US President Donald Trump With his demand that companies are supposed to move away from their diversity policy and give anti-variety declarations, more and more European corporations. After the Swiss pharmaceutical companies Novartis and Roche The German business software manufacturer already reacted SAPone of the European pioneers in terms of equality in the company.
Like that Handelsblatt reports on Saturday, SAP will be his goal of 40 percent women in the workforce no longer continue. In addition, the United States is no longer included in the quota of female managers. Management announced this in an internal email, whereupon that Handelsblatt refers.
So that’s not enough. Also the Remuneration policy is modified. The gender diversity is therefore no longer used as a scale for managers. The criterion “Women in Management Positions” therefore replaces “Business Health Culture Index”, ie the health of the workforce.
Reason: response to external changes
As a “global company with a strong presence in the USA”, one has to react to “external changes, such as current legal developments”, the adjustments in the “Diversity & Inclusion” area are justified in the email. At the same time, the group uses the “changed framework conditions” to “realign strategically reorganized” the programs, it said.
SAP confirmed Handelsblatt-Id request that there is a change in the criteria for the board remuneration.
The background to the changes may be that SAP fears to be excluded from public orders in the United States if the new requirements of the Trump government are not met. The United States is an important sales market for the software manufacturer, zAhl -rich ministries, authorities and the army use SAP systems.