VW rewarded executives with Top-Manager-cereals

Volkswagen has appointed 18 men and four women in the TMK: the Top Management circle. In addition to a certificate you have received an "a specially formulated Top-Manager-cereals". Why, exactly, is unclear. the By Max Hägler Max Hägler

Max Hägler is a Department editor at Business. Born in Munich, studied political science there. While the civil service structure of a publishing GmbH. For the election to the Bundestag 2005 he began to report as a country correspondent for the "taz" from Bavaria. Since the summer of 2008, he is in the süddeutsche Zeitung: as a Bayern correspondent in Regensburg, and later as a business correspondent for Baden-Württemberg.

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There are gifts in the work life, the result is a little bit of sense. Angela Merkel received in her last months, as the CDU leader of your party, among other things: a baton, Hiking socks, and a yellow rain coat. The baton is self-explanatory. And Outdoor Equipment, she said: "this is a gift, I conclude that they won't let me stand in the rain - I think that's great!" Markus Söder got by the way a white Bathrobe. What some - especially critics - also very suitable for keep.

but What are we to think of it, if you get in a career change, a specially mixed grains collection from the employer? The question currently some influential people within the Volkswagen group. The 18 men and four women have been appointed in the last week in the TMK, the Top Management circle, where you earned even more than in the OMC, the Upper Management circle and within the VW is still better.

"A specially formulated Top-Manager-cereals"

So a cast is, of course, appreciated. In the message of the house so everything is listed exactly: The average Age is 47 years. The proportion of women at 18 per cent, and it is reading that you are proud of that, because previously, this was almost below the threshold of perception. He hoped, said chief of staff Gunnar Kilian in any case, "that the spirit of the new Top-Manager balances their at the moment numerical inferiority".

Finally, one learns that there were at this elite Party in the Casino also presents: "From the Hand" of the personnel Board and the personnel Manager Maren Gräf have each received a "certificate of appointment". As you know from other authorities.

"A specially formulated Top-Manager-cereals". What may seem strange, is understandable, if you know what you need to make VW TMKler in the future. It is "Leadership" to "the promotion of experiments, or the stimulation of creativity," said Kilian, not without warning: "our ancient virtues, and survival remain important!" Everything is different, yet somehow, as usual - who gets such a task, it needs either a rain coat. Or, if necessary, a cereal with plenty of chocolate, as a food for the Nerves.