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PEOPLE
A HIGHLY SKILLED WORKFORCE
Airbus Group's success is founded on its highly skilled and
engaged workforce. Ensuring that the workforce continues
to have the right set of competences for the future is a key
priority for the Group.
At the end of 2014, the Group employed 138,622 people
(2013: 138,404 restated), making it one of Europe’s largest
private sector employers. 5,211 people were recruited during
the year, while 4,478 left, in line with a low historical attrition rate
of approximately 2%. The overall Group headcount evolution
also reflects consolidation effects and perimeter changes.
Airbus Group encourages its employees to move jobs within
the company, within and across functions, sites, divisions
and countries to help employees develop new skills and
competences, while bringing new ideas and broader
perspectives to teams. Almost 10,000 employees changed
position in 2014 in line with the 10% target.
PREPARING THE FUTURE
The Group is committed to maintaining a strong talent pipe-
line, attracting skilled and motivated individuals from all
backgrounds. In 2014, it launched a University Partner Pro-
gramme to help students develop the skills that the Group
will need in future. Underlying the programme are agree-
ment charters with around 20 universities in more than
10countries worldwide.
Amidst fierce competition for key skills, especially in the en-
gineering field, the Group ranked among Europe’s most at-
tractive employers. The Group was viewed as a top employ-
er, according to the Trendence and Universum surveys of
European engineering graduates.
Airbus Group supports the development of its employees
and provided 2.9 million training hours in 2014. It has
launched a leadership university for its 17,000 leaders at all
levels. This will strengthen the Group’s approach to leader-
ship and harmonise the activities across its divisions and
subsidiaries, offering equivalent opportunities for all leaders
to drive their development anywhere in the Group.
BUILDING ENGAGEMENT
As part of the Group’s commitment to fostering an engaging
working environment, each employee across the Group
was invited at the end of 2014 to share his or her views on
the workplace. The results of the anonymous survey will
be used to help the Airbus Group become an even more
engaging working environment.
Having a diverse and inclusive workforce is known to bring
increased performance to the business. As part of a drive to
improve gender diversity within the industry, the Group is
committed to increasing the proportion of women recruited
each year to 25%. In 2014 women made up 19% of new
recruits and 17% of the active workforce.
BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION
The Group’s Human Resources organisation has played an
important role in supporting the transformation of the Airbus
Defence and Space Division created from three former busi-
ness entities, and of the Airbus Group Headquarters.
Through constructive dialogue with workers’ representatives,
the restructuring of the business is being achieved according
to plan.
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
IS A TOP PRIORITY FOR AIRBUS GROUP
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