Talent Attraction, Retention, and Development
Attracting, retaining, and developing talent and leadership at all levels of the organization is critical to our competitiveness and long-term success. We seek to build an inclusive and diverse team to successfully guide our company through the competitive and dynamic environment in which we operate.
We work to accomplish this by supporting the well-being of our employees, fostering their professional development, and offering competitive pay and benefits. Our learning culture enables our employees to work to positively impact billions of lives on a day-to-day basis and make a lasting difference over the long term.
Attraction & Recruitment:
Kimberly-Clark’s recruitment strategy includes measures designed to help pools of candidates that reflect our diverse consumer base be considered for every role. We strive for a fair, inclusive, and bias-free recruitment process for applicants and employees. Our recruitment privacy notice explains how we handle applicants’ personal data and their rights under data protection law.
Read here for details on our recruitment privacy, equal opportunity, affirmative action, anti-discrimination, anti-retaliation, and anti-harassment policies.
Employee Benefits
Kimberly-Clark offers competitive pay and benefits to our employees and rewards excellence and performance. To promote a healthy work-life balance and support employees’ total well-being, we offer market compensation and benefits programs in all our geographies.
Benefits vary between countries and regions and often include comprehensive time off and leave policies that promote the health and well-being of our employees and their families. Depending on the country, Kimberly-Clark’s parental leave may augment other types of government mandated leaves such as maternity, paternity, and adoption. We believe that offering family-centric benefits allows parents time to be there for the early stages of their child’s development.
In 2023, to further enhance local activities supporting employee wellbeing, we launched a holistic global wellbeing framework to employees that includes physical, mental, financial and social wellbeing. We expanded employee assistance programs to more of our employees to provide support for key moments in their lives and ran over 70 open online education sessions for employees on a range of topics including healthy work-life balance and managing finances which approximately 3,000 employees attended. To prioritize and promote good mental health in the workplace and to mark World Mental Health Day, in October 2023 we held a series regional sessions highlighting the importance of mental health together with a global session where employees shared their stories to their peers help break taboos, with 2,000 employees attending.
Talent Development
Kimberly-Clark employees have the opportunity to advance their careers and develop their professional skills through networking groups, mentoring, and on-the-job learning opportunities. Teams often engage in collaborative projects across multiple areas of the company, and individuals can access cross-border postings and other special short-term assignments that broaden their perspectives and build professional excellence. We also offer a range of professional education opportunities to enhance our employees’ capabilities, with company reimbursement of educational expenses..
At Kimberly-Clark, employee resource groups (ERGs) offer networking opportunities for all employees. ERGs are open to all employees, and have a focus on African, Hispanic/Latino, and Asian ancestry as well as women, LGBTQ+, parents, caregivers, people with disabilities, military veterans, and new employees. In addition to amplifying our inclusion & diversity efforts, our ERGs promote career development by helping employees connect with and learn from one another.
Performance & Development Process
Our Performance and Development process reinforces our Purpose Led, Performance Driven culture, providing the tools and resources for employees to have robust performance and career conversations throughout the year. The process includes mechanisms for sharing feedback and promoting thoughtful evaluation that recognizes employees for their contributions. We encourage our leaders to engage in frequent open dialogue with employees.
Kimberly-Clark’s Performance and Development process is based on the following principles:
- Standard, global processes and practices across the business to drive consistency and fairness
- Alignment of specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound (SMART) personal performance objectives with business priorities and strategies focused on driving impact and results
- Development integrated into the process, with a focus on how project work builds capability
- A process that measures both results achieved and how those results are delivered in the context of relative contribution compared to others in similar roles
- Regular feedback and coaching throughout the year, with the opportunity to evaluate and revise personal performance objectives as needed to better maximize impact
- Differentiation of rewards based on performance, with superior rewards for those who have the most impact
Employee Engagement Survey
Through the employee engagement survey, “MyVOICE”, Kimberly-Clark seeks to regularly gather feedback on the employee experience. The optional survey gathers real-time responses from employees around the world to help us understand how they feel about working at Kimberly-Clark. Topics in the survey include, but are not limited to: leadership effectiveness, company culture, employee well-being, work-life balance, code of conduct, workplace support, inclusion & diversity indicators, product quality, and physical safety. The MyVOICE engagement survey is confidential and available to full-time and part-time employees in all regions of operation, twice a year, via an online, encrypted survey link from third-party and from a QR code on manufacturing facility posters.
After survey responses are analyzed and summarized, Kimberly-Clark equips team leaders with training sessions and resources to understand results and address opportunities. Executive Leadership reviews employee feedback, communicates results, and implements actions to help enhance the employee experience and drive company transformational efforts.
Published June 2024
