Program mentor perlu serius - TPM
KUALA LUMPUR 25 Julai - Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin berkata, program mentor yang serius perlu diambil dalam mempersiapkan wanita tempatan untuk bersedia berada dalam senarai lembaga pengarah syarikat.
Kata Timbalan Perdana Menteri, ia termasuk dengan mengadakan kerjasama erat di antara syarikat tempatan dan antarabangsa yang mengiktiraf kedudukan wanita dengan peranan penting tersebut.
''Saya berpandangan, kita memerlukan satu proses penambahbaikan supaya lebih ramai wanita tempatan menguasai kemampuan untuk berada dalam senarai lembaga pengarah sesebuah organisasi.
''Kerana itu saya berharap Kementerian Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga dan Masyarakat mampu mengetuai dan memberi tumpuan kepada perkara ini," katanya ketika menyampaikan ucaptama pada Sidang Kemuncak Wanita 2011 di sini, hari ini.
Hadir sama isteri beliau, Puan Sri Noorainee Abdul Rahman.
Muhyiddin menambah, ketika usaha-usaha diambil pelbagai pihak untuk melahirkan wanita tempatan yang berpengaruh, sektor swasta juga perlu memainkan peranan dengan lebih telus dalam menilai kemampuan pekerja.
Sektor swasta, jelas beliau, perlu seiring dengan apa yang dilakukan oleh kerajaan yang sentiasa telus dan penuh berintegriti dalam melantik pembuat keputusan di sektor awam.
''Pada masa yang sama, wanita tempatan juga perlu bijak menonjolkan diri mereka termasuk dari sudut kemampuan menyelesaikan masalah, kepantasan bertindak dan kebijaksanaan," katanya.
26 July 2011
The Sun
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/89506
DPM: Prepare women to be 'board' ready
PETALING JAYA (July 25, 2011): The Women, Family and Community Development Ministry should take the lead in ensuring that more women are trained to hold positions in the company’s boardroom, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said.
“I believe that there has to be a serious training intervention strategy.
“There must be much more engagement between international corporations who have included women on their boards and local corporations,” he said in his keynote address at the Women Summit 2011 at the Sime Darby Convention Centre here.
Acknowledging that there is bound to be an adjustment process for more women to learn boardroom rules of conduct, Muhyiddin urged Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil to kickstart programmes focusing on women in the corporate sector to prepare them for the decision making positions.
Explaining how he perceived women becoming an effective component of boardroom discussions, Muhyiddin said firstly the women need to be exposed to more compelling and broad spectrum education programmes.
“Courses for company directors and establishing a strong knowledge base for potential directors are vital.
“Women must be able and should be given the confidence to emerge as corporate top leaders,” he stressed.
Muhyiddin said while every effort is made to make women ‘board’ ready, the private sector must also “be much more transparent” in their search for talent.
Citing the recently released Davis report of the United Kingdom, he said one of the reasons why there were so few women on boards is that there were few transparent procedures for appointing people.
Thus, Muhyiddin said the government would like to inject much more transparency and integrity in the appointment of decision-makers.
He also urged women in the corporate sector to bring in their enthusiasm for addressing challenges, candidness of response and acute intelligence in discussions.
“Women must find ways to put themselves on the radar of head hunters. Board chairmen must become mentors to women with boardroom potential,” Muhyiddin said.
He said creativity and looking beyond conventional benchmarks for experience or expertise should also be taken into consideration.
“This is now being called looking at ‘double diversity’. I would like to call it ‘double inclusion’,” he said.
