The latest survey by Forbes Insight “Global Diversity and Inclusion – Fostering Innovation through a Diverse Workforce” proved once more, that Diversity is a key driver of innovation and crucial for global success. 85 percent of the about 320 surveyed executives from the Americas, Asia-Pacific and EMEA agreed that a diverse and inclusive workforce is […]
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has announced their diversity strategy for the next four years to come. The new strategy extends to all groups presented in society and its main aim is to develop the organisation to mirror that of its consumers, which entails creating more diversity in its workforce and in its programming. The […]
The European Network Against Racism (ENAR) has progressed its work to find better ways of monitoring ethnic diversity at the workplace in the EU. Being able to track numbers consistently has been seen as key enabler to drive the inclusion of ethnic minorities in employment.
A new code of conduct is being introduced by British headhunters in the wake of criticism that the lack of women on their long and shortlists has been one of the main reasons for the lack of women in management and more specifically in the boardroom. The move follows an independent review into Women on […]
Women currently control about $20 trillion in global annual consumer spending, a figure which could climb to $28 trillion in the next five years. Their $13 trillion in total yearly earnings could reach $18 trillion in the same period. In aggregate, women represent a growth market bigger than China and India combined.
In ‘The Guide to Managing and Developing Young Professionals’, what Gen Y (or Millenials) want from the workplace is assessed and presented along with best practices on how to recruit, manage and develop young professionals. This survey of over 2,300 respondents helps identify the most important aspects of a job for individuals of different generational […]
The World Economic Forum has introduced a quota for female executives at the 2011 Davos summit and at least one of the five delegates sent by “strategic partners” must now be female. A WEF spokesman said, as a membership organization, there is a limited amount that they could do to improve female representation in boardrooms […]
In the recent study ‘Millennials in the Workplace: A Communication Perspective on Millennials, Organisational Relationships and Perform-ance’, Professor Karen Myers and Kamyab Sadaghiani from the University of California, Santa Barbara investigate the impact of communicated values and expectations of Gen Y. Many ‘Millennials’ have distinctive characteristics that may make interacting with them different from with […]
In order to research the social reality of discrimination in Germany, the Free University of Berlin undertook an empirical study, conducted by Prof. Dr. Hubert Rottleuthner and Prof. Dr. Matthias Mahlmann (Institute of Law at the University of Zürich), with the theme “Reality of Discrimination in Germany – Assumptions and Facts”. In order to gain […]
According to a survey conducted by the French organisation Liberation and the economists from the University of Evry, Thierry Laurent and Ferhat Mihoubi, being gay in the workplace has an effect on wages. In the first French study of its kind, the report shows that gay men earn 6.5% less than their heterosexual colleagues in […]
