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2010 Citizenship Report
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Our Commitment Areas

Our People

Talent is the lifeblood of any organization, and GE views employees as its highest-priority resource. While GE’s people number nearly 300,000—with more than half located outside the United States— quality is always a more important measure than quantity. Maintaining the right environment for employees is essential to keeping this quality at the highest levels.

From internships to comprehensive benefits and compensation, GE takes a thorough approach to providing skills and value to employees. Innovative programs are in place to perpetuate a culture of health for GE’s people, while labor relations policies and employment practices ensure an environment grounded in fairness. The ability of employees to deliver candid feedback is an important component, as is a rigorous initiative to foster diversity.

In addition, GE continues to invest in leadership and development training. To attract, retain and bring out the best in its people, GE offers challenging, rewarding careers where employees are able to continuously learn — growing their personal and professional capabilities, as well as GE’s ability to excel.

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  • Joe Urli said:

    July 26, 2011

    “What Quality is to Product – Character is to Man or Woman”

    If our people and our talents are our lifeblood, then what further steps should we take to protect and grow out highest priority resource? The giant Sequoia tree has a natural fire retardant bark to protect itself, our people have a corporate bark consisting of policies, procedures and development programs to protect our organisation from a sometimes harsh environment. Working for GE in Australia has helped me appreciate some of the business integration and synergy challenges we face as a global entity. One of the observations I have made, is that in order to perpetuate a culture of health one has to listen carefully to what is being said whilst working in a very noisy environment. If we take a little more time to look beyond the metrics, pie-charts and numbers we can find the simplest solutions by talking to each other candidly (exposing reality) and building up each other through training thus strengthening the bark of one of the tallest trees in the corporate forest withstanding turbulent economic winds.

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  • frances oekerman said:

    August 24, 2011

    I received an email that said you are taking everything out of the USA and you didn’t pay a dime in income tax last year. Is this correct.

    Also that Obama is considering you for the next Czar job as leader to get m,ore jobs going. I’d like to know if this is true.

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    • GE Citizenship said:

      August 25, 2011

      Thank you Frances for your comment. GE did pay almost $2.7 billion in cash income taxes in 2010 on a consolidated basis (almost 19% of pretax income from continuing operations) globally, including significant U.S. federal income tax payments. GE also paid in excess of $1 billion in payroll, state and local sales and use and property taxes. For more facts on GE’s taxes, please read http://www.gereports.com/setting-the-record-straight-ge-and-taxes/ and http://www.gereports.com/more-on-ge-and-taxes/.

      There have been several stories in the media recently that have distorted the facts about the nature of GE’s business in overseas markets and especially the impact of that business on jobs here at home. The truth is that expanding into new markets, selling to more customers, and growing international market means more GE jobs in the U.S., now and in the future.

      With $17 billion in U.S. exports in 2010, GE is the nation’s second largest manufacturing exporter. GE makes the world’s most advanced energy, aviation, healthcare and transportation technology, at plants across the U.S., and sell these products all over the world. In the last ten years alone, GE has doubled its exports from the U.S., which has supported American jobs. In the last ten years, revenue from outside of the U.S. has grown from 35 percent of GE’s total in 2001 to a projected 60 percent in 2011, while more than 50% of the company’s industrial workforce remains in the U.S.

      For more on GE’s manufacturing expansion in the U.S., check out our “Jobs” section in GE Reports, and our map showing locations in the U.S. where GE has announced over 8,000 new jobs in the last 18 months.

       

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