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7. June 2012 || by Michael Stuber || Corporate Practice / Strategien und Instrumente, Editorial ||
While the foundation for D&I seems to be robust, current challenges seem to relate to the effective implementation of D&I. With a breadth and depth that was unimaginable 10 years ago, Diversity Management has become a multi-option framework where almost anything appears to be possible. For many, making the right choices is more difficult – […]
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2. April 2012 || by News Desk || Business Case, Newsletter ||
Work organisations are a result of the division of labour. Nevertheless, many stakeholders have difficulties getting the heads around part-time work, especially in management. Job sharing might therefore be a smooth inroad to introduce effective work models for the future workforce, the future economy and the future as a whole.
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2. April 2012 || by News Desk || Business Case, Newsletter ||
Companies have the opportunity to choose from several flexibility tools to retain key talent and improve company performance. Why not take decisions according to employees’ preferences and customise flexible working options to existing needs?
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2. April 2012 || by News Desk || Corporate Practice / Strategien und Instrumente, Newsletter ||
If the law mandated companies to provide day care, fathers and mothers might find it easier to bridge gaps in their childcare arrangements or to worry about regular care at all. An example from the Middle East shows that legal regulations are not enough and what grass root efforts can contribute to make it happen […]
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2. April 2012 || by News Desk || HR, Newsletter ||
Although Europe’s working-age population is shrinking while the 60+ age group is increasing by about two million people per year, only 37% of companies find it ‘fairly important’ to take into account the needs of older consumers when developing products and services directly aimed at them, an internal survey by CSR Europe found. A new […]
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2. April 2012 || by News Desk || Diversity in the Media, Newsletter ||
Tools to support the navigation of work and private life have become household components in international D&I over the past two decades. Large surveys (e.g. WLPS), however, clearly showed a gap in the utilisation rates by gender, with men consistently showing less interest in work/life-programmes than women. This seems paradoxical as recent studies reveal an […]
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7. March 2012 || by Michael Stuber || Corporate Practice / Strategien und Instrumente, Editorial ||
Stand-alone Diversity initiatives have become difficult to justify in recent years. Instead, business was expected to own D&I, to lead the change process and to mainstream Diversity and Inclusiveness into their way of doing business. But what could Diversity practitioners offer to the business to assist the ‘embedding’ approach? Depending on their involvement, managers will […]
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7. December 2011 || by News Desk || Business Case, Newsletter ||
Changes in workplace practise can positively impact and improve the overall performance of employees and productivity of a company, according to new research from Eurofound, the Dublin-based EU agency for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.
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7. December 2011 || by News Desk || Newsletter, Politics ||
Germanys blue chips presented their self-commited objectives for increasing the share of women in management at a summit meeting of the DAX 30 with the federal ministers Kristina Schröder, Ursula von der Leyen, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger and Philipp Rösler. As expected, the individual ambitions vary greatly. However, the Media were barely interested in the public commitments.
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20. September 2011 || by News Desk || Diversity in the Media, Newsletter ||
There is progress in the area of work-life-integration, says a current study of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), but the distribution of an effective balance between work and private life remains unequal across the two genders. The pan-European research reveals that women continue to be the main stakeholders for raising children in most […]
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