Evonik's New People Strategy

A key component of the corporate strategy

By focusing on specialty chemicals, Evonik is pursuing a clear growth strategy that relies not merely on financial resources but primarily on the Group’s employees to achieve market success.

One of the most important tasks will be how we develop and retain our employees. We also need to attract additional talented, highly qualified people to continue writing our growth story.
Built on six fields of action, the new people strategy creates the basis for HR at Evonik in the coming years. The people strategy therefore specifically promotes growth and values of the Evonik 2016 program.

Ensuring staff attraction

Thanks to Evonik’s positioning as an attractive employer in the relevant target groups and markets as well as to professional recruiting strategies and processes, we build the basis to compete successfully for the best people.

Promoting employee development

To grow businesses, you need talented people - especially to achieve the company’s growth, internationalization, and further diversity goals. Based on our existing measures for senior management level, we are progressively creating structures and processes to be able to fill key positions with qualified high potentials. Also we will grow the employability of our employees with modern methods.

Anchoring a healthy performance orientation

Committed, motivated employees are indispensible for a company’s long-term success. Evonik distinguishes itself by a healthy, balanced performance orientation focused on long-term success. This must be permanently anchored in the company.

Increasing employee retention

Values play a key role in how attached to their company employees feel. They create a long-term mindset and a sense of identification. They ensure a long-term focus and create a sense of identity with the company. Defining group-wide values, developing a common corporate culture, and putting this into practice in everyday work is an important task for the future.

Strengthening leadership

The element that connects the different fields of actions is exemplary leadership. Open, constructive feedback, targeted support, and systematic development of all employees are key tasks of managers at Evonik. HR management develops uniform processes and tools to support managers in their work.

Establishing HR excellence

Clear responsibilities and standardized processes as well as very high quality standards make HR the partner in business that creates value - professional and efficient.