Sabancı Holding - Achievement in Human Resources
Company: Sabancı Holding, İstanbul, Turkey
Company Division/Group: Business Awards Consulting
Company Description: Sabancı Holding A.Ş, one of Turkey’s leading conglomerates, is the parent company and manages Sabancı Group’s companies with a strategic approach. Sabancı Group’s main business areas are banking, financial services, energy, industrials, building materials and retail. Sabancı Group companies are market leaders in most of their respective sectors.
Nomination Category: Achievement Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Achievement in Human Resources
Nomination Title: SABANCI Diversity and Inclusion
Sabancı Holding is a strategic portfolio company that focuses on creating value add with the Group’s ecosystem and prioritizes high-performance culture.Sabancı Group’s main business areas are banking, insurance, energy, industrials, cement, and retail.With over 90 years of experience, Sabancı Group operates companies that are industry leaders and rank among Turkey’s most reputable enterprises.
Sustainability Strategy and Gender Equality
Sabancı Group’s sustainability approach, embraced throughout the entire organization, helps it deliver long-term shared value for its stakeholders.In line with the main Sabancı of New Generation vision, the Group created aSustainability Roadmapin 2020.
In this Roadmap, "Gender Equity" is one of the focus areas to guide the sustainability transformation of Sabancı Group companies.
Sabancı is aware that women should have equal rights, opportunities and possibilities for sustainable economic growth and balanced social development. In Global Gender Gap Report of the World Economic Forum (WEF), Turkey ranks 136th in women’s participation in the labor force and equal opportunity and 130th in the gender gap indices. It is an important responsibility for business world in Turkey to change this bleak picture for achieving equality. Closing the gender gap is a requirement for a successful business environment and social development.
Sabancı signed theUnited Nations Women’s Empowerment Principles Declarationand became the first signatory from Turkey. Sabancı tries its best to promote gender equality awareness for all employees, increase women’s participation in labor force, support them throughout their careers, and become a pioneer and exemplary in this regard.
In order to close the gender gap at all Sabancı companies, Sabancı offers employees equal opportunities starting from recruitment process and actively take advantage of the potential brought by equality and diversity.
Sabancı lights the way and inspires Turkish economy running many strategic projects on gender equity and Women Empowerment by Sabancı Group Companies. Just 2 examples of inspiring women empowerment project are stated here, please see the attached file for other projects.
Business Against Domestic Violance (BADV) Project:
Sabancı Holding designs and supports the Business Against Domestic Violence (BADV) project which is carried out under the main sponsorship of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). It aims to identify methods to prevent domestic violence by using executive and organizational capabilities of the business world and establishes support mechanisms in workplaces in this regard, making the problem of violence against women more visible.
Gender Equality Training
Sabancı provides Gender Equity training to all 40,000employees, which are working especially on man-dominated industries.
The program includes online trainings to raise awareness on gender equality. Topics of online trainings included: “Concepts and Definitions,” “Education and Gender Equality,” “Business and Gender Equality,” “Violence Against Women” and “Forced and Early Marriage.”
Sabancı Group became one of the leading companies in gender equity and women empowerment in Turkey.
- Sabancı Group, in terms of theratio of female employees, is above Turkey's average, parallel to the equivalent companies in Europe. As of the end-2020, Sabancı Group has provided employment opportunity to more than60 thousand people.30% of employeesand38% of managersarewomen. This is an exemplary success for the country, especially considering that most of the Sabancı Group's fields of activity are in sectors with male workforce.
- Sabancı Group isabove the averageof not only Turkey but alsothe worldandEuropein terms of the ratio ofwomen executivesand ratio of women in the Board of Directors. (Sabancı %44, EU%28, Turkey )Four out of nineboard membersat Sabancı Group are women.
- In Capital magazine’s 2018Women Friendly CompaniesSurvey, Sabancı Group were awarded 1stin the category of Groups with the Highest Number of Women Executives and the runner-up prize in the category of Groups with the Highest Number of Women Employees.
- Teknosa isthe first technology retail companyin Turkey to participatesigning the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs),by UN Global Compact and UN Women, committing to 7 principles for creating company policies that will advance gender equality.
-Sabancı Group won the “Gender Equality Special Award” at TİSK Corporate Social Responsibility Awards which aims to raise awareness on corporate social responsibility and encourage companies to support important social issues.
Appendix 1: Gender Equity Results and Accomplishments
The results and accomplishments of gender equality practices and initiatives at an overall view is provided at this attachment file.
Appendix 2:Sabanci Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives
Because of word restrictions, gender equity initiatives of Sabancı Group and Sabancı Companies cannot be included in this document.
A separate file is attached detailing all projects and activities on gender equity and diversity
Appendix 3: Sabancı Sustainability Website: https://yatirimciiliskileri.sabanci.com/en/sustainability/default/Sustainability/124/481/0