Talent naar de Top

Het initiatief voor meer vrouwen naar de top

Charter

HR Best Practices

Combine work and care

Delta Lloyd

Introduction
Enablers
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Background

  • Back in 1998, Delta Lloyd had no female directors
  • Delta Lloyd was perceived as a ‘macho-organization’, dominated
    by competitive male managers
  • Recruitment advertisement encouraged this male company image

Currently

  • No formal diversity programme
  • Since 1998, diversity high on top management agenda
  • Diversity initially promoted by board members Niek Hoek and Chris Tesselhoff, who was also
  • involved in the HRM policy as a board member,
  • Since 2006, diversity policy is supposed to become a structural part of HRM policy

Results

  • In 2006, 16% of the directors were female, compared to 0% in 1998
  • Percentage of female employees up from 29% in 1998 to 44% in 2006
  • Currently, women represent 13% of the supervisory board members
  • There are no women on the board of directors


Enormous progress has been made in gender diversity at all levels Enormous progress has been made in gender diversity at all levels

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.