Name of best practice
Takeda
Entity
(Type of entity implementing the initiative)
A pharmaceutical company
Purpose
Respecting the individual for who they are
Target
(youth LGBTI+, adult LGBTI+, schools, labour market)
Labour Market, Employees within the company
Kind of intervention
2. Individual-based interventions
Objectives
From the company: to give a positive appeal that works well for its image;
For the employees/clients: to give a sense of emotional security, sense of belonging, valued corporate culture and self- motivation
Description of the implementation
Case example: Takeda accompanied two transgender individuals through their gender confirmation process by allowing them to change their work area in the company due to their gender, and by knowingly employing one of them who was in the process of undergoing their change in civil status, and thereafter re-introducing them and re-integrating them with their confirmed identity in the company.
Resources needed to implementation
Employer and employee resources have been unspecified
Results of implementation
Expected results are an increase in motivation and engagement, furthering of talent pool, new business opportunities and clients, valued corporate culture, greater respect and genuine mutual interest
Facilitators
Improving unemployment rates of the trans population
Low cost of making changes for the reintegration of these people
Greater visibility of trans people
Barriers
Not accompanied by a policy of raising awareness with other colleagues
Ideological conflicts
Lack of available posts for the change of position, especially in small and medium-sized company
Reference website of Best Practice TAKEDA: www.takeda.com/corporate-responsibility/sustainable-value-report/people/diversity-equity–inclusion
Link to video about TAKEDA employee testimonials: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEJyVN0inOM