The true legacy of the Olympic Games is not measured in world records or medals table but progress on a wider front.
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You've read the book, you've seen the film or you've heard all about it on social media, well now ii's in the office...and its the same but different for women.
Grey suits, grey hair, grey is the colour of management. Grey comes in many shades from the gravitas of silver grey to deceit of dark gray. Like shades of gray subtle differences in management behaviour distinguish pain...
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According to Manchester United footballer Patrice Evra you can make a racist remark and not be a racist. Was he just saying that the opponent who he accused of repeatedly racially abusing him was not racist to appease his fellow professionals? Did he mean look this guy is not a wicked person just ignorant and insensitive? I can understand the reluctance to call someone a racist, it is after...
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This is a work in progress. An attempt to further the discussion on managing a diverse workforce. I am seeking comments and suggestions and I am not afraid of a little controversy.
They thought gender was no longer an issue but the statistics on women in top jobs proved that wrong. They assumed race had been over taken by faith in the be careful what you say category but were still...
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Culture eats equality strategy for breakfast, well that’s my experience as a senior manager with lead responsibility for equality and diversity.
So we shifted the focus away from policy, procedures and targets and the implied criticism of managers’ performance. We set out to help managers deal with the day to day issues in managing a diverse workforce.
The young woman who finds...
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Equal opportunity monitoring.
Most organisations don’t know how many disabled people they employ, how many gay people work for them or which faiths make up the staff group. All they do know with any degree of certainty is the age and gender profile of their organisation plus may be some information on ethnicity. The reason for this is that staff have proved very reluctant to...
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How high your heels are, how often you change your hair style and how
much your designer handbag cost are not the type of observations you
expect to read about in a serious article about a chief executive of
one of the biggest local authorities . Then again this article was
only masquerading as serious journalism when in fact it was a general
criticism of the pay of chief executives...
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