonprofit agencies
meet community needs.
- In 2011, 97 employee-funded MGM Resorts Foundation grants
provided educational support to 119,048 children; food, housing and
self-sufficiency assistance to 150,881 individuals and families;
and vital assistance including medical care and mental health
counseling to 24,498 individuals and families.
- MGM Resorts' donation in 2012 of more than 378,000 pounds of
canned food to Three Square, the leading Las Vegas food bank, earned the distinction of
the largest single company donation in the nonprofit's history for
the third year running.
Sustainability
- MGM Resorts' Green Advantage, the company's comprehensive
sustainability program, uses environmentally responsible practices
to effectively lower its carbon footprint throughout all business
operations.
- Over the past five years, MGM Resorts has achieved a total
savings of more than 300 million kilowatt hours of electricity,
500,000 MMBtu of natural gas and 1.9 billion gallons of water; and
increased its recycling rate by more than 420 percent.
- MGM Resorts' properties have achieved six LEED® Gold
certifications and 12 Green Key Global Eco-Ratings; at more than 18
million square feet, CityCenter is the largest LEED Gold certified
development in the world.
- The company has been recognized with the Business Leadership
Recycling Award by American Forest and Paper Association; LEED
Advocacy Award by USGBC Nevada Chapter; Best Sustainable Design
(Crystals) by the International Council of Shopping Centers; and
Gold Achievement WasteWise by Environmental Protection Agency Food
Recovery.
For more information about the company's social responsibility
programs, please see the 2012 Annual CSR Report.
About MGM Resorts International
MGM Resorts
International (NYSE:MGM) is one of the world's leading global
hospitality companies operating a peerless portfolio of destination
resort brands, including Bellagio, MGM Grand, Mandalay Bay and The
Mirage. For more information about MGM Resorts International, visit
the Company's website at www.mgmresorts.com.
SOURCE MGM Resorts International