Nestlé in society Creating Shared Value and meeting our commitments 2015

Nestlé in society:
Creating Shared Value
Nutrition, health
and wellness
Rural development
Water
Environmental
sustainability
Human rights
and compliance
Our
people
G4-EC6, Training and education G4-DMA, G4-LA9, G4-LA10
Average hours of training per year per employee
2015 31.6
2014 28.8
2013 23
Covers approximately 84% of all employees. Training hours are significantly higher due to
roll-out of Learning Management System across the Group.
Average hours of training by gender (2015)
Women 53.9
Men 59.2
Covers approximately 40% of all employees in the HR system.
We operate an international training and conference centre
(Rive-Reine) in Switzerland and, in 2015, it hosted training for
around 2695 employees. The percentage of female trainees
continues to rise, and now stands at almost 46% of
participants. Rive-Reine provides a place where Nestlé
employees from around the world can meet and interact,
sharing best practice from different cultures.
Our Leadership Through Safety® programmes are designed
for us, integrating Alletrust’s successful methodology. They
rely on cognitive science to drive behavioural change.
We have continued the roll-out of our IT-based Global
Learning Management System, iLearn@Nestlé, which is now
complete. It allows employees to manage their own
development and helps managers track the overall
development of their team.
Our commitment
Our objective
Provide training on Corporate Business
Principles, Nutrition and Environmental
Sustainability
By 2017 – Nestlé Corporate Business Principles are fully
embedded in all courses at our international training
centre and e-learning made available to all employees.
At the end of 2014, we successfully embedded Creating
Shared Value learning into all international training centre
courses. We are following the same process with the Nestlé
Corporate Business Principles. We have, therefore, introduced a
new objective to focus our efforts. Dedicated sessions on the
Nestlé Corporate Business Principles have been included in
many of our international courses in 2015, and will be fully
embedded in all international training centre courses by 2017.
The 10 Nestlé Corporate Business Principles are mandatory
statements for all Nestlé managers and employees and are
integrated in business planning, auditing and performance
reviews. They are associated with specific policies and
reference codes, where compliance procedures are outlined.
They are at the foundation of our company’s culture, which
has developed over the span of 150 years. We are committed
to making sure that our entire company is managed according
to them and require adherence to them from all our employees
around the world.
Training on the Nestlé Corporate Business Principles
provides our people with increased appreciation of the Nestlé
Business Model, allowing them to make better and more
aligned decisions and elevate the quality of support they can
provide to decision-makers. We want our leaders to become
role models in doing business the Nestlé way.
Our objectives
By 2015 – We aim to have all Nestlé employees
trained at least once on the Nutrition Quotient (NQ)
Foundation Module.
By 2016 – We will embed Nutrition Quotient (NQ)
training into the new employee orientation programme
at all of our work sites.
As a leading Nutrition, Health and Wellness company, we
provide engaging nutrition training based on the most up-todate
public health priorities. This Nutrition Quotient (NQ)
training is made available to all Nestlé employees, regardless
of their work site and working conditions. The programme
seeks to ensure our employees have a good understanding of
nutrition and it empowers them to use this knowledge in daily
life – at work and home. The training has progressive levels
covering subjects such as nutrients and food groups.
We have made great progress towards training all
employees on the NQ Foundation Module, with 94.4% trained
by the end of 2015, and we extended our commitment to
address all our joint ventures and employee turnover. We will
also embed NQ training into the new employee orientation
programme at all of our work sites by 2016.
Read more about our nutrition, health and
wellness activities.
Our objective
By 2016 – Environmental awareness training will be run
in all countries.
Percentage of countries where environmental
awareness training was run (%)
Goal by 2016: 100%
2015 74
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