Never before has Nokia been as diverse of a community.

We strive to ensure our company culture acts as a world-class example of an inclusive working environment. Our goal is to enable men and women of different cultural or ethnic backgrounds, skills and abilities, lifestyles, generations and perspectives to contribute their best to our success. This has helped us to build the diverse and robust community that is Nokia today.

As the company has grown so have the dimensions of our work force. During 2006, our employee number grew to approximately 68,000 persons coming from 120 nationalities.

Within our workplace profile, women account for 34 percent of all employees, with 12.5 percent holding senior management positions. The average employee age is 35 years, with 5.1 percent of our employees over 50 years. Of the 120 different nationalities working at Nokia, 45 percent of them are represented in senior management as coming from a non-Finnish ethnicity.

How does our Code of Conduct link with diversity?

We are operating in more markets than ever before, which has impacted the cultural fabric of our workforce and ways of working. With a global reach, our actions have the potential to greatly impact economies throughout the world and we try to ensure that work methods correlate into ethical business practices. Nokia’s Code of Conduct is there to offer every one of us guidance on how to behave in business situations.

The strong message we want to send across every level and geographical area of our organization is: We take our responsibilities seriously, and we support each other in achieving our ethical goals through our Code of Conduct.

By the end of 2006, 81% of all employees had participated in our Code of Conduct awareness campaign.

The campaign was awarded first prize in the Federation of European Business Communicators Association's Grand Prix 2006 in the category of Business Strategy Communications.