UNSW BUSINESS SCHOOL
International Human Resource Management
MGMT 5949
Student Id Number-Z5102653
Student Name-Yash Patwari
Case analysis on-
Global Diversity and Inclusion at Royal Dutch Shell
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Case Overview
Royal Dutch Shell is an Oil and Gas company created in 1907 through the alliance of the oil company Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and the British Shell Transport and Trading Company. Since mid-1990’s Shell started giving attention to Diversity and Inclusion (D&I). Shell has been placing great interest on D&I since that time. The company was restructured in 2005 and Jeroen Van Der Veer became the first CEO of the company. During that time rising oil prices helped Shell’s expansion projects. Since the 2000s Shell had been building its D&I around three areas: Talent, Leadership, and Competitiveness. In 2005, Shell had set three global targets based on Gender, Nationality, and Inclusion. During the time of great recession Peter Voser succeeded Van deer as the new CEO of Shell in 2008. The economic downturn led to a drop in the prices of oil which sunk the profits of the company. Voser announced that Shell urgently needed to restructure. Voser restructured the Management structure of the