volkswagen india starts women empowerment initiative
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Volkswagen India starts Women Empowerment initiative;
Promotes diversity and inclusivity across all areas at Pune Plant
Mentoring initiative lays a strong foundation to grow number of women employees at
Volkswagen India up to 30% by 2025
Women Empowerment initiative involves a focused action plan with three interlocking
frameworks to develop women to step into leadership roles
Implementation of the additional development programme for women underlines the
various efforts already undertaken to nurture female talents in a sustainable manner
Pune, March 18th, 2015: Volkswagen India has launched an elaborate Women
Empowerment initiative aimed at rolling out best practices that promote gender diversity
and inclusivity across all departments. With a kick-off meet that took place on 11th of March
2015, more than 120 female employees working at Pune Plant in Chakan and Regional
Competence Centre (RCC) in Hinjewadi were informed about the key action plan of this
additional and skill development-oriented initiative especially designed for women.
Currently, women make up 12% of our total talent strength amongst our indirect employees at
Volkswagen India. Our target is to increase this percentage to 30% by 2025 across all
departments. Hence, this initiative is our effort towards creating a strong foundation based on
best practices in gender diversity and inclusivity to ultimately help us nurture and grow female
talent within the company, said Peter Raussendorf, Head of Human Resources and Admin at
Volkswagen India.
To further empower the women employees at Volkswagen Indias Pune Plant and at RCC in
Hinjewadi, the mentoring initiative will roll out three interlocking key frameworks Sakhi Group,
Kompass Programme and Mentor Programme focused mainly on developing already
existing potentials with excellent professional accomplishments and departmental performance.
Through Sakhi Group, all women will be able to exchange ideas about womens impact on the
global economy best practices, Volkswagen business, networking, discussions, build skills to help
women define their personal success and focus on career advancement.
In the Kompass Programme a selected batch of women, who are already settled in their
respective working area as well as have proven their skills in the daily job, will go through a
nine-month training. Kompass also includes a six month cross functional project to help, support
and accelerate the development of the high-potential female professionals.
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The Mentor Programme in the developing framework is aimed at mentoring and training
already existing high potential women leaders through a nine month project-driven programme
with formal and informal sharing of strategies and best practices.
Commenting on the structure and content of the initiative, Mr. Peter Raussendorf said, Given the
significant role women play in society and businesses the world over, we believe there is great
merit in offering a platform that can further nurture and develop this set of talent. Through our
programme, we aim to drive our existing female talent base forward and also create
opportunities for new recruits to develop and grow with the rest of the company in a conducive
and inclusive environment.
About Volkswagen Group India: With its headquarters in Pune, Maharashtra, the Volkswagen Group is
represented by five brands in India: Audi, Lamborghini, Porsche, KODA, and Volkswagen. The Volkswagen Group has been present in India for the last 13 years and began its India journey with the
entry of the KODA brand in 2001. The Audi brand and Volkswagen brand entered India in 2007, while Porsche brand and Lamborghini brand followed in 2012. Each brand has its own character and operates
as an independent entity in the market. Volkswagen Group India has over 25 models in India and 262
dealerships and is operating through two plants Pune and Aurangabad. The Pune plant has a manufacturing capacity of 130,000 cars per year (in current two-shift system) and is currently
manufacturing Volkswagen Polo and Vento and KODA Rapid. The Aurangabad plant caters to various premium and luxury models of Audi, KODA and Volkswagen sold in India and has an annual capacity of approximately 89,000. Volkswagen Group India is a part of Volkswagen AG, which is globally
represented by 12 brands - Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Ducati, Lamborghini, Porsche, Scania, SEAT, KODA, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles (Volkswagen Nutzfahrzeuge), MAN and Volkswagen Passenger Cars.
For more details, please contact:
Volkswagen Group India Communications
Contact: Hermann Prax / Adhish Alawani
Phone: +91-8554997356 / +91-7875557435
E-mail: [email protected] / [email protected]
6-Degrees PR
Contact: Naina Shetty / Suhaib Abeer
Phone: +91 9819703379/ +91 9867455550
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]