Personnel management at Continental AG is structured around ten international guidelines:

1. Optimum labor costs

At a global level, we are making a consistent, long-term contribution to optimize labor costs in order to increase competitiveness.  

2. Global growth

We are including human asset assessments in (de)investment decisions, and are proactively supporting joint ventures and M&As, as well as restructurings, greenfield start-ups and relocations.  

3. Fluid organization

We are making effective contributions in order to make corporate structures, processes and skills adaptable, fast and robust.  

4. Culture of high-performance

We promote and demand high performance through teamwork, excellent leadership and systematic and consistent performance management.

5. Preferred employer

We employ, integrate and promote highly motivated and capable employees and executives by creating an attractive, safe and healthy working environment, and by installing effective HR processes and instruments, without discrimination, and with doors open for diversity.  

6. Strategic skills management

We create learning and development processes so that the skills required to ensure that we are the technology and market leaders are secured and developed.  

7. Employability

We encourage and support the co-responsibility and individual responsibility of our employees, with the goal of securing their lifelong marketability and employability.  

8. A culture of trust

We promote and expect in return cooperation with all employees and employee representatives based on partnership and trust, in order to secure the long-term development of the Company, as well as a harmonious corporate atmosphere.  

9. Active public positioning

We take a public and active stance on our personnel policy positions, as well as the social framework conditions of our corporate activities, when our corporate goals support this.  

10. Efficient, high-value processes & services

Based on a trusting culture of communication and cooperation in our personnel management, we implement our business processes and activities taking into account the viewpoint of our partners, in a result-driven, cost-conscious and time-efficient manner.