Belonging and Inclusion

At Giesecke+Devrient, we understand diversity as the cooperation of individual personalities who are completely different and unique due to previous (professional and private) experiences, values, their environment and upbringing.

We foster a working environment characterized by trust, mutual exchange and constructive discussion. The aim is to create a culture of equal opportunities in which everyone feels valued, treated fairly, and included. We learn with and from each other because we are different, and in doing so, strengthen our sense of community as G+D employees.

As a globally operating company, tolerance and cosmopolitanism are elementary for us. For many years, we have actively committed to the “Diversity Charter” employer initiative and support the “Sustainable Development Goals” set by the UN Global Compact. In our global Belonging and Inclusion (B+I) Guiding Principles and the related Group-wide CB+I Policy, we clearly state our understanding, our ambition, our attitude, our commitment and our approach to this.

A sense of belonging is built on trust and security. This requires a working environment free of harassment and discrimination. Proper behavior and respectful interaction are essential to build mutual trust. With its global Red Flag Behavior Statement, G+D therefore expressly takes a stand against behavior that runs contrary to these principles.

G+D explicitly stands against discrimination and / or harassment of individuals based on certain characteristics, personality traits and life realities. We promote individuality in all its forms and create an equal opportunistic and inclusive work environment, free from prejudice, discrimination and harassment. No one may be discriminated against in the context of their employment – and this applies from the time of application for employment or apprenticeship and throughout all phases of the employment relationship. We strictly ensure that promotions, relocations, training and further education, granting of vacation, but also the termination of the employment take place free of discrimination.

Diversity is not only reflected in visible characteristics – for us, it particularly means diversity of minds. Heterogeneity in management and key positions is an important factor in this regard. That is why G+D has initially focused on gender aspects and set itself the goal of significantly increasing the proportion of women in management positions in the coming years. A clear signal has been sent by setting female ratios to be achieved.

In our ‚Group Wide Talent Program‘, we successfully achieved our target of equal gender representation.

A central element of our global B+I strategy is to create a diverse, equal, and inclusive culture at G+D together. Therefore, we have created a framework and established an international B+I Sounding Board.

In addition to comprehensive personnel policy measures, G+D focuses on regular global and local actions and initiatives to raise awareness among its staff and managers.

G+D provides a central information site with comprehensive information and links, where our employees can find out everything they need to know about the culture of belonging and inclusion at G+D at any time.

We regularly organize voluntary and mandatory trainings for staff and managers. This is how we ensure that all our employees are aware of the standards of conduct that apply and continue to educate themselves on topics related to creating a culture of belonging and inclusion and reflect on  their own behavior.

Our higHER network for fostering an inclusive environment that recognizes and values the valuable contributions of women in the workplace offers opportunities for participation not only to women, but to everyone in our organization.

The aim is to create a supportive network for everyone, broaden horizons, generate visibility and bring together different points of view, experiences, cultures and backgrounds.

The compatibility of work and individual life plans in the different phases of life is an essential element of G+D’s corporate culture.

With our forward-looking human resources policy, we address the work-life balance with needs-based solutions. We achieve this, among other things, with measures and offers such as:

• Parents&Kids program
• Back-Up emergency childcare
• G+D summer holiday camp
• Counselling and placement service for illness and care
• Counselling and placement service for childcare
• G+D social counselling

For our family- and life-phase-conscious human resources policy G+D received the audit berufundfamilie certificate in June 2024 for the seventh time – again with distinction.

INGenie is a German-language professional journal published annually on International Women's Day. The magazine focuses on the topic of women in leadership positions. Role models from various professional disciplines present career paths and provide insights into their day-to-day work in an environment that is still dominated by men. (The articles are only available in German.)