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Specialty Lists: The Top 5 Global Diversity Companies
Industry: Consumer Products
Main Competitors: Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Unilever
U.S. Headquarters: Cincinnati, Ohio
Number of U.S. Employees: 38,000
Annual Revenue: $76 billion
% of Operations Outside U.S.: 58 |
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Why It's No. 5: A longtime national diversity leader, Procter & Gamble (P&G) has strong multicultural marketing, thorough diversity metrics and is a global leader in upholding its core values and its commitment to equality for everyone.
Diversity Strengths: Chairman, President and CEO Alan G. (A.G.) Lafley demonstrates a strong commitment to diversity, including chairing the diversity council and meeting regularly with employee-resource groups. He is on the board of directors of the United Negro College Fund.
The company has a strong mentoring program with training and follow-up, with 56 percent of all managers participating. The results of this mentoring program are proven by its unbiased retention rates for the work force and management. Unbiased retention means employees are retained at statistically equal rates, regardless of race/ethnicity and gender.
P&G is one of our first Top 5 Global Diversity Companies because of its absolute commitment to its values worldwide. The company refuses to do business in companies that don't adhere to the same human-rights values as it does and has worked to change laws in these countries. All P&G employees worldwide receive a Worldwide Business Conduct Manual that flows from the Company Purpose, Values, & Principles. All employees must review the manual annually via company intranet or hard copy and sign that they have reviewed. This is tracked to ensure all employees have complied.
Chairman, President and CEO Alan G. Lafley: "We simply cannot create brands and products to improve the lives of the world's consumers unless we understand and value the diversity of those we serve and with whom we work. There are more than 6 billion people on the planet. We serve about 3.5 billion of them today with P&G brands and products. The people we serve, and those we have yet to serve, are unique individuals. The better we understand them, the better equipped we'll be to create products and brands that meet their needs."
Chief Diversity Officer Maxine Brown-Davis: "Diversity is a key factor in our ability to be an agile organization. Diverse organizations are more in-touch organizations. They're far more capable of understanding consumers from all walks of life. They're far more capable of understanding, appreciating and leveraging their own diversity. They're more capable of tapping the diversity of outside partners. As a consumer-products company serving diverse populations around the world, consumer understanding at its deepest level is coming face-to-face with diversity."
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Alan G. (A.G.) Lafley
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