EMPLOYEES
ATTRACTING AND NURTURING TOP TALENT
SAP strives to employ the best people in the best working environment in the software industry. Our people, rich diversity, and cultural wealth are some of SAP’s greatest assets. Our employees work in a flexible, open environment that encourages entrepreneurial thinking and career development in a global community of employees, customers, and partners
The Power of Global Diversity
We continue to leverage the global diversity that is both a cornerstone of SAP’s management style and a unique, differentiating factor of SAP’s employee base. Our HR programs, structure, and people empower individuals and teams in every region of the world to develop and deliver quality solutions for companies of all sizes and ultimately lead to the successful achievement of SAP’s strategic goals. The international make-up of a company’s employees is the most crucial indicator of a true global player, and we continue to expand in key new geographic markets. It ensures proximity to customers and the ability to leverage creativity and innovation around the world. With more than 43,800 employees representing more than 120 nationalities, SAP believes that people from diverse backgrounds provide us with not only valuable knowledge for understanding complex international markets, but also with creativity and innovation. To gain these benefits, we provide intercultural training, educating employees and fostering honest and open dialogue about both the challenges and opportunities of global diversity. Additionally, SAP employs a Global Mobility Policy that encourages international engagements, leading to approximately 700 international transfers and assignments annually.
At SAP, we nurture and support an environment that values differences in culture, race, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, and physical or mental ability. But diversity at SAP does not stop there; we understand the importance of world views, family status, personal relationships, work content, and other dimensions of difference that make up our employees, managers, business partners, and customers worldwide. Diversity is a commitment to accepting and supporting all people, regardless of their individual dimensions. Diversity, however, is not a value in itself. Managing diversity – in alignment with company values and goals – makes SAP prepared to meet the needs of our workforce and, in turn, our diverse customer base.
