Bourbon

Diversity, a source of wealth

With 4,300 employees and over 40 nationalities that work together and share their differences on a daily basis in over 25 countries, BOURBON is inherently a multicultural group. From this starting point, BOURBON is now formalizing its practices to gain more from its diversity and exploit it as a source of wealth for the company and its employees.

Diversity has been an integral part of the culture and identity of our company since its origin and has become more established over the years through recruitments, training, management and promotion in local employment basins such as Nigeria, Angola, and the Philippines. This will be accentuated under the Horizon 2012 plan, which provides for the recruitment of nearly 5,000 employees in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America. To reach this new stage successfully, BOURBON has embarked on an action plan to facilitate the exchange of best practices, promote multicultural integration and improve the management of international careers and mobility, by responding as closely as possible to the diverse expectations of its employees.

In addition, specific actions will be undertaken to raise awareness, and inform and train BOURBON’s management in a multicultural approach.

In France, BOURBON is a signatory to the Corporate Diversity Charter which reflects its commitment to respect and promote the cultural, ethnic and social diversity of its employees in all areas of human resources management.

Diversity, a unifying factor

Bringing together the strands of diversity means promoting employees’ mutual understanding of issues from different approaches and enabling everyone to get the best out of their potential. It means amalgamating different visions, fuelling creativity by cross-fertilization, and boosting social cohesion and competitiveness. By valuing diversity as a key element in its sustainable development policy, BOURBON is meeting its social responsibility head-on and expressing its strong conviction that recognition of the multiple is a unifying factor and that diversity, if properly managed, is a source of wealth for the company.