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Can HR really fix organisations’ diversity problems?

cipHR

It’s time for a new approach to improve workplace diversity and inclusion – one focused on changing the environment in order to “de-weaponise the cultures that we oversee,” argued John Amaechi, a former NBA basketball player turned organisational psychologist, at the CIPD Festival of Work 2020. “We The environment they are in is toxic.”.

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Blind Hiring in 2019

Astron Solutions

In the United States, laws such as the Equal Pay Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 help to ensure that hiring practices are fair and balanced. While legal compliance is an important goal, a more beneficial result of fair, balanced, and equitable hiring practices is a more diverse workforce. The result?

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Lexie Sims of The Good Board: “Provide health, including mental health and wellbeing programmes”

Thrive Global

As a part of our series about “How Diversity Can Increase a Company’s Bottom Line”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Lexie Sims. Lexie is Director of Executive Search and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Consulting at The Good Board. Provide health, including mental health and wellbeing programmes. My favourite poet is Walt Whitman.

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Talent Management in the Creative Economy

Eightfold

Creative industry in mutual synergy with a knowledge-based economy creates conditions for a strong and sustainable creative economy,” write researchers Dagmar Vesela and Katarina Klimova in a 2014 paper published in The Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences. Essential Skills Fostered in Creative Work.

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“Be Prepared for the Challenges to Come” With Rhoden Monrose

Thrive Global

Be Prepared for the Challenges to Come and Have Support No matter how committed and passionate you are, and how solid your business model is, there will be tough times and you will need grit and the ability to persevere through them. This is especially true for entrepreneurs of color. Thank you so much for joining us in this interview series!

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Airbnb’s Marisa Moret: “Why you should never be afraid or ashamed to advocate for yourself”

Thrive Global

She is recognized for her extensive network and her ability to connect people and build profitable relationships with diverse constituencies, including community groups, government officials and business leaders. If you aren’t advocating for yourself no one will know about your accomplishments. Thank you so much for doing this with us!

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“It is complicated!” With Tyler Gallagher & Jacqueline Coyle-Shapiro

Thrive Global

Employers interpret fathers as more committed and stable as a result of their parental responsibilities and reward them with higher pay (Budig, 2014) whereas women receive a motherhood penalty (Budig, 2014) as employers are likely to interpret motherhood as lending itself to less work and more distraction.