Diversity Management

RWE is one of Europe’s five largest utility companies. We already generate some 40 per cent of our corporate turnover abroad and the trend is growing. 70,000 employees with their own distinctive personalities, individual strengths and skills work for the success of our business. We set great store by their diversity - age, gender, race, nationality, ethnic background, religion or ideology. After all it is the heterogeneity of our workforce that time and again helps us find the “energy to lead” - not only in Germany but internationally as well – implementing innovative ideas for the benefit of the Group. That’s how we see diversity management.

The answer: diversity

RWE Innogy is the renewables company within the RWE Group. With over 1,200 employees, we develop and build our plants where the wind is particularly strong and constant or where the sun shines most brightly – throughout Europe. Our activities therefore encompass over 17 countries; in seven we are represented by our own employees. Our workforce features over 30 different nationalities, all working together on the RWE Innogy business of renewables. Our matrix organisation, which is structured according to technologies, guarantees an international working atmosphere in diverse teams. We are living proof of what many studies have concluded: a high degree of team diversity promotes creativity and innovation as well as employee and customer satisfaction.

The task: development

RWE has signed up to the “Diversity Charter”. This represents a commitment to realising an open corporate culture based on inclusion and mutual respect. This means recognising and including different talents from within the workforce and the various fields of work with the aim of providing customers with optimum service. As a company with a high proportion of males in our engineering functions we are particularly keen to attract more women with technical qualifications to come and work for us. This is just one of the reasons we take the balance of work and family life so seriously.