Stereotypes and role models typically begin to be forged starting with early childhood. In their fight against gender stereotypes and traditional roles of men and women, the Sodermalm district of Stockholm has recently taken quite a radical new step: to foster the equality between the sexes, it funded the Egalia pre-school for children up to […]
Over the many years of our practical work with Diversity, we have found out that the different concepts and elements that are discussed along with ‘Managing Diversity’ are closely related to the cognitive process, and thus the SORA method. We have finally, in 2009, come to redefine Diversity as The Propelling Potential Principle, through which […]
Last month, three Italian researchers were awarded the Ig Nobel prize for demonstrating mathematically that organisations would become more efficient if they promoted people at random. The Ig Nobel Prizes honour achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to
April 22nd marked Girls Day 2010 in various European countries and over 150,000 placements were offered to young women to spend a day in the workplaces of non-stereotypical female jobs. In the Netherlands, over 2600 girls and 100 companies participated this year. Companies such as Shell, Corus, IBM, Philips, Merck, Unilever, and the Royal Navy […]
A December 2009 survey of almost 500 mothers and fathers run by Dad.info and Netmums showed that 4 out of 10 fathers do not take paternity leave. 72 percent of those who did not take leave gave the reason that they could not afford to take it, while 14 percent said that they didn’t have […]
Young women in the service sector aged between 15 and 19 are being empowered by the ‘Decisions for Life’ campaign. ‘Decisions for Life’ is about empowering women in the service sector and strengthening strategies to address unequal gender relations both in unions as well as the workplace. This campaign offers young women a
Organisations are exploring the needs and perspectives of Generation Y to understand how they can be managed. This generation has grown up with technology, they are completely comfortable with technology and technology has shaped their interactional patterns. Another characteristic of this generation is constant reflection on the relationship between self, work and life. This reflective […]
Untersuchung zur Berücksichtigung von Vielfalt in der Personalbeschaffung bei den wichtigsten deutschen Firmen zeigt Defizite bei Recruiting und Employer Branding. Deutsche Unternehmen drohen, im Wettbewerb um gute Fach- und Führungskräfte den Anschluss zu verpassen. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt eine Studie der Kölner Unternehmensberatung Ungleich Besser. Die Analyseergebnisse zeigen, dass nur rund 50 Prozent der größten […]
Intel has introduced a formal global supplier diversity program to increase global sourcing and to redefine diversity to include global suppliers. A number of efforts have been launched to identify international diverse suppliers. “We have spent the better part of 2007 positioning ourselves to identify our international supply base,
Laut einer Studie, die der IT-Dienstleister Computacenter gemeinsam mit dem Meinungsfor-schungsinstitut TNS Emnid durchgeführt hat, ist Informatik bei der Berufswahl von Jugendli-chen nicht einmal mehr dritte Wahl. Obwohl die IT-Branche verzweifelt nach Nachwuchs sucht und die Jugendlichen das auch wissen, kann sich nur rund ein Drittel der 750 Befragten vorstel-len, in einem IT-Beruf zu arbeiten.
