In order to achieve its diversity objectives, Volkswagen Bank is pursuing a diversity strategy including amongst others the following activities:
Internal activities to enhance awareness, in order to highlight and to stress the advantages of diversity, to enable people to experience them and to counter any manifestations of disadvantage which may have existed in the past.
External activities to strengthen our image as a company which makes use of diversity as a strength and 'lives' openness as a principle.
Events
- Participation in the contents of the 'executive event' "Financial Forum"
- Contributions to the Management Dialogue
- Initiation of a Financial Circle on the subject of Diversity Management
- Workshop on "Gender Competence"
- Participation in the induction of new apprentices and trainees
- Training series 'self-assertion/self-presentation'
Networks
- offer a platform for a better understanding among fellow-employees, e.g. from different functional units or corporate divisions
- serve to enhance sensitivity for others and to facilitate exchanges of experience
- prepare creative proposals for change
The following employee networks currently exist:
- Women with leadership responsibility or management functions
- Secretaries
- QUEERdirect (Group of lesbian and gay employees)
- Internationally orientated groups
Mentoring
- is a human resources development measure to promote equality of opportunities
- assists and supports younger people by involving more experienced people
- is to be understood as process in which one person – the mentor – supports the personal and professional development of another person, the mentee
- develops the potentials of the mentees outside the superior/subordinate relationship
