Guidelines, tools and management systems

Evonik’s Group-wide HR strategy takes account of external factors as well as the Group’s tasks and objectives. On the basis of the resulting new challenges, an enhanced HR strategy was adopted in December 2010.

The framework for the HR strategy comprises Evonik’s corporate strategy and values, our corporate culture, and our responsibility to society. This ensures that the overall interests of the company are closely aligned to HR management and CR strategy.

Four cornerstones will characterize the heart of the HR strategy in the future: Attract, Develop and Retain and, as an internal target, HR performance: in other words, professionalization of HR work. These four principles form the framework for the various fields of activity that will form the basis of our HR work in the coming years. Central aspects which we will be driving forward will be diversity, health and talent management.

The new HR strategy ensures that our HR work provides forward-looking responses to the challenges that come from growth, ongoing internationalization and demographic change.

The Group’s focus on specialty chemicals also places new requirements on the management of HR work. As a consequence, the HR management model is currently being revised so that we will be able to track and implement the targets set on the basis of a variety of established and new indicators.