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Tag: Diversity
The Challenge of Globalization – Comparing Korean and Japanese Global Human Resource Management (Podcast)
DIJ Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien
This it to those who were not able to attend the lecture that was recently held last Thursday 18th February 2016 by Martin Hemmert and Hitoshi Yamanishi
”Japan and South Korea are home to numerous multinational firms, particularly in highly globalized manufacturing industries such as automobiles and electronics. Both countries also have distinct business cultures and management systems which arguably lend strong competitiveness to their leading multinationals. However, the business activities of Japanese and Korean firms are increasingly being transferred to overseas locations, resulting in the need to attract, nurture and retain talent from all over the world. How can firms with strong national roots manage their global human resources competently without giving up their home-grown competitive strengths? How can they effectively integrate managers who neither know the business cultures nor the languages of their firms’ home countries? …….”
NPR: ”Confronting Homogeneity In Apple’s Boardroom”
Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an event at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California.
”Apple shareholders will be voting on a proposal at the annual meeting Feb. 26. It’s a proposal that the company opposes, which calls for the tech leader to increase diversity in its senior management.
“This Explains Why More Women Aren’t Landing Board Seats”
Paula Loop, Leader of PwC’s Governance Insights Center
And what it will take to change things
PB Analytics – Japanese Boards, Composition at FYE
Excerpt: As of the last full year end for the 3,678 companies in the PacificData database, there were 4,267 Independent Directors or 10.6% of the total number of Directors. The total number of female Directors was just 966 or 2.4% of the total – well below even the 9.5% ratio of female members of Japan’s House of Representatives.
Deloitte:”Women In The Boardroom”
Statistics defined (p.3)
Total companies analyzed: The company sample size for each country profile.
Percentage of board seats held by women: Calculated by dividing the number of board seats held by women by the total number of board seats in a given sample. The same logic applies for the percentage of board chairs that are women and for the statistics provided for committees.
The Japan Times:”Governance guru pushes Japan Inc. to open up and diversify”
Former trailblazing dean Christina Ahmadjian finds her balance between the classroom and boardroom By Kris Kosaka, June 21, 2015
Christina Ahmadjian, an academic and expert in corporate governance, sits on the boards of several Japanese companies, including Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Japan Exchange Group, the holding company that oversees the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Often the lone foreigner and only woman in the room, Ahmadjian relishes playing gadfly and applying her research to real-life situations.
George Olcott: “Creating Engageable Boards”….And A Comment On The Number Of Foreigners On Japanese Boards
George Olcott, a guest professor at the Faculty of Commerce at Keio University and an outside directorat Hitachi Chemical and Denso Corporation, gave a speech on this topic at the recent Columbia Business School CJEB conference on corporate governance in Japan.
PwC’s 2014 Annual Corporate Directors Survey – The Gender Edition
The global discussion about gender diversity on public company boards continues. Despite practices in several countries like the adoption of quotas, and significant efforts undertaken by a number of organizations in the US to increase gender diversity of directors, the number of women serving as directors has not changed significantly over the last six years. (18% of all S&P 500 directors are now female compared to 16% in 20081.
Beacon Reports: “The cost of Japan’s missed ICT revolution”
Japan did not reap the benefits of the information, computer and technology revolution as did the US at the dawn of the new millennium. Why that is so is the focus of ongoing research by Professor Kyoji Fukao, Director of the Institute of Economic Research at Hitotsubashi University. According to Prof. Fukao, productivity growth in […]