Diversity

Bonava aims to serve as an example when it comes to diversity, with the goal of ensuring access to a broad recruitment base and of our employees reflecting the population as a whole. This will make it simpler to carry out Bonava’s mission: to create better homes and lives for the many. It is crucial for Bonava’s ability to serve as an example that all our employees act based on our values. This includes acting with mutual respect. Internships and apprenticeships as well as various mentoring programmes are available in all of Bonava’s markets. In Germany, for example, we have a programme in place that supports the integration, development and training of young refugees with the aim of offering employment at Bonava. Employees in Sweden are invited to participate as mentors in the “Mitt Livs Chans” programme, a mentoring programme intended to be a bridge to the Swedish labour market for skilled immigrant labour. Through active skills development and internal recruitment for management positions, we set a good example and ensure that our entire pool of employees achieves its full potential so that Bonava’s organisation becomes as effective and as dynamic as possible. In 2020 and 2021 we earned a place on the Allbright Foundation’s Green List as one of the most equitable companies in Sweden.

Governance
Bonava endeavours to be a welcoming workplace characterised by diversity and a focus on collaboration. Our Code of Conduct emphasises that Bonava stands for equal opportunities regardless of gender, transgender identity or expression, ethnic origin, religion or other beliefs, disability, sexual orientation or age. The degree of our success in achieving this is monitored in the Passionate Workplace annual employee survey. We also conduct regular salary surveys to determine whether salaries are equal, and have a procedure for salary adjustment in addition to the normal annual salary review.

One of the most important things we do to create diversity is that we always make use of competence-based recruiting. This means that on the basis of job description, we identify which competences are required. These competences form the foundation of the entire procedure. The candidate with the highest level of the right competencies is the one offered employment. We also often make use of competence and skills tests to ensure an objective assessment.

Evaluation
The Passionate Workplace employee survey answer the question of whether all employees at Bonava perceive as having equal opportunities and obligations regardless of ­gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion or other outlooks on life, disability, sexual orientation or age. The earlier positive trend ­continues and Bonava’s results are better than the comparison index of the survey. We want to further boost our efforts on diversity and inclusion, and have begun by training our HR organi­sation to pursue these issues more actively.

GRI standard for sustainability reporting
Bonava reports annually for GRI indicator 405-1 Diversity on the Board of Directors and Executive Management Group, and among employees.