We treat job applicants and employees in the same way, irrespective of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age, colour, race, nationality, religion or ethnic origin.
We recognise that a diverse workforce drives greater innovation and better business performance. This means we must encourage a wide range of skills and hire a cultural mix of people who bring different but complementary values, attitudes, talents and knowledge to the workplace.
We know this is a challenge. For example, it is difficult to increase quickly ethnicity and gender diversity in our traditionally white male-dominated sector in the UK.
Diversity is an integral part of everyday management in our Business Units. Senior managers are supported by diversity co-ordinators as well as an implementation team in each Business Unit. Our Corporate Diversity Steering Group, made up of senior diversity champions from across the business, reviews and monitors implementation.
We have used the Framework for Excellence in Equality and Diversity (FEED), an international benchmark developed by the Equality Foundation, to track our progress and identify areas for improvement in a number of our UK Business Units.
Our recruitment and human resources processes are designed to help ensure equality of opportunity. For example, in the US BAE Systems regularly attends and sponsors job fairs run by organisations such as the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). For more information on how we manage Diversity in the US.
We track data on gender for our businesses in Australia, the UK and US to monitor our progress.
