American Express has developed a programme called Blue Work, which marries various work styles with appropriate work spaces. This programme helps the company manage not only the new work preferences of different generations, but is also cost-effective and increases productivity and employee engagement.
In Stuttgart, Germany, the 24th of September marked the first meeting of Daimler Group’s new GL@D network, which stands for the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Network of Daimler. The goal of the network is to address homosexuality in the workplace.
In a time when many companies are maintaining hiring freezes and still unsure of the 2010 economic outlook, Goldman Sachs is taking advantage of the swelling pool of unhired talent. Goldman Sachs is pushing ahead in the field hit hardest by the crisis and has launched an aggressive recruiting drive to build its asset management […]
European and International stakeholders in the Information and Communications Technology sector have joined together to produce a European Code of Best Practices in ICT. The group recognises that not only is the number of young people studying and choosing careers in ICT is decreasing, but a skills gap is predicted and women are under-represented in […]
PricewaterhouseCoopers newly released “10 Minutes on Managing Diversity” provides insight into how organizations can best create, develop and maintain the diversity of their talent base. PwC recently convened a Diversity Leadership Forum, in which more than 700 business leaders participated in a discussion about strengthening diversity efforts during challenging economic times.
Leaders from Pfizer’s Emerging Markets Business Unit (EMBU) gathered in Dubai for a global leadership summit. Issues particularly affecting the role of women in the workplace and how to foster the development of all talented people in a company and industry dealing with immense global challenges and new opportunities were explored.
Knowing that the main focus of gender diversity within the workplace is on women, National Grid in partnership with Opportunity Now sponsored an event called ‘Focus on Fathers’. The aim is to make the workplace a diverse place that offers flexible/agile working with equal pay a core organisational offering, not just to women.
Diversity can be an economic added value for companies and for cities too – if it is effetively organised. The potential principle of diversity offers a pragmatic system, by means of which organisations can consciously deploy differences as resources. This may, however, require radical rethinking on the part of those involved. read more
Am 20. Mai 2009 wurden im Rahmen einer festlichen Gala in Baden bei Wien die diesjährigen „Besten Arbeitgeber Europas“ ausgezeichnet. Microsoft konnte sich gegen mehr als 1.350 teil-nehmende Unternehmen aus 16 europäischen Ländern durchsetzen und die begehrte Trophäe gewinnen. Die „100 Besten Arbeitgeber Europas“ werden auf der Basis nationaler Wettbewerbe ermittelt –
Die Daimler AG wird zum zweiten Mal in Folge mit dem von TOTAL E-QUALITY Deutsch-land e.V. verliehen Prädikat ausgezeichnet. Bundesweit werden so Organisationen aus Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Verwaltung ausgezeichnet, die den Einfluss von Faktoren wie Familienfreund-lichkeit und Chancengleichheit auf ihren wirtschaftlichen Erfolg erkannt haben.
