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 […]
These are contra dictionary times: the labour market is tense, companies are struggling to find promising talents while at the same time unemployment rates are increasing. Nowadays, one in five young Europeans between 20-30 years are without a job. In countries like Spain and Greece even half of the young population is unemployed. Based on
Do Diversity programmes survive economic downturn? This is one interesting question that also leads to the question what happens to diversity target groups when times get tough? Current analysis show that economic crisis have a significant, negative impact on discrimination in the workplace ‘due to performance effects’. According to reports in the French newspaper ‘Le […]
The employer image of companies has always been closely related to their product images and their general reputation. However, the latest graduate survey results from Sweden-based consulting firm Universum reveals the full complexity of an international labour market. Not surprisingly, large US multinationals with strong brands dominate the top list. This might also be due […]
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 […]
The ageing of the population has been an issue of concern since birth rates dropped sharply in the late 1960s, and continue to be a threat in a number of economic areas. But could the process of ageing also be seen as option to create new opportunities? This past year the European Year of Active […]
Young people that are disabled or are having health problems have been unnoticed by both employment policy and practices. This is a key result of a current report from the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (‘Eurofound’) discussing the active inclusion of these youngsters. The main aim of the research was […]
‘Broad and inclusive’ – experts nowadays agree that the concept of Diversity embraces many if not numerous or even all kinds of differences. But when it comes to concrete implementation and active promotion of distinct dimensions, more or less rigorous choices are being made. A couple of years ago, those choices were made regarding what […]
A new survey launched by HR magazine UK reveals a huge gap between the stated commitment towards the importance of a diverse workforce and the strategic action of the UK’s HR decision-makers. Though 82% out of 271 HR directors, chief executives, managing directors and HR managers stated that diversity and equality were ‘high on their […]
