Ericsson’s executive leadership team is mentoring high-performing female employees to help their career progression and create the next generation of women leaders across its global operations.

Last week Recruiter revealed the telecoms giant was hosting special face-to-face ‘unconscious bias’ training courses for thousands of its line managers to achieve its target of having a 30% female workforce by 2020.

A company spokesperson told Recruiter Ericsson is also ensuring all its executive leadership team mentors a high-performing female employee, while the firm’s global leadership members have diversity and inclusion objectives embedded into their hiring strategies.

“Our definition of diversity is broad, but we have decided to have special focus on gender diversity as that is the area where we have identified the greatest need for improvements.

“Competence always comes first; we want to build the best talent in the industry,” the spokesperson added.

“Ericsson does not believe in quotas or reprimands for meeting/not meeting set targets, but want to achieve sustainable change through our company culture, awareness, training and targeted activities. There is no single way to make change happen; companies need a whole ecosystem of measures.”

In 2014, Ericsson launched a Global Diversity & Inclusion Council made up of senior business leaders responsible for driving Ericsson’s D&I strategy.

Last month Recruiter reported how telco firm BT account director and pub industry veteran Emma Causer launched a mentoring scheme to boost the numbers of female senior executives in the UK’s pub industry. 

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