Activities

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.


 

Internal activities

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

 

External activities

Prizes & awards

    • Germany’s best employers 2004 (highest ranked financial services provider)
    • Total-E-Quality award for 1999 and 2003
    • Competing for the Max Spohr Prize

 Campaigns

    • Silly Season Summer Festival (Braunschweig Christopher Street Day) since 2002
    • Participation in the Wolfsburg 'Action Day' to mark the European Year of People with Disabilities 2003
    • Girls’ & Boys’ Days 2002, 2003 and 2004: Opportunities for girls and boys to experience the world of work
    • The art event Alliance 8th March on the subject of women at work, spring of 2003

 Networking

    • “Deeds instead of words” – banking sector working group
    • DGFP experts’ group on “Diversity”
    • Network of Women’s Representatives of the Volkswagen plants