In the public sector vacant posts are not just a result of poor pay and overwork but of poor treatment of staff due to institutional apathy towards staff subject to bullying, racism and misogyny. And a perceived lack of support from HR.
Recent reports about the NHS, the London Met police force and the London Fire and Rescue service have highlighted a disturbing and persistent culture of...
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06 févr. 2023 - 14:14
According to some recent research at Columbia Business School https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/newsroom/newsn/1879/mens-honest-overconfidence-may-lead-to-male-domination-in-the-csuite men typically over over estimate their achievements and abilities by 30%. They are not consciously exaggerating but genuinely believe they are considerably more talented than they are. All to often...
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13 janv. 2023 - 21:02
Looking at the video and film clips, film makers in the USA think bullying at school, in the work place and in leisure venues is common place. They also believe all bullies get their comeuppance. But only by picking on the wrong person who violently and with maximum efficiency breaks bones and busts heads using fists and feet. The message seems to be learn to fight.
Does the message...
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06 sept. 2022 - 07:14
You may have already come across this but for the half of
the population not familiar with male public toilets there are
urinals with a difference in some locations. These urinals have a
life size, very realist house fly painted on the porcelain, dead
centre. The thinking is that this improves the users aim as they
feel compelled to treat it as a target. This seems...
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10 juil. 2022 - 09:50
If your organisation has or aspires to a diverse workforce your
managers should be able to demonstrate cultural competence yet most
managers would feel I’ll prepared to pass a Cultural Competence test.
Of even greater concern is the number of organisations claiming to be
striving for Equality and Inclusion and yet when appointing managers
they do not stipulate in the Person...
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05 mars 2022 - 11:41
When it comes to getting the message across and driving lasting change
are middle managers the problem ? Is the solution to bypass them and
appeal directly to their staff?
I found my self agreeing with an article in Human Resource
Director ( February). The authors were saying how important it was to
engage with middle managers if an organisation wanted to drive lasting
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18 févr. 2022 - 12:26
In Star Trek when the Enterprise first encounters the Borg they
announce themselves with the now infamous phrase “ We are the Borg,
resistance is futile , you will be assimilated.” Is
your organisation like the Borg seeking out people from different
cultures and backgrounds to add their knowledge and skills to benefit
the company but expecting them to give up their...
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09 févr. 2022 - 16:15
The best way to smash the glass ceiling, the most effective way
of getting a diverse senior management team and how to ensure
managers have good people skills.
Organisations that want to promote Equality, Diversity and
Inclusion should stop appointing incompetent managers.
I believe most HR professionals would describe their role as
removing obstacles to...
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08 sept. 2020 - 06:03
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A project that is not justified by cost and effort and whose purpose
is to make the instigator look good. The most famous was the USA race
with the Soviet Union to put a man on the Moon the cost of which could
not be justified but was intended to demonstrate capitalism was better
than communism and the USA was the greatest.
Putting a man on the moon was an extortionately...
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22 juil. 2020 - 10:35
We need to talk about how we talk about Black Lives Matter (BLM) in
the work place because the subject still has a faint air of menace
about it. If people are reluctant to talk about diversity for fear of
saying the wrong thing then organisations will have a tick box
approach to diversity which looks impressive but doesn't change the
culture. This all to common superficial approach...
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08 oct. 2019 - 11:20
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There is a lot of anger and frustration about. The use of
inflammatory language by tabloid news papers, radio shocks jocks and
the Prime Minister means that people in the work place feel freer to
use the same language and show the same lack of concern for their
colleagues feelings. Managers are expected to challenge inappropriate
and offensive language but it’s harder if such...
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08 août 2019 - 15:18
You have heard of the glass ceiling but are you aware of the cliff
edge ? The glass ceiling is that invisible barrier to promotion. The
expression was originally coined to explain why women found it so
difficult to progress to senior management post but could equally be
used to explain the absence of women and men from minority ethnic
groups. The cliff edge is where a woman or some...
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05 août 2019 - 14:22
“ What we need is a team of heroic chief executives willing to
step up and move outside of the comfort zone and take personal risks.
.....We are trying to creat tipping points....The premise is that
chief executives need to drive change in the absence of politicians
doing it right now.....Business that do not embrace issues of
diversity , sustainability and equal rights will...
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03 avr. 2019 - 14:18
The public sector is expected to behave differently to the
private sector. Where as the private sector often requires legislation
to improve the condition of workers or act in a way that does not
maximise profit the public sector has a wider remit to set a good
example for the benefit of the wider community. Local Authorities are
expected to be model employers, or they were!
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21 avr. 2017 - 11:16
It was just a short " chatty" piece in the Guardian. A conversation in the play ground. It was not the mundaneness of the topic that jarred it was the language. The word "depressed" was used when the meaning was feed up, sad or disappointed. There was reference to people "going insane" and " losing their mind" on social media when "worked up" or "over excited" would have been more...
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Hull university has apparently issued guidance to students on the use of gender neutral language informing them that they they risk their work being down graded if they fail to adopt this approach. I was surprised students needed to be told. I would have though that long before arriving at university they would have appreciated the importance of language, that they would have noted...
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12 juil. 2014 - 15:39
Women in senior management are more likely than men to be sacked or forced out. The frequency with which this happens has been recognised by a new corporate phrase "pushed off the glass cliff". Researchers at the global management company Strategy& found that women are forced out of chief executive positions more than a third of the time , while only a quarter of men in a...
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12 juil. 2014 - 15:08
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Labour did it for female parliamentary candidates, senior police offers have asked to change the law to do it, the judiciary recently stated it was the type of radical way foreward that was necessary and now it is suggested that the Civil Service should adopt it. We are talking about positive discrimination. In the case of the Civil Service it is to address the under representation...
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12 juil. 2014 - 15:40
It is 45 years since women at the Ford Dagenham car plant went on strike for fair pay. The sewing machinists were angry at being treated as unskilled workers. Their grievance exposed the difference in pay between men and women and led to the Equal Pay Act. Despite the law 45 years on there is still a 15% pay gap. And despite the first female general secretary the gap is widening. The public...
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12 juil. 2014 - 13:03
Can we still afford equality? The government doesn't think so. It certainly thinks we can't afford the Equality and Human Rights Commission – that's why they cut its budget from £70m to £17m and the staff from 525 to 207.
But what message does their reduced status give out?
Will the public sector take this as a green light to cut back on equality? Will the working groups meet less...
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