Our ability to deliver high quality and innovative products and solutions for our customers is only achievable through the talent, expertise, and dedication of our global team of over 25,000 employees. Our approach to talent attraction and development is centered on our commitment to ensuring we are continuously attracting the most qualified talent and then nurturing and cultivating their skills and leadership capabilities to support their career growth and the global growth of our businesses.
Progress Towards Dover's Inclusion & Talent Goals
In 2021, we set goals to advance inclusion and talent at Dover Corporation: deploy a regular global employee engagement survey, establish an inclusion index baseline by 2022, and train 80% of leaders on inclusive leadership by 2023. By executing this goal, we hoped to improve employee listening, understand our employees’ sentiment, identify inclusion gaps, and support inclusiveness through leadership training.
This year, we report strong progress on our goals. We completed our first annual global employee engagement survey, which yielded a 77% participation rate. More than 50% of participating employees also shared comments on what they would like senior leadership to know regarding engagement and inclusion at Dover. The survey results revealed our employee engagement of 73% is two points above the manufacturing industry benchmark average, with responses related to satisfaction, advocacy, and pride questions in particular positively exceeding industry benchmarks. Employees noted that a strong belief in our future, a feeling of belonging, and a sense of purpose from their work drove high pride for them. Our employees also noted that Dover feels like an inclusive place where they are comfortable voicing their own thoughts and ideas – see our Diversity and Inclusion webpage for more information on our inclusion index and training.
Talent Attraction
Our talent strategy is led by Dover Corporate in coordination with operating company leadership and teams. We focus on attracting and recruiting skilled talent to meet the current and future needs of our global portfolio of businesses. We seek people who are proactive and dedicated and share our commitment to the pursuit of operational excellence. Our entrepreneurial culture attracts people that seek agency in their work and make thoughtful decisions that benefit our customers, leveraging our scale, tools, and expertise.
Employees who come to Dover have the opportunity to develop innovative solutions for our customers
around the world that help the clean energy transition, reduce waste, and enable the circular
economy—see our Innovation for Sustainable Products page for more information. This global reach
affords our employees opportunities to have an impact on critical global challenges and grow their skill
sets in innovation as well as product and solution delivery.
As part of our talent attraction strategy, we partner with universities to support internship programs
and pursue academic collaborations. Collaboration with students and interns complements the
expertise of our workforce and helps us identify early career talent. We aim to attract not just early
talent but also diverse talent. For more information on our work towards a more diverse and inclusive
workforce, please see our Diversity and Inclusion webpage.