Continuing its growth and globalisation strategy, the Société Générale group gathers nearly 151,000 employees, working in 82 countries. In an ever-more diversified environment, and a broadened spectrum of activities, business lines, cultures and profiles, Human Resource management supports the Group’s policy lines:
- Accompany its development and the diversification of its business-lines,
- Reinforce the Group's appeal, in order to attract new talents and retain current employees,
- Assess and valorise the diversity and dynamism of employees,
- Promote responsibility and performance,
- Continue to put the stress on personnel management and development, by favouring accompaniment actions and integrating the international aspect,
- Favour cohesion via the sharing of common values.
Diversity is a source of dynamism that favours the spirit of innovation and creativity that is essential within the highly competitive fields Société Générale evolves in. A key element in the Group’s development, it is evidenced in the way Société Générale recognizes and promotes all talented people, regardless of their native country, their sex, their culture and their profile.
A daily reality, source of competitiveness and innovation …
- 151,000 employees in 82 countries,
- 119 nationalities represented within the Group, 60 % of which work outside of France,
- 57 % of women,
- Over 1,700 handicapped employees integrated in the firm,
... and a strong sense of commitment
The Group is involved in a series of tangible actions to favour the development of its diversity:
- Signing of a Diversity Charter in 2004,
- Creating of a Diversity Council in 2005 (gathering 5 women and 8 men, 10 nationalities, 10 countries represented, from all the branches in the Group),
- In June 2005, within Société Générale and Société Générale Asset Management, signing of an agreement on professional equality between men and women,
- In 2007, signing of an agreement for welcoming and integrating disabled employees,
- In the 2006 agreement on professional training, integration of specific dispositions in favour of unqualified people and/or people in precarious situations,
- Pursuing the diversification of its recruitments,
- In October 2006, creation of an internal foundation for solidarity and professional insertion.
Société Générale received the Professional Equity label, in early 2007.
