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adidas Group
2011 Annual Report
GROUP MANAGEMENT REPORT – OUR GROUP
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2011
02.7 Employees
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Creating an attractive work environment
We aim to harmonise the commercial interests of the adidas Group
with the private and family needs of our employees. Our Work-Life
Integration Programme includes family-oriented services, flexible
work time and place, people development and leadership competence
related to work-life integration.
Diverse workforce to achieve global goals: As a global company,
we understand that it takes people with different ideas, strengths,
interests and cultural backgrounds to ensure we achieve our goals. A
high degree of diversity is already represented within our workforce.
At our Group’s global headquarters, for example, we have employees
from more than 60 nations. We act to assure an environment that
embraces diversity through various initiatives, such as networking
events, intercultural training and the activities of our work-life
integration department.
Increasing proportion of women in management positions: The
adidas Group has set specific goals which are in line with our
corporate culture as well as our employee structure. We plan to
increase the proportion of women in management to between 32%
and 35% by 2015 (currently: 27% worldwide) TABLE 03 . To reach this
goal, we are increasing the proportion of women in our leadership
development programmes to 35% in order to support our female
employees to take leadership positions in all areas of the company. At
the beginning of the year, the Supervisory Board of adidas AG already
committed to increase the degree of female representation to at least
three female members at the next election in 2014, with at least one to
be on the shareholders’ side SEE SUPERVISORY BOARD REPORT, P. 40 . In addition,
the adidas Group is focusing on programmes which give employees
with children the option to combine their careers with family life,
regardless of gender. For example, since 2002, more than 70 children
have been able to attend a child-care facility at our company premises
in Canton, USA, and a day-care centre for 100 children is scheduled to
open in 2013 at the Group’s global headquarters in Herzogenaurach,
Germany.
03 Key employee statistics
2011
Total number of employees 46,824
Total employees (in %)
Male 50%
Female 50%
Management positions (in %)
Male 73%
Female 27%
Average age of employees (in years) 1) 30
Average length of service (in years) 3.5
Annual training hours by employee (in hours) 17.0
1) At year-end.
Diverse sports activities for employees: In addition, we offer our
employees a wide range of sports activities at our major sites, in
which partly also their partners and family members can participate.
Employees in Herzogenaurach, Portland, Canton and at other subsid-
iaries have access to a company gym and numerous other sports
facilities. Our Company Sports department in Herzogenaurach also
organises various team and individual sports activities such as Nordic
walking, mountain biking, kayaking, yoga or ski tours. Special events
such as a one-week sports camp for employees’ children, trans-alpine
mountain bike tours and the annual Berlin Marathon weekend (with
a suitable training programme prior to the event) are also available.
Even current trends such as CrossFit, zumba and sling training as
well as special workshops like photography courses and nutrition
seminars are included in the programme. In 2011, the Company
Sports department in Germany offered 226 courses and 34 events,
which were attended by more than 3,900 participants (2010: >3,600).