Every company is talking about diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) today, and that’s a good thing. It’s a dialogue we’ve been engaged in for a long time, going back to our founding more than 135 years ago, when eight of our first 14 employees were women. And now, as then, it isn’t idle chatter.
Take our ongoing efforts to increase diversity at the management level, for example, where we’re on track to hit two key goals for 2025:
- Ensuring that half of all management positions at Johnson & Johnson globally are held by women
- Achieving 6.8% representation of Black and African American employees in management positions in the U.S.
At the end of the day, we believe that our diverse workforce and culture of belonging are what allow us to accelerate innovation and solve the world’s most complex healthcare challenges. We also know that our ability to deliver meaningful solutions ultimately depends on how well we understand and meet the diverse needs of the communities we serve.
So we treat DEI as a business imperative at Johnson & Johnson—and we’re taking action accordingly, whether that means being one of the first organizations to proactively submit a diversity plan to the FDA for an oncology trial or making direct investments in community health workers.
Plus, we’re advancing DEI in areas that may be especially relevant to prospective candidates, such as:
- Hiring for key roles across the board
- Enhancing our recruiting practices to strengthen relationships and deepen engagement with candidates from underrepresented backgrounds
- Incorporating diversity into the annual performance plans by which all of our people leaders are evaluated (100% of these 26,000 leaders have also committed to taking at least one DEI action annually)
- Training managers on how to role-model inclusive behaviors to their teams (additionally, 95% of all employees have now participated in unconscious bias training)
- Leveraging the power of partnerships to offer scholarships, mentorship and guidance to underrepresented medical students at historically Black colleges or university schools of pharmacy
In the interim, we’ll continue to examine all of the areas where we operate—and all of the ways that we touch people’s lives—with the aspirations of making headway on DEI. While this is an aspiration firmly rooted in Our Credo, it also ladders up to a more all-encompassing objective for everyone on our team: namely, bringing about a healthier, more equitable world for all.
The only question is: Are you ready to join us on the front lines of those efforts right now?
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