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22. October 2007 || by News Desk || Business Case, Newsletter ||
The Orbit Group is celebrating after receiving another award for its Equality & Diversity work. The National Black and New Communities Residents Network (NBNC) have recognised the work carried out by the Orbit Group. It comes after the Group won the Diversity & Race award at this year’s National Housing Federation Neighbourhood Awards.
Tags: age, english, ethnicity origin race
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22. October 2007 || by News Desk || Newsletter, Policy & Politics ||
According to the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) Sweden is at the top of EU countries that are making a genuine effort to stimulate the integration of immigrants. The MIPEX measures policies to integrate migrants in 25 EU Member States and 3 non-EU countries.
Tags: english, ethnicity origin race, globality internationality
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22. October 2007 || by News Desk || Newsletter, Policy & Politics ||
The European Union’s executive commission argued for more linguistic diversity across Europe, stating that knowing more languages can boost cultural diversity, economic growth and intercultural understanding. Leonard Orban, EU commissioner in charge of multilingualism supported the idea to encourage the teaching of two extra languages to students from an early age at schools across the […]
Tags: age, english, globality internationality
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22. October 2007 || by News Desk || Newsletter, Strategy & Tools ||
Businesses in Scotland are being urged to embrace diversity to improve performance and productivity. A new initiative, Equality Matters in Business (EMB), has been jointly set up by Scottish Enterprise (SE), Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and the Scottish Government to highlight the positive benefits of employing a diverse workforce and considering diversity in service […]
Tags: age, english, ethnicity origin race, lgbtqi*, mixed abilities, religion beliefs
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22. October 2007 || by News Desk || D&I in the Media, Newsletter ||
This year, The Employers Forum on Age (EFA) launched a new annual awards programme. The awards ceremony, in October 2007, highlighted the innovative ways employers are tackling age discrimination in the workplace. In the six months since the award programme was launched, over 45 different policies and age initiatives were entered.
Tags: age, english, globality internationality
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22. October 2007 || by News Desk || Newsletter, Policy & Politics ||
In only 9 months of time, the European Disability Forum has met the ambitious challenge launched last January: to collect one million signatures across the European Union in favour of comprehensive EU disability legislation. The President of the European Disability Forum, Yannis Vardakastanis, announced this achievement to the 118 member organisations which were actively involved […]
Tags: english, globality internationality, mixed abilities
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18. October 2007 || by Diversity Team || Events, Strategy & Tools ||
Vielfalt verbindet, gerade in der vielsprachigen, föderalen Schweiz. In diesem Geist lud der Diversity Roundtable Schweiz, ein Netzwerk von Großunternehmen wie Credit Suisse und Novartis, zur ersten großen Diversity Konferenz der Konföderation Helvetica in die ETH Zürich.
Tags: german, holistic
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14. October 2007 || by Diversity Team || Business Case, Media Features ||
Die Zahl der beschäftigten Diversity Manager steigt an. 13 DAX Unternehmen beschäftigen Diversity Manager in Vollzeit. Ihr Job ist es u.a. ein produktives Umfeld zu gestalten, so heißt es in einem Artikel im Personalmagazin, das sich auf eine Studie von Ungleich Besser Diversity Consulting bezieht. Lesen Sie hier mehr über die Studie.
Tags: german, holistic
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4. October 2007 || by News Desk || Business Case, Newsletter ||
Frischen Lesestoff für den Herbst hat das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung jetzt für alle LeserInnen vorgestellt, die sich nicht sicher sind, warum sich Unternehmen neben harten technischen und wirtschaftlichen Fakten mit Faktoren wie Unternehmenskultur, Organisations-, Kompetenz- und Personalentwicklung beschäftigen sollen. Antworten gibt der Leitfaden „Soft Skills als Wettbewerbsfaktor“.
Tags: german, research
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4. October 2007 || by News Desk || HR, Newsletter ||
Die „ausgewählten Kunden“ dürften irritiert gewesen sein, als ihnen Anfang September ein Ero-tikkalender ins Haus flatterte – hatte doch niemand die hoch glänzenden Bildern mit allzu freizü-gigen Damen bestellt. Ein Blick in den Absender der Überraschungspost gab Aufschlüsse: der Kranhersteller Palfinger aus dem benachbarten Österreich wollte seine Produkte ins rechte Bild rücken und damit überdies […]
Tags: ethnicity origin race, gender, german, inclusion
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