The Motala model. How the Swedes trigger change with grassroots strategy and bottom up approach.

This month we take a look to Sweden: We are interested in how our Swedish SWOPS practice partner, the participating companies and the consulting teams cooperate when it comes to the central objective of SWOPS, to successfully achieve the development of a structural change oriented personnel strategy.

Read More

“Is it beneficial, if we are all as equal as possible …?” – How SWOPS renews recruiting processes in Austria

First results were now also contributed by the Austrian partners of the BPW Club Berlin, project coordinator of the EU-funded project SWOPS which is currently underway with a consulting tool for structural change oriented personnel strategy. This is even more exciting since the Austrians have entered SWOPS at a later stage than our partner organizations from Germany, France and Sweden.

Read More

“We are doing already pretty much for women in our company ” – SWOPS shows that reality also in France is sometimes another.

The acquisition of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) through SWOPS showed that French employers rely on the government-mandated action plans for more equality in the workplace, but occasionally leave the implementation overlooked.

Our project partners from France have conducted interviews with seven selected local SMEs and carried out wide-ranging research in their area. The original objective of being able to also perform consulting services for the optimization of the company’s human resources management in the French SME, proved to be only partially applicable. The reason: Since 2012 France has a law on equal opportunities in employment between women and men. This law requires companies with more than 50 employees to sign collective wage agreements, or – where this is not possible – to develop so-called “action plans”. From a catalog of eight possible areas of action, the companies have to adopt three emphases: recruitment, education, training, promotion of the careers, re-entry, optimization of working conditions, equal pay and work-life balance.

Read More

Almost like Christmas – SWOPS certificates assignment at KNAUER

The for their innovative strength multi-awarded KNAUER Scientific Equipment GmbH also shows inventiveness and strength of implementation as SWOPS partner. Ceremony for the participants of the in-house SWOPS project group for their commitment to more opportunity fairness in the company.

Read More

Season’s Greetings & Gender-Balance in 2016