While I can applaud the principles espoused by the brand, I also challenge John Donahoe to look deeper, that is if he actually cared about equity. In the recent impact report, he crows about equity in the workplace, and supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. He forgot to mention women, people of Asian descent, older employees and just about every other group on the margins behind the berm. Women in general are the least represented in senior leadership. Aside from the token dismissals of senior male leaders at the beginning of the MeToo movement, he followed by laying off about 20% of the most senior, successful female leaders in the company. And I would wager that the vast majority of those laid off leaders are over the age of 45. Nike has a long, long way to go in the lane of meaningful equity in the workplace; especially for women. The last time there was a senior global leadership summit on campus, one of the gatherings of over 200 people showed that among each table of ten people, only two were women. To a table. I wouldn't call a 20% representation of women leaders in a Fortune 500 company "equitable." I'd call that s-xist, irresponsible and just plain wrong. So Mr. Donahoe, a celebrated "numbers guy by the digit," you can do much, much better. Just admit it and get on with that.
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I particularly loved the statement the progress will be when there is a career path for women in supply chain. Just the audacity to both be ok that there isn’t one now, and, well, we’re only going to fix it for one group...
Or even how we are going to continue to focus on moving women consumers forward, but not one word about how we intend to rebuild trust by employees or make women successful inside Nike holistically.so many careful words to “sound” engaged without putting any real substance behind it.
Well said everyone!! Couldn’t agree more!!
@1aeo, agreed. My boss and I are actually the same f—ing band. My boss hardly knows how to do a f—ing thing except spend 2 hours debating a PowerPoint slide and kissing everyone's a– so my boss is liked or look busy. YET, my boss makes more than me. WTF!
Pay equity at Nike is a joke.
With JD at the helm, we, the workers, are f—ed.
JD is a puppet in a show where he only cares about his multi million dollar pay check and bonus. He couldn’t be more fake if he tried. He can’t even fill :30 minutes of an hour all hands meeting with company talk where he bears the dead of horse by being “transparent” it’s embarrassing.
The April 2017 pay “equity” email. Where we were told that employees at Nike are paid the same “essentially”. Then HR spent $$$ millions to correct the inequities they found in 10% of the workforce.
The 2025 representation targets are a joke. How about if they report on turnover numbers? So many decisions are based off making the numbers look good to cover poor leadership behaviors. Until Nike isn’t able to attract new employees to cover the losses, nothing will change.
Nike's goal: 50% representation of women in global corporate workforce, and 45% in leadership positions by 2025.
45%
Forty five percent
It's 2021. Why would you not have raised the target 5% to 50% when 50-50 IS equality. EQUALITY SHOULD BE THE TARGET.
Kind of like in April 2017 when Nike had the audacity to email that women @ Nike get 99.6 cents per $1 earned by men. So - what you're telling me is that we are NOT equal. Last time I checked $0.99 couldn't buy me a $1 soda from a vending machine.