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Improving lives in the countries and communities in which we operate is a long-standing P&G value. We are committed to making a difference in all of our communities — from India to Kenya, from Canada to Brazil, from France to Australia. Around the world, P&G and its employees strive to improve lives every day. This has led to a focus on building effective business and community partnerships in areas where we can make a meaningful difference: education, volunteerism to improve the quality of life in our communities and economic development.
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Education is a means of improving quality of life and a pathway to fulfill personal aspirations. P&G supports educational programs, from preschool through college, through financial contributions and mentoring/tutoring programs. The volunteer leadership of P&G employees, who can be counted on to help with virtually every significant community project, greatly enhances the effectiveness of our contributions. Through volunteerism, P&G provides ongoing support, sponsorship and leadership for many civic, cultural and nonprofit organizations across all geographies in which we operate.
P&G is committed to the economic development of minority- and women-owned businesses and suppliers. P&G has one of the oldest supplier diversity programs in the United States, spending more than $1.5 billion across nearly 2,000 minority- and women-owned suppliers. Additionally, P&G provides continuing leadership in the advertising industry by partnering with our agencies to refer applicants to each other and help minorities gain entry into commercial production companies.
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A.G. Lafley, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, holds himself accountable for leading diversity and monitoring progress in every part of our Company. He expects top leadership to hardwire diversity into their business strategies, establish clear expectations and demonstrate personal accountability. This requires top management to show strong, visible leadership, commitment and constant focus in order to achieve diverse leadership, work teams and robust systems for ongoing tracking for accountability of diversity progress.
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Top executives conduct in-depth diversity reviews annually with organization heads across the business units, to assess progress and reinforce leadership accountability for corrective actions. The top 40 officers in the Company have diversity results tied to their stock options awards, and strong diversity performance influences top ratings. Diversity action plans are developed in each region of the world to reflect the greatest opportunity for advancement of local diversity strategies.
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P&G strives to build a diverse and fully engaged organization by attracting the best talent from around the globe, leveraging the full talent of each individual through effective assignment and promotion planning processes, and executing with excellence the critical systems that affect and support retention of each employee. We focus on establishing long-term relationships with educational institutions that have diverse populations of highly qualified students. To broaden our candidate base worldwide, we utilize Recruitsoft, our fully global, Web-based candidate management system.
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We supplement our base recruiting efforts by utilizing intern programs such as INROADS, participating in recruiting conferences and reaching out to high school students. We execute special programs such as our Careers in Business Initiative and P&G Marketing & Finance Summer/Winter Camps to introduce students to P&G’s success competencies. Additional teams are available to help with efforts to recruit women around the globe and Hispanic, African-American, military and disabled candidates in the United States.
Our foundation systems for ensuring employee retention include effective first-year onboarding/join-up programs, providing a good match with the first manager, developing coaching/mentoring/advocacy relationships, high-quality challenging work/career plans, training (virtual, classroom and external), and supportive work/life policies and practices. Employee support groups and network teams exist throughout the organization and contribute strongly to effective recruiting, join-up and development efforts. These groups include women globally and Hispanic, African-American, Asian/Pacific-American, gay/bisexual/lesbian and disabled employees in the United States.
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P&G leaders are expected to build an inclusive work environment that welcomes and embraces diversity — an environment where people feel comfortable being who they are, regardless of their individual differences, talents or personal characteristics. This is an environment that provides everyone equal access to information, opportunities and involvement, so each person learns, grows, excels and maximizes his or her personal contribution.
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Training, policy and sensing systems are utilized to reinforce development of an inclusive culture. Focused diversity training/learning processes are utilized to equip leaders to value and nurture differences in experiences, styles of leadership and problem-solving/decision-making approaches. All employees have access to supportive and enabling policies and practices in the areas of flexible work arrangements, family care, resource/referral services and wellness management to improve work/life integration and personal productivity. Employee surveys and culture sensing, as well as the diverse leadership networks, provide advisory data and learnings to top leadership about how to be more effective at leveraging local customer/employee practices and perspectives.
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For many years, P&G has been recognized across the globe as one of the "best places to work" and for improving lives in the communities where we operate. This recognition is reflected in many publications, i.e., Fortune, Working Mother and Latina Style. (For more information about Awards and Recognition click here and scroll to pages 14 to 15.)
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Employee support groups and network teams throughout the organization contribute strongly to effective recruiting and development efforts. Our employees represent a rich mix of the world's population.
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