sustainability report 2008 - People and culture

Our 2009 goals

We will work to ensure we have the right people in the right environment to deliver our vision.

• We will start to roll out our employer proposition in priority markets during 2009 and will track awareness and perception of British American Tobacco as an employer in those markets;
• We will aim to have succession pools at business unit level with at least one local successor ready in the short-term for each senior position and two local successors ready in the longer term. This goal is expressed as 1:1:2;
• We will aim to have a 70/30 ratio of local to expatriate senior management team members at business unit level, not as a ‘quota’ but because we place high value on local experience and diversity in our workplace;
• We will actively manage the career progress of our senior female managers;
• We will work with our employees to devise action plans for improvement in response to results from our global employee opinion survey;
• We have a long-term aspiration of zero accidents and have set a local target of zero for all Group companies. We aim to have a global Lost Workday Case Incident Rate in the region of 0.1–0.2;
• We will develop a plan by end 2009 to reduce vehicle-related injuries in our Trade Marketing and Distribution function;
• We will publish a paper summarizing our approach to human rights and how we manage human rights in our workplace and supply chain; and
• We will develop provisions incorporating human rights considerations for inclusion in our Standard Terms and Conditions for contracts with suppliers.