JOY THROUGH DIVERSITY.

We focus strongly on promoting gender parity. Through a variety of activities and measures, we are working towards a balanced gender ratio across all levels of the hierarchy.

In this way, we ensure that our talents can develop even better at all levels. We offer a broad basis for equal opportunities, for example through Parental Coaching, Joint Leadership, Equal Pay and many other measures. Furthermore, we create the best conditions for networking and exchange with our internal women's networks and other internal collaborations.

We also work closely with external partners to further strengthen our commitment to gender diversity.

Due to an earlier entry into the company and a later exit, for example due to the increasing retirement age, the working life of our colleagues is growing.

Currently, four generations are working successfully together with us. We promote intergenerational cooperation - with the aim of creating a productive exchange between the generations and supporting our talents in such a way that they can optimally utilize their individual potential. Furthermore, our offerings in the field of occupational health management as well as our flexible working time models enable our colleagues to plan their life phases individually.

It is part of our self-image to provide an inclusive and barrier-free work environment for colleagues with physical or mental disabilities. We ensure that all our talents, with or without disabilities, feel equally comfortable and can shape creative processes from different perspectives. Because we know that these different viewpoints play an enormous part in enabling us all to achieve great things together day after day. We use, among other things, the possibilities of digitalization and Industry 4.0 to make work easier and better, especially for our colleagues with disabilities.

Outside our company, we also engage through cooperations with workshops for people with disabilities (WfbM) and, as a member of the Valuable 500, set a sign for inclusion and diversity.

We are proud to have colleagues from over 110 different nations in our teams and actively promote the exchange between the different cultures through training and other measures. The cultural diversity of our employees helps us on the one hand to understand the specific needs of our customers in a wide variety of markets and to align our products accordingly. On the other hand, it helps us to respond quickly and flexibly to changing requirements.

For us, diversity means living a culture that is based on appreciation and respect, so that people of all origins can contribute and develop with their personality and identity.

BMW Group PRIDE stands for exactly that. The network acts as the mouthpiece of the LGBTIQ+ community (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer) where diversity, equality, trust, respect and inclusion come first. Together, we ensure a positive, tolerant and open work environment in which everyone is welcome regardless of their sexual identity. 

We also send a clear signal to the outside world: in 2021, for instance, we joined the PROUT EMPLOYER network of the Prout at Work Foundation and signed the "UN Standards of Conduct for Business for Tackling Discrimination against LGBTI people".

Since 2011, we have also been involved with the Diversity Charter, a corporate initiative that promotes the recognition, appreciation and inclusion of diversity in the corporate culture. By signing the Charta, we have officially taken on the commitment to create a work environment that is free of prejudice.