Diversity & Inclusion
Schering-Plough offers a dynamic environment where colleagues from a rich mix of cultures, countries and perspectives collaborate every day to develop science-based medicines that help people live longer, healthier lives, and produce leading brands in various consumer and animal health categories.
Diversity is a way of life here - but it's also much more. We've made a corporate commitment to global diversity and inclusion as a business strategy. We believe the more we embrace diversity - in our colleagues, our customers, our suppliers and all of our stakeholders around the globe - the more we open the door to innovative thinking that will drive our success.
We believe diversity creates the most value when coupled with inclusion. Inclusion is the commitment to diversity translated into action. We strive every day to create an inclusive workplace in which diverse perspectives are respected and all opinions matter.
Diversity Colleague Demographics 2008 (US Only)
Diversity: A Way of Life at Schering-Plough
As a global company with a Vision based on earning the trust of stakeholders around the world, we're immersed in diversity every day.
We experience diversity in a variety of ways:
There is great diversity in race/ethnicity, gender, age, orientation, and ability among our people, who also bring a broad range of ideas, interests and experiences to their work.
We lend our diverse talents to cross-functional teams, working across the conference room table as well as across the globe.
Through our business partnerships and alliances, we experience differences in each company's culture and leadership.
Creating Value from Diversity
For Schering-Plough, innovation has become a primary differentiator and driver of performance. We believe that diversity fuels innovation.
Research shows that a multicultural work force offers a richer variety of approaches to work-related problems and processes. Ensuring that a diversity of opinions, experiences, cultures and perspectives are represented, and fostering an environment that allows them to flourish, creates the essential breeding ground for innovation.
As we focus our research efforts on developing innovative medicines, we are at the same time focused on finding ways to maximize the potential of our own diverse work force. By doing so, we're creating value from our diversity.
This philosophy - looking at diversity as an essential driver of our success - has led us to dedicate ourselves to the following vision and mission:
Diversity and inclusion vision - A new kind of health care company, best among its peers, that is global in structure and outlook, diverse and inclusive in its culture
Diversity and inclusion mission - To build leadership and organizational capacity and capability to create value out of our global dimensions of diversity and inclusion
Diversity and Inclusion in Action at Schering-Plough
Schering-Plough's commitment to diversity and inclusion is a visible, tangible one, embodied in the work of the Office of Global Diversity & Inclusion,theGlobal Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Council, Colleague Networks,andBusiness Unit Diversity Action Teams.
The Company's efforts have been recognized with numerous awards and top rankings from organizations and publications focused on diversity. Recent honors include the following:
Recognized by readers of Diversity/Careers in Engineering and Information Technology as a Best Diversity Company in 2008
Designated by the Human Rights Campaign in 2008 as one of the Best Places to Work for GLBT Equality, earning a perfect score on the Corporate Equality Index that rates treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees
Named to the list of 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers by Working Mother magazine each year from 2000- 2007.
Named as one of Hispanic Business Magazine’s Diversity Elite 2008
Work/Life Effectiveness
A critical part of our diversity and inclusion strategy is a commitment to making it easier for colleagues to better manage the competing demands of career and personal life. Many Schering-Plough programs are customized to the needs of the varied lifestyles, and personal, family and community responsibilities of our colleagues. The work/life benefits differ among our global locations based on local market practice, but generally include programs such as child/elder care assistance, domestic partner benefits, flexible work arrangements and educational opportunities.
