In most European countries, public dialogue and media features focus on deficits of and conflicts with the migrant population. It has been perpetuated by politicians and media from all camps and colours who have consistently underreported on positive facts, such as the net tax contribution. A new report from the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) […]
Awards and best-practices can be valuable sources of inspiration for Diversity managers who want to create peer pressure in their own organisation. The organisation ‘Working Parents UK’ has just unveiled the winners of their fifth Working Families awards, recognising UK organisations that have developed successful policies and practices to support work-life balance and career development […]
Older people are, on average, more reliable and more productive than younger people. This is one of the most surprising results of the Cogito-Study, which has now been published by the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy. A team of researchers from Berlin, Frankfurt and Stockholm examined the mental performance of 200 […]
The work force is aging as baby boomers move toward retirement. By now, one in ten over-65 year olds are still wage-earners. This question has recently been revisited by the Office of National Statistics in the UK (ONS). When they released a report showing that the number of employees older than 65 have reached far […]
The basic question IF Diversity CAN add value in a business organisation has been investigated by many scientific studies. Due to the nature of academic approaches, each study had to focus on selected aspects and found – depending on the chosen approach – different answers. More recent research tried to
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,
Talent shortages are having a high impact on a company’s ability to meet their clients’ needs. One out of five employers in the EMEA region that are in need of additional talent agree with this statement. This is one of the eye-opening results from the 2013 Talent Shortage Survey conducted by the Manpower Group. Especially […]
For years, Sweden was considered to be a role model of a social state from a Diversity perspective. The government not only provided immense aids for families or young people, it also had a reputation for a very welcoming immigration policy. However,
When the Human Rights Watch published their World Report 2013 drawing on events from the end of 2011 through November 2012, they detected great injustice and violent procedures, that were still undermining people’s rights. Improving fundamental rights and living conditions of ethnic and religious minorities is still an issue, for instance in Somalia or Iraq […]
In the city of Herat, Western Afghanistan, the International Women’s Day 2013 was celebrated by a film festival with films from female directors or with gender themes. The film festival continued for 2 days (7th to 9th of March) during which 30 films were shown. The topics of the films also covered
