2017 Sustainability Overview | Prysmian Group

THE HUMAN ASSETT PRYSMIAN GROUP 2017 SUSTAINABILITY OVERVIEW the Prysmian Academy, in order to guarantee maximum support and involvement of the company population. All the initiatives are designed with the help of focus groups that involves employees of different levels and age. The initiatives started in 2017 that are continuing in 2018 include a workshop on Diversity and Unconscious Bias to build a mindset open to diversity and multiculturality, policies and basic rules to promote a respectful and productive environment for all, social events that allow the exchange of best practices inside and outside the company. The objective is to increase the number of women at different organisational levels by 2020 and to include as a fundamental characteristic of leadership and condition in the selection processes of the personnel of the target shares of female candidates. Prysmian has identified the promotion of diversity and equal opportunity as a strategic objective for the management of human resources and has begun implementing a global Diversity and Inclusion Policy wihle developing a number of supporting initiatives. In 2017 were started the first initiatives of the programme “Side By Side”, launched in 2016 with a view to promoting and supporting diversity within the Group. The initial scope was support for gender diversity and then extend to diversity of other kinds, such as age, culture etc. Side by Side is founded upon the recruitment and gender equality policies, quantitative objectives for female participation at each level of the business, internal and external communications campaigns and the development and provision of training and awareness within DIVERSITY AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY