Diversity
Increasing the proportion of women in management positions
We have set ourselves the goal of raising the proportion of women in management positions over the next three years, because the significance of women as managers within the Group and as automobile buyers will increase in the years ahead. In order to reach this goal, each business unit has voluntarily defined its own target corridors for the planned annual increase in the proportion of women in management positions through 2009.
Various support activities are being conducted to help increase the proportion of women in management positions (8.7 percent in 2006). These include mentoring programs for women, appointments and human resource development measures, networking, practical support for dual-career couples, diversity training, recruitment and retention.
With regard to the women employees covered by collective bargaining agreements, all of the target corridors for 2005 that were set for the company in the “General Works Council Agreement on the Promotion of Women” of 2000 were achieved. An agreement has also been reached with the General Works Council regarding goals beyond the year 2005.
