Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) drives inspirational performance and innovation. M&G customers are all diverse, so having a team that reflects this diversity helps us better serve their needs and deliver results. Here’s an overview of how we foster D&I to become the best loved and most successful savings and investments business. This policy applies to all UK M&G plc employees and the ethos should be followed by anyone who works with us.
D&I is a strategic objective. At all levels of the business we recognise the benefits of having a diverse team that feels valued and listened to. It helps us think and act differently, adopt new ideas and better relate to the needs of our customers. An inclusive environment makes us more accessible and ensures we attract, engage, promote and retain the best talent. We embrace our differences and remove barriers to inclusivity to support you to become the most successful you.
We’ve a dedicated D&I team who are passionate about making M&G plc a place where every colleague feels able to bring their true self to work every day. This ethos is embedded into all our people processes and helps us deliver our heartbeat and code.
Being inclusive is a team effort. We hope you get involved with the many employee networks and communities that exist across the business to support our colleagues. Search on the intranet for more information about M&G plc’s employee networks, If you can’t find one that suits you, we’ll support you to create your own.
Raising awareness is a great way to ensure all our colleagues embrace and understand D&I. We’re proud of our learning offering in this area including regular digital training on unconscious bias and much more on the learning space around creating a fair and respectful workplace.
Measurement is important so we can assess how we’re doing and monitor progress against our D&I commitments. That’s why we ask you to provide us with your personal diversity data through Workday. We’ll always ask you how we’re doing in this area via our one voice survey and regularly review management information that highlights the mix of talent we have across the business.
We hope you make use of the support on offer to help us build a more modern and inclusive workplace. Supporting maternity returners back to the workplace, developing mental health first aiders, assisting employees going through a transition at work and increasing diversity within our trainee and apprentice initiatives are just some examples of what we do.
Most importantly, we’re transparent and base decisions on the merit of each individual. We don’t tolerate any form of discrimination or harassment. See our disciplinary policy for more details on how we deal with bullying, harassment and any form of unfair treatment of our colleagues.
