COMMERZBANK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT

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127 71 Business and overall conditions
135 79 Earnings performance, assets and financial position
147 91 Segment performance
137 193 Our employees
143 199 Report on events after the reporting period
144 200 Outlook and opportunities report
Strengthening diversity, supporting staff
We promote the diversity of our staff, as this has a positive impact on our corporate success
and strengthens our corporate values. Applied diversity improves motivation, innovativeness
and the working environment. And it ensures that very different personalities are accepted in
a company, so that they can develop their full potential.
Our “Women in management positions” project, started in 2010, is intended to increase
the proportion of women in management so that Commerzbank has the most effective management
team possible reflecting the full range of talents. Women represent 50% of the
workforce in Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft (Germany), but in terms of management positions
they only account for between 9.3% of management level one and 28.8% of management
level four. We plan to increase the proportion of women in all management positions
throughout the Group from the current 24.2% to 30% by 2015. This target is supported by a
range of bank-wide measures, such as a mentoring programme in which around 600 men
and women are currently taking part.
The Board of Managing Directors, all managers of level one and more than 1,300 managers
of levels two to four have so far attended our diversity workshops, which have been
obligatory for all managers since 2011. “Career days” are another part of the project and
were held for the first time in the year under review. Around 500 women took part in these
segment-internal networking events aimed at promoting exchanges with experienced female
managers.
We opened our own after-school club in Frankfurt am Main in August 2011. Ten primary
school children of Commerzbank parents are currently attending the after-school club, where
they are looked after up until 7 p.m. This number may rise to up to 80 children in the coming
years. It is organised by Pme Familienservice, which already provides around 260 full-time
places throughout Germany for Commerzbank staff children in crèches, kindergartens and in
an after-school club. We have been recognised for our family-friendly initiatives for the
fourth time through the “career and family” certification granted by the not-for-profit Hertie
Foundation.
Since the beginning of 2011, all staff, who for whatever reasons are temporarily not at
work, can stay informed about a variety topics and current job offers through our diversity
portal on the Internet, which we started in 2010 for staff on maternity or paternity leave.
There are currently more than 3,600 staff registered on the portal.
In addition to diversity activities by our HR department, we actively include our staff in
the diversity process through networks. “Focus on fathers” addresses the topic of equal opportunity
from a man’s perspective. The “Courage” network is a women’s forum where female
staff can exchange experiences and foster their professional development. In addition
to locations around Germany, “Courage” has also been active in Western and Eastern
Europe, London, New York and Asia since 2011. The “Arco” network for gays and lesbians
continues to grow and now has close to 400 members, making it the largest corporate network
of its kind in Germany.
We publish information on our diversity events on the Intranet. All staff are invited to
keep themselves informed on various topics through workshops, talks and discussion forums,
and to exchange information and drive forward their own personal and professional
development. More than 50 events were held for this purpose during 2011. There was strong
demand for our Saturday workshops for female staff, which were held in Berlin, Düsseldorf,
Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Mannheim and Nuremberg.
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