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KONE 2016 | SUSTAINABILITY REPORT
OUR PEOPLE
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At KONE, we foster a collaborative culture
where co-workers trust and respect each other.
We encourage colleagues, customers and
partners to innovate together to deliver the best
results. Our personnel strategy aims to ensure
the availability, engagement, motivation, and
continuous development of our employees. We
want KONE to be a great place to work – this is
one of our strategic targets.
For us, creating a great place to work means
treating every employee fairly and providing
a safe working environment. High ethical
principles guide all our activities. As an
employer, KONE is committed to an equal
opportunity approach that places people in
the positions that best suit their abilities. We
prohibit discrimination of any kind and do not
differentiate between job applicants based on
their gender, race, or other aspects of their
personal backgrounds.
We actively encourage diversity at KONE, and
our values guide us in nurturing an inclusive
culture. To strengthen our global approach and
deepen our insights on customers and markets,
we have set goals for cultural diversity in our
headquarter teams.
During the reporting year, KONE’s workforce
included 119 nationalities. The majority of our
employees are male, with men representing
88% of our people globally. Nevertheless,
women accounted for 16% of management
team members in 2016, and we continue our
efforts towards raising that proportion to our
goal of 20%.
Cultivating our people’s skills
A Winning Team of True Professionals was one
of KONE’s five development programs between
2014-2016. The program aimed to enable all
employees to perform at their best, to develop
field competencies, and to attract the best
talent to KONE.
In 2016, we continued to focus strongly on
competence development, with over 3,400
training programs and online modules in our
training offering. KONE has over 30 training
A GREAT PLACE
TO WORK
G4 INDICATORS RELATED TO THIS SECTION
G4-LA1: Total number and rates of new employee hires and employee
turnover by age group, gender and region
G4-LA6: Type of injury and rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost
days, and absenteeism, and total number of work-related fatalities, by
region and by gender
G4-LA10: Programs for skills management and lifelong learning
G4-LA11: Percentage of employees receiving regular performance and
career development reviews, by gender and by employee category
G4-LA12: Composition of governance bodies and breakdown of employees
per employee category according to gender and age group
BEING THE BEST EMPLOYER
AND ATTRACTING TALENT
We want KONE to be a great place to work, and we aim to inspire, engage,
and develop our employees to deliver great results. Our employees have
the right to a safe and healthy working environment where discrimination
is prohibited and personal well-being is promoted.
At KONE, we see diversity as a strength. We employed over 52,000 people
at the end of 2016, and most of our employees are on the field every day,
serving customers in more than 60 countries.