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In the aftermath of the financial crisis, is there anything leaders can do to win back the consumers’ trust?
A Survey by HEIDRICK AND STRUGGLES of 400 corporate directors where, 65% of women directors said that greater diversity on the board would help rebuild trust.
Both men and women directors equally professed commitment to diversity as a priority, though only half felt the boards were doing much about it. In fact, the number of women on Fortune 500 company boards remains only around 15%.
As always, there is much discussion about finding qualified women to get on boards. Most boards require operating experience, which makes sense. Poets and advocates don’t have a lot of credibility.
But Gwin reports that boards increasingly want chief executive officers, not measly senior vice presidents and the like. On top of that, greater scrutiny and regulatory oversight — not to mention the occasional Congressional grilling — means that directors have to have enough bandwidth to bone up on the industry of the boards they’re on, and even show up at meetings. That shrinks the pool even further.
3 comments:
Place anyone on board I guess will merely help!
Problem is in society which is far more corrupt than it should be.
The meaning of The Company (The People) is moved to My Company now in corporate world.
If one can create a true society then we can imagine these issues going away automatically. In my opinion if you can change thought process you can make a difference... and best place to start that is Education (true Education rather our current society based Education)!
@Just A Thought- all salutes.. education is the only pillar.
@ JAT:- Still, I feel feminist approach will work.
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