2. Der Business Case bzw. „Case for Change“: Warum sich Organisationen verändern müssen

Originaltext: „In testing the performance of 2,360 companies globally over the last six years, our analysis shows that it would on average have been better to have invested in corporates with women on their management boards than in those without“ (Eigene Übersetzung der Autorin).

Originaltext: „In 2012, Ernst & Young reviewed 22,000 audits that our member firms were performing in four countries on three continents. We found that gender-balanced teams were much more successful than other teams. They don’t just outperform other teams in quality – they also bring back better returns“ (Eigene Übersetzung der Autorin).

Originaltext: „Companies that embrace diversity and inclusion in all aspects of their business statistically outperform their peers“ (Eigene Übersetzung der Autorin).

Originaltext: „Organizations that built these high-impact D&I strategies and practices strive to create a ‘conversation’ or relationship with employees, which communicates to them that they are fully understood and valued by the organization“ (Eigene Übersetzung der Autorin).

Originaltext: „Fairness reflects an assumption about fundamental equality … about not putting your rank in front of other people’s interests“ (Eigene Übersetzung der Autorin).

Originaltext: „There is a perfect correlation between education and income. As a result the power at home has shifted and will shift further. ‘She’ decides when the family is going to eat out, when they will order the new kitchen or bath, go on vacation, buy a new car“ (Eigene Übersetzung der Autorin).

Originaltext: „We consider a ‘full-potential̕ scenario in which women participate in the economy identically to men, and find that it would add up to $28 trillion, or 26 percent, to annual global GDP in 2025 compared with a business-as-usual scenario. This impact is roughly equivalent to the size of the combined US and Chinese economies today. We also analyzed an alternative ‘best-in-region̕ scenario in which all countries match the rate of improvement of the best-performing country in their region. This would add as much as $12 trillion in annual 2025 GDP, equivalent in size to the current GDP of Japan, Germany, and the United Kingdom combined, or twice the likely growth in global GDP contributed by female workers between 2014 and 2025 in a business-as-usual scenario“ 
(Eigene Übersetzung der Autorin).

Originaltext: „The study highlights a paradoxical consequence of the PC norm. While PC behaviour is generally thought to threaten the free expression of ideas, we found that positioning PC as the office standard provides a layer of safety in the workplace that fosters creativity“ (Eigene Übersetzung der Autorin).

Originaltext: „Diversity and Independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus and compromise“ (Eigene Übersetzung der Autorin).

Originaltext: „Generally speaking, people would prefer to spend time with others who agree with them rather than disagree with them. […] When you think about diversity, it often comes with more cognitive processing and more exchange of information and more perceptions of conflict“ (Eigene Übersetzung der Autorin).