Excellent performance, the success that comes from it and participation in its rewards are at the heart of Volkswagen’s human resources strategy. Only a top team can produce the excellence that is necessary for Volkswagen to become number one in international automotive production. This human resource policy maxim applies worldwide and is of special significance in periods of growth such as the Volkswagen Group has been experiencing for several years.

As of December 31, 2011, the Volkswagen Group including the Chinese joint ventures employed 501,956 people. The number of employees has thus increased by 102,575 or 25.7% year-on-year. Significant factors in this increase, in addition to volume-related growth, were the consolidation of Porsche Holding Salzburg with 20,652 employees and MAN SE with 53,722 employees. The distribution between Group employees in Germany and those abroad shifted slightly in the past year: at the end of 2010, 45.4% of employees still worked in Germany, while on December 31, 2011, this was only 44.8%. To ensure that employees at all sites have the outstanding skills needed in an environment of rapid growth, Volkswagen places strong emphasis on becoming a teaching and learning organization.

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EMPLOYEE BREAKDOWN

 

 

 

 

as of December 31, 2011

 

2011

 

2010

 

2009

 

2008

 

2007

*

Excluding Scania and MAN (also excluding Audi Brussels in 2009); frequency of accidents = number of accidents at work x 1 million / number of hours worked.

Vocational trainees in the Group

 

15,021

 

10,545

 

9,846

 

9,884

 

9,302

Industrial

 

11,249

 

7,799

 

7,439

 

7,498

 

7,525

Commercial

 

3,772

 

2,746

 

2,407

 

2,386

 

1,777

Passive stage of early retirement

 

4,488

 

4,778

 

7,070

 

8,841

 

9,847

Group’s active employees

 

482,447

 

384,058

 

351,584

 

351,203

 

310,156

Total headcount

 

501,956

 

399,381

 

368,500

 

369,928

 

329,305

Europe

 

378,030

 

290,159

 

278,779

 

284,962

 

256,119

America

 

58,072

 

54,571

 

48,529

 

48,867

 

42,814

Africa

 

6,602

 

6,546

 

5,608

 

6,194

 

5,664

Asia

 

58,540

 

47,607

 

35,123

 

29,423

 

24,544

Australia

 

712

 

498

 

461

 

482

 

164

Percentage of female employees in the Group

 

14.7

 

14.2

 

14.2

 

14.0

 

13.7

Absences (in %)

 

3.4

 

3.3

 

2.5

 

3.0

 

3.0

Number of accidents at work*

 

1,806

 

1,855

 

1,865

 

1,819

 

1,684

Frequency of accidents*

 

3.2

 

3.6

 

4.0

 

4.0

 

4.2

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