2nd ICAI 2022

International Conference on Automotive Industry 2022

Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic

views, experiences, or access to networks (Beji et al., 2021). Harjoto et al. (2018) published one of the few studies focused on the link between nationality diversity and inclusion practice. They find that board nationality diversity is positively related to diversity practices (Ozbilgin, 2019). There are few studies focused on the link between board members and their educational level. Beji et al. (2020) found a significant association between CSR overall score and the percentage of highly educated chairperson. Directors with higher educational level are more sensitive to the ethical issues required by some stakeholder and compliance with regulations. A lot of studies have found that more educated managers are more interested in environmental issues (e.g. Zhou et al., 2022). The results of previous studies indicate that CEOs with shorter tenure are more willing to undertake socially responsible activities such as implementation of various Diversity & Inclusion practices (Yuan et al., 2019). In harmony with revealed arguments by Miller (1991), we present a hypothesis that CEOs having shorter tenure are more likely to report CSR information to reduce pressure from the stakeholders (Khan et al., 2020). 3. Methodology and Data Sample The paper covers 44 automotive companies from the Czech Republic, which have been selected based on their volume of sales and turnover for year 2021. The data have been collected from companies’ websites, online quantitative survey, which took place in the period June-December 2021. Furthermore, we have collected data from Albertina, LinkedIn and consultancy groups reports onHuman Resource Management, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. The availability of Diversity practices was checked through the firms’ websites, annual reports and social media activity, which helped the authors emphasize on the data reliability (see Table 1 below). Table 1: List of Automotive companies- data collection on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Firm name Diversity Practices Equity and Inclusion Policies SKODA AUTO X X Hyundai Nosovice X X DENSO X X TPCA Kolin X X Irisbus Iveco X X SOR Libchavy TATRA Koprivnice Avia and Ashok Leyland Motors X Benteler X Continental X X MAGNA X X

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