Yesterday, on March 30, 2011 there was a high-level-meeting of politicians and labor directors of Germany’s DAX 30 companies . The goal of this meeting was to get a mandatory statement from the representatives of business how they want to ... read more
Tag: Frauen in Führungspositionen
WELT conference “Women in Top Management”
Diversity and the promotion of women have top priority at Henkel, and this is being confirmed again yesterday, March 22: Kasper Rorsted, Henkel CEO, and Kathrin Menges, Corporate Senior Vice President Global Human Resources, were at the “WELT Conference” in ... read more
Is it all just symbolic politics? / Alles symbolische Politik?
As compared to international standards German DAX companies only show a minor share of women in top positions. Thus, there were intensive public discussions if this low female quota could be judged as discrimination of women. There can be registered ... read more
A Call For More Women in the Boardroom [UK]
Current statistics show that women make up only 12.2% of directors of FTSE 100 companies, and only 7.3% of FTSE 250 companies. No wonder therefore that the UK government has decided to take action. In September 2010 Lord Davies of ... read more
You’ve got to want to/ Du sollst wollen
“You’ve got to want to!” That this request obviously rarely leads to the intended goal should be clear. In contrary: worst case it leads to the opposite: reactance. “You’ve got to want to!” could be definitely the interpretation of the ... read more
Being a Diversity Manager is like being a Doctor / Ein Diversity Manager ist wie ein Arzt
During my two weeks vacation on Christmas season I had to realize that being a Diversity Manager is like being a doctor. If a doctor enters the room all of a sudden the present people start to moan about this ... read more