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5. February 2018 || by Diversity Team || Newsletter, Not-for-Profit, Politics ||
For D&I practitioners, the societal climate and political environment are essential context factors. Both have direct impact on what organisations are doing in regards to diversity, equal opportunities or integration. A first of its kind report shows how societal and political dynamics relating to D&I have been changing in recent years – to the point […]
Tags: english, ethnicity origin race, gender, lgbtqi*, mixed abilities
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19. January 2018 || by Diversity Team || Culture & Leadership, HR, Newsletter, Politics ||
When it comes to the proportion of women in management, the fronts seem to be ideologically hardened. From data selection and analysis to interpretation and choice of words, polarised positions rumble all over the country. (Almost) all of them, however, want to achieve the same goals and could all work together. A reframing for business […]
Tags: gender, german
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4. January 2018 || by Diversity Team || Corporate Practice / Strategien und Instrumente, Marketing, Newsletter ||
Leveraging Diversity for market success represents a huge – and largely untapped – potential. Linking the value of differences to both your customer base and your brand and hence selling proposition can be powerful. But what if the product strategy fails in the first place? Two current examples from Germany/Switzerland and France.
Tags: english, ethnicity origin race, gender
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22. November 2017 || by Michael Stuber || Editorial, Events, Newsletter, Not-for-Profit, Politics ||
The German conference of Tagessspiegel and Diversity Charter has become one of the household events for German diversity practitioners. The organisers see this as a mandate not only to present current trends, but also to offer an appealing mix of methods and a broad range of topics. With success.
Tags: ethnicity origin race, gender, german
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3. November 2017 || by Diversity Team || HR, Newsletter, Politics ||
Admitting and understanding pay gaps is not easy for societies nor employers. A comprehensive pay gap analysis in the UK revealed inequalities for women and men, for ethnic groups and for people with a disability. Related recommendations go beyond traditional ways to address gender pay gaps, and they question wide-spread communication styles in the field.
Tags: english, gender
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30. October 2017 || by Diversity Team || Corporate Practice / Strategien und Instrumente, Marketing, Newsletter ||
Showing a few different characters in your advertisements is a simple way to leverage Diversity for business. Arguably, it’s too simple nowadays when diversity is a default state of many crowds. A new Levi’s® ad manages to capture and convey the spirit of D&I with a new quality.
Tags: age, english, ethnicity origin race, gender, holistic, lgbtqi*
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14. August 2017 || by Diversity Team || Corporate Practice / Strategien und Instrumente, Publications ||
ENEL’s current issue of their corporate magazine is dedicated to how to create value for business by fostering diversity inside corporations. The company describes itself as a laboratory of diversity.
Tags: english, gender, holistic
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11. August 2017 || by Michael Stuber || Culture & Leadership, Editorial, HR ||
A google employee was fired for spreading harmful stereotypes about women – ten pages long. The following discussion revolved around freedom of speech and existing (gender) gaps in the tech industry. Surprisingly, there was little refection about how D&I did not reach large, mainstream audiences over the past years.
Tags: english, gender, holistic
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22. July 2017 || by Diversity Team || HR, Newsletter ||
What happens when women try to break into a male domain? A real story from Venice allows Diversity practitioners to verify key dynamics they should be aware of. Meet the first female and the first transgender Gondolieras…
Tags: english, gender
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11. July 2017 || by Diversity Team || Corporate Practice / Strategien und Instrumente, HR, Newsletter ||
For many years, Diversity managers in traditional sectors admired high-tech companies for their cool HR and D&I programmes. More recently, the D&I community has started to frown over negative headlines from some ‘cool’ businesses. A closer look at Apple, Google and Facebook.
Tags: english, ethnicity origin race, gender, lgbtqi*
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