Vodafone employs approximately 71,000 people around the world. Our challenge is to ensure every one of our people understands and subscribes to our corporate values to ensure consistent implementation of our CR strategy across the Company. Our internal communications and awareness is vital to achieve this goal.
We believe that CR issues are most effectively managed as part of our core business processes rather than as a separate 'add-on'. CR is therefore managed within the Group's mainstream management systems and responsibility is allocated to operational line managers wherever possible.
Our management of CR mirrors the way we manage our business. Vodafone is organised into two main units: Europe and EMAPA (Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia, Pacific and Affiliates) as a result of our expanding presence in emerging and developing markets. The reporting lines for CR reflect this regional division.
Local operating companies have a vital role in the successful implementation of our policies. CR management teams at each of our local operating companies are connected to the Group CR function through regular formal and informal communications, and reporting. See more on CR in local operating companies.
Our Group CR team is responsible for developing policies and global CR management. We also have issue taskforces at Group level to manage key issues.
