Young people do not want quotas but a good Work-Life balance and an individual life design. Those are the key findings of Continental’s 10th representative ‘Continental Student Survey’, conducted in Germany with about 1,000 students. In 2013,
The introduction of the digital TV led to problems for partially sighted and blind people as this technical revolution made watching TV impossible for them: While in the past a combination of hearing, residual sight, and audio description (AD) was used to describe what was shown on-screen, this information nowadays is written on the screen […]
This year, the Italian bank Unicredit was awarded four top recognitions, two second and three third ranks in the Italian “AIFIn Cerchio d’Oro dell’innovazione finanziaria”, an award organized by the Italian Financial Innovation Association with the aim to promote the role of innovation in banking, financial sectors, and insurance). Due to the fact that UniCredit […]
A lot has been published and discussed about the way of working of Generation Y – the first generation that grew up with the Internet as an integral part of their world. And many people wonder how the future workforce can be integrated in the existing system. Instant feedback is one of the obvious aspects […]
According to the OECD, 40% of all young people with a tertiary education in G20 and OECD countries could be Chinese by 2020. As a consequence of different development speeds in the G20, the share of tertiary graduates in the global talent pool coming from Europe, Japan and the United States will continue to decrease […]
Each year, Austria’s enterprises pay a total of more than €70 million as an annual compensation fee for not employing as many disabled people as the law requires. Those companies not only loose money, they also miss out on the opportunity to get valuable insights from employees with a distinct perspective, also on the needs […]
After Norway introduced a mandatory 40 percent quota of women on (supervisory) boards of directors for all publicly listed firms, the value of those companies has decreased as a result for several reasons. This is one of the key findings of a study conducted by two US American Finance professors from the University of Michigan. […]
This year’s World Development Report (WDR) published by the World Bank is dedicated to Gender Equality. The in-depth economic analysis shows progress and barriers in the process to set out for more gender equality worldwide. For the first time, the World Bank shows a notable shift in attitude towards recognising gender equality as a development […]
Many employers but also managers and employees seem to think that the company has no part to play in employees’ personal lives. The spheres of ‘work’ and (private) ‘life’ have thus been discussed separately and with regards to their balance, how to navigate or integrate the two. A new research now suggests a much stronger […]
Success through Diversity Management: 135 empirical studies (up from 90) on the economic relevance, benefits and value-added from D&I Diversity and Inclusion has been established as a strategic approach in the U.S., across EMEA, in New Zealand, Australia, Canada and other countries worldwide. But, what in fact can organisations gain from Diversity? Which empirically measurable […]
