More women to power the boardroom

PETALING JAYA: The glass-ceiling in Malaysia has continued to be weakened with the latest figure indicating 16.1% women on boards of Bursa Malaysia’s Top 100 Public Listed Companies (PLC), as of September 2016.   This has been a marked progress compared to the 14% registered last year. The latest performance indicated that engagement with upper…

Investors Must Play Role For Workplace Diversity

September 25, 2015 (Kuala Lumpur) — Johan Mahmood Merican, CEO of TalentCorp, says many public-listed Malaysian companies are falling short of international standards for gender, race, and age diversity. He tells Bloomberg TV Malaysia’s Sophie Kamaruddin that social sanctions on the matter may help level-up corporate Malaysia. Source: Bloomberg TV Malaysia