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In 2017, two senior women executives at Nike resigned due to workplace harassment issues. An internal survey found that many women employees had been victims of sexual harassment or discrimination. Over two months in 2018, 11 senior executives resigned or retired from Nike after the CEO received the survey results. The president of the Nike brand, expected to succeed the CEO, left with a $525,000 severance package and $9 million in stock options. In response, the CEO introduced changes to HR practices in May 2018.

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Nike Fact Sheet

In 2017, two senior women executives at Nike resigned due to workplace harassment issues. An internal survey found that many women employees had been victims of sexual harassment or discrimination. Over two months in 2018, 11 senior executives resigned or retired from Nike after the CEO received the survey results. The president of the Nike brand, expected to succeed the CEO, left with a $525,000 severance package and $9 million in stock options. In response, the CEO introduced changes to HR practices in May 2018.

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Nike Fact Sheet

In 2017, senior women executives at Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Patty Ross, vice-president of Workplace
Design, and Nikki Neuberger, vice-president of Global Brand Marketing—resigned due to workplace-related
harassment issues and informed Nike’s chief executive officer (CEO), Mark Parker, and other board members about
the issue.

In July 2017 a internal survey started by asking women employees if they had been victims of sexual harassment or
gender discrimination.

Over a period of two months in April and May 2018, 11 senior executives either resigned from Nike or announced
their retirement.3 Immediately after Parker received the survey results, he announced the retirement of Trevor
Edwards.

Edwards was the president of the Nike brand and was expected to succeed Parker as CEO beginning in August 2018

Edwards left Nike with a severance package of US$525,0005 and stock options worth $9 million.

May 2018, Parker had introduced several changes in Nike’s HR practices.

In October 2017, the #MeToo social media campaign against sexual harassment went viral when Hollywood
producer Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexual misconduct by more than 70 women.

Within 24 hours of its posting on Twitter Inc., a post by the actress Alyssa Milano was publicized in 85 countries,
with more than 1.7 million tweets and retweets.

Nike’s diversity statement read, “To serve every athlete individually and completely, across hundreds of
countries where we do business, we need teams that reflect the diversity of our consumers and a culture of
inclusivity that respects the communities in which we live and work.

According to Nike’s 2016 sustainability report, 52 per cent of the company’s workforce was non-
white. Black or African American employees made up 21 per cent of Nike’s staff in the United States,
and Hispanic or Latino workers constituted 18 per cent.

In 2015, he was awarded the Businessperson of the Year award by Fortune magazine for his
leadership qualities.

Only 11 per cent of the highest paying jobs in corporate America were held by women.

Nike had 29 per cent women executives in as its vice-president roles and 38 per cent of its board
positions, though only 22 per cent of the executive team was women.

By 2017, 83 per cent of Nike’s vice-presidents were white and only 16 per cent were non-white.

In a 2016–2017 study on the best corporate workplaces for millennial women, conducted by Mogul,
a woman- only technology platform, Nike was ranked the 10th best place for millennial women to
work.

Nike also co-sponsored the 2016 International Gay and Lesbian Football Association’s World
Championship in Portland, Oregon.

Several awards and anti-discriminatory policies, women at Nike faced issues with sexual harassment
and gender discrimination, and these complaints were being overlooked by HR.

One female employee, Francesca Krane, a retail brand designer at Nike for five years until 2016, said
that she was tired of watching men getting promoted over more qualified women. Krane said, “I
came to the realization that I, as a female, would not grow in that company.”
Some women executives were terminated, despite having positive performance reviews, because of
the complaints they had made to HR.

One employee, Marie Yates, stated, “I was looking for help and they just totally shut it down, like
‘you’re the problem.”

According to media reports, Edwards ran this insular group, and its members were known as “F.O.T,
i.e., Friends of Trevor.”

In 2014, a female employee of Nike, Paige Azevedo, met with Daniel Tawiah, the newly appointed
senior director of Nike’s digital brand in North America.

Issues related to Nike’s inappropriate workplace culture were noted in reviews on Glassdoor.

Many employees based in Oregon criticized Nike for its “frat-boy culture.” One employee stated that
Nike had a “boys’ club, with frat-boy type bad behaviour that is ignored by management.

In the “advice to management” section on Glassdoor, the employee said that several women were
frustrated with the boys’-club culture. She argued that managers should be trained to develop teams
and said they would often go to the gym for two hours a day and then claim that there was no time
for training.

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