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‘Developing Leaders at UPS’

UPS is the nation fourth largest enipi e with 357,000 employees worldwide and operations in more than 200 countries. UPS is consistently recognized as a “top companies to work for” and was recently recognized by Fortune as one of the 50 best companies for minorities. A major reason for UPS’s success is the company $ commitment to its employees. UPS understands the importance of providing both education and experience f or its ne t generation of leaders—spending $300 million dollar annually on education programs for employees and encouraging promo tion from within All employees are offered equal opportunities to build the skills and knowledge they need to succeed A per t example of thi is Jovita Carranza.

Jovita Carranza joined UPS m 1976 as a part time clerk in Los Angeles Carranza demonstrated a strong work ethic and a commitment to UPS and UPS rewarded her with opportunities—opportunities Carranza was not shy about taking advan tage of. By 1985 Carranza was the workforce planning manager in Metro LA. By 1987 he was district human resources manager based in Central Texas. By 1990 he h d accepted a move to district human resources manager in Illinois. She received her first operations assignment, as division manager for hub, package, and feeder operations, in Illinois in 1991. Two years later, he s id yes to becoming district op erations manager in Miami. In 1996 she accepted the same role in Wisconsin By 1999 Carranza’s progressive uccesses led UPS to promote her to president of the Americas Region. From there she moved into her current position as Vice Pre ident of UPS Air Operations, based in Louisville, Kentucky