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CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY
EMPLOYEES
MANAGEMENT REPORT
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Company-supported health activities and fitness programs help
sensitize the workforce to issues such as exercise, nutrition and
mental well-being. Seminars and workshops are offered to
raise standards of personal health literacy.
A major component of our health management is the Audi
Check-up, introduced in July 2006 – an individualized program
for the workforce for the prevention and early detection of
health risks. By the end of 2013, the health centers at the
Company sites had conducted over 60,000 check-ups.
/ JOB AND FAMILY
AUDI AG wants to help its employees achieve a balance between
work and family life. As well as offering a large number of work-
time and workplace models, Audi offers working parents a wide
range of child care arrangements under the “Audi Spielraum”
program. In 2013, a total of 106 places were reserved for the
children of Company employees at Ingolstadt daycare centers.
In Neckarsulm, the number of places at partner establishments
was increased from 45 to a total of 60.
As part of the “Audi Summer Children” program, employees at
the Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm locations are able to take ad-
vantage of professional child care during summer vacation. In
partnership with the city of Ingolstadt’s “Local Alliance for the
Family,” Audi also offers child care arrangements in the other
school vacations. At the Neckarsulm site, child care was provided
for employees’ children for the first time during the fall term
break in 2013. Over 400 children and young people between
six and 14 years of age attended the vacation programs at
both locations in 2013. Flexible short-term care for employees’
children aged between three and 14 years at AUDI AG in Ingol-
stadt is the only such program in the automotive industry.
Parents are able to reserve a place up until 7 p.m. on the previ-
ous evening and benefit from particularly long opening hours.
Parents thus find this arrangement helpful when professional
appointments come up at short notice, especially at the start
or end of the working day, and on days when the regular day-
care centers are closed.
A total of 1,732 Audi employees took parental leave during the
year under review. 62 percent of those taking parental leave
were men. The average period of parental leave taken in the
past fiscal year was around ten months. Women took an aver-
age of 23 months, whereas men were on parental leave for two
months on average.
/ WOMEN AT AUDI
Attracting female employees to the Company and promoting
their careers is an important aspect of the corporate strategy.
As part of a voluntary commitment, the Company therefore
defined differentiated targets in 2011 in order to permanently
increase the proportion of women at all levels – from appren-
tices all the way up to top management. This approach enables
us to increase diversity at our Company and thus promote the
workforce’s creativity and innovative potential. When hiring
female academic graduates, we look at the proportion of women
studying each subject. Averaged across all courses of study that
are relevant for the Company, the target proportion of women
for new recruitments is around 30 percent. In subsequent years,
the proportion of qualified women that the Company seeks
to hire will result in a steadily growing proportion of women
managers at the various management levels.
Various measures have already been put in place to fuel interest
in technical matters among girls from an early age, and to recruit
and promote qualified women. AUDI AG targets advertising
specifically at talented women with its workplace discovery
days for young women, the Girls’ Day, the “Female Researchers”
or “Girls for Technology” camps as well as the CareerDay Women,
aimed at female graduates and professional engineers.
In addition, we have been supporting internal and external
women’s networks for many years. Specific programs are avail-
able to help talented female employees along their career path.
The Company is also building on and optimizing the basic frame-
work for balancing working and family life.
Proportion of women at AUDI AG
in % 2013 2012
Total proportion of women 14.1 13.9
Apprentices 25.2 23.7
of which industrial apprentices 22.1 20.7
of which clerical trainees 79.4 77.8
Management 8.0 7.3