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Exploring director recruitment. What characteristics constitute an appointable candidate?
No full textWe investigate how professional recruiters perceive and assess potential board director candidates. Based on a human capital perspective, individual characteristics will represent certain human capital resources, perceived as more or less useful for the firm. We focus on what characteristics are critical for a candidate to be perceived as appointable to a board. We are particularly interested in the role visible vs. more hidden aspects of human capital in these assessments. The aim of the study is to uncover central actors’ ideas and assumptions of what constitutes the ideal board director. This will add
knowledge as to how board compositions are created and
changed.
We conducted eight semi-structured, in-depth interviews with professional recruiters in Germany and Norway. The results show that formal competence is partly downplayed as selection criteria for board positions, while experience has a central role. Further, our results show that experiences have both a concrete and a symbolic side, where certain individual characteristics appear to represent an image of a successful director of a board. Further, our data show that symbolic capital, labeled “habitus”, is a crucial prerequisite for an individual to be appraised as an ideal candidate. The results indicate preferences for stability and predictability in recruitment processes, which may contribute to explain the persistently low
proportion of women on corporate boards
Plädoyer für eine Diversifizierung des unternehmerischen Leitbildes in Forschung und Beratung
No full textSeit den 1980er Jahren erlangt der Vertrauensbegriff im organisationalen Kontext eine immer größer werdende Bedeutung. Dennoch sind die Einflussfaktoren, welche auf die unterschiedlichen Arten des organisationalen Vertrauens wirken, weitestgehend unbekannt. Daher sollen in diesem Beitrag durch qualitative und quantitative Methoden zunächst die unterschiedlichen organisationalen Rahmenbedingungen zweier verschiedeneer sozialer Dienstleister eufgezeigt werden. In einem weiteren Schritt sollen mittels quantitativer Methoden die Einflussfaktoren auf die unterschiedlichen Formen des Vertrauens in Organisationen dargestellt sowie Konsequenzen für die praktische Arbeit abgeleitet werden
Asians and Europeans - Similar and Yet Different: A Comparison of Students' Attitudes towards Learning and Studying across Four Countries
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