Talent naar de Top

Het initiatief voor meer vrouwen naar de top

Charter

HR Best Practices

Combine work and care

Ahold

Introduction

Background

  • Diversity commitment part of Corporate Social Responsibility
  • A Global Diversity Task force was started in 2001 and brings peers from several operating units together to build action plans for addressing diversity issues
  • Ahold wants its employee base to reflect customer base

Currently

  • Diversity is a business imperative
  • Diversity of thought at all levels of organizational and business culture
  • Diversity is a driver in every discipline of Ahold’s business

Results

  • In 2001 less than 10% of the store managers were female
  • More than 50% of Ahold’s workforce is female
  • Currently, women represent 25% of the supervisory board members and 50% of the board of directors

Talent to the Top

TopBrainstorm was set up in May 2007 to stimulate government, corporate business and women themselves to introduce more female talent at the top. On the 30th of October 2007 TopBrainstorm presented, in the presence of the Prime Minister and other members of the government, a number of proposals to engage and nurture this female talent. The Charter Talent to the Top and supplementary plans should to the intended increase of the number of women in (the run-up to) top positions. Considering the sharp rise in the aging population, the shortage in the labor market, and especially the need for us to distinguish ourselves in the area of innovation, TopBrainstorm is convinced that the use of this talent is essential for the future of Netherlands Inc.