The supervisory board of the Deutsche Post AG appointed on Wednesday for the first time a woman to their management board. The organization was already one of the leaders concerning the topic of international diversity as four of the seven board members do not even have a German passport. But diversity is not only about internationality. Also the gender mix is an important success factor, which has to be taken into consideration. The top management is often still just men’s business. Although, already 37 percent of the Post employees worldwide are women, no woman has ever managed to get into the board before – until now.
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Kathrin Menges: one of the 100 most influential women in Germany / Kathrin Menges: eine der 100 einflussreichsten Aufsteigerinnen
Monday, July 26th, 2010 by Astrid Bosten
Recently, the Handelsblatt introduced the 100 most influential women in Germany. Among them are three Henkel-women! We already introduced our head of the shareholder’s committee Simone Bagel-Trah and Tina Müller, the Corporate Senior Vice President. Today we devote our daily post to our third Top 100 woman: Kathrin Menges, Corporate Senior Vice President Global Human Resources.
Since November 2005 she manages more than 50.000 Henkel employees worldwide. Kathrin Menges has the reputation of being a calm and fair manager. Her background is exceptional what makes it particularly interesting. She has a master’s degree in education and worked as a teacher before she stepped in the Human Resources sector. First she worked as Human Resources Manager at the Bankgesellschaft Berlin. Later she was responsible for the Human Resources Region North at KMPG. She joined Henkel in 1999. Before her nomination as Corporate Senior Vice President Global Human Resources she was Corporate Key Account Manager responsible for employees who work for the management board and the IT department.
All good things come in threes but in this case we would not be sad to make a role-modeled exception. [DE]
