Dezember, 2011
11. Dezember 2011 || by Michael Stuber || Corporate Practice / Strategien und Instrumente, Editorial ||
After 15 years of European Diversity models, many wonder what organisations have achieved in D&I and where they are heading. With the significant expansion of the number of diversity programmes, the immense renewed public attention and also with many new stakeholders involved, the dynamics in the field have changed significantly. The multitude of influences and […]
Tags: Alter, Behinderung, Empirie / Forschung, Ethnie / Kultur, Gender, Inklusion, InternationalitÀt, LGBT / sexuelle Orientierung, Religion, Sprache Englisch
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7. Dezember 2011 || by News Desk || Medien und Diversity, Newsletter ||
A report in Saudi Arabia has warned that if Saudi women were given the right to drive, it would spell the end of virginity in the country. The report contains graphic warnings that letting women drive would increase prostitution, pornography, homosexuality and divorce.
Tags: Gender, Inklusion, LGBT / sexuelle Orientierung, Sprache Englisch
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7. Dezember 2011 || by News Desk || Medien und Diversity, Newsletter ||
Austria took a step to end a decades-long rift with the country’s Slovenian minority this November, when parliament passed a law to double the number of communities allowed to use bilingual city signage, mainly in the region of Carinthia. In the future, Slovenes (Austrian citizens) of 164 cities will be able to read the name […]
Tags: Ethnie / Kultur, Inklusion, InternationalitÀt, Sprache Englisch
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7. Dezember 2011 || by News Desk || Business Case, Newsletter ||
Changes in workplace practise can positively impact and improve the overall performance of employees and productivity of a company, according to new research from Eurofound, the Dublin-based EU agency for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.
Tags: Empirie / Forschung, Inklusion, Sprache Englisch, Work-Life
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7. Dezember 2011 || by News Desk || Business Case, Newsletter ||
Seven years after the 2004 enlargement of the EU, a new European Commission study looks at the economic and labour market impact of east-west labour mobility flows in recent years. The study puts a main focus on mobilityâs impact on labour markets, the macro-economy and human capital issues such as brain drain and down-schilling of […]
Tags: Ethnie / Kultur, Inklusion, InternationalitÀt, Sprache Englisch
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7. Dezember 2011 || by News Desk || Newsletter, Politik ||
France and Spain rank best in the latest Corporate Women Directors International study of women directors in Fortune Global 200 companies, the biggest in the world, regarding the progress on female top managers. The new report, presented in November 2011 at the Worldbank, ranks France first for the fastest rate of increase, as it moved […]
Tags: Empirie / Forschung, Gender, InternationalitÀt, Sprache Englisch
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7. Dezember 2011 || by News Desk || Newsletter, Politik ||
Germanys blue chips presented their self-commited objectives for increasing the share of women in management at a summit meeting of the DAX 30 with the federal ministers Kristina Schröder, Ursula von der Leyen, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger and Philipp Rösler. As expected, the individual ambitions vary greatly. However, the Media were barely interested in the public commitments.
Tags: Gender, Sprache Englisch, Work-Life
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7. Dezember 2011 || by News Desk || Corporate Practice / Strategien und Instrumente, Newsletter ||
In the past years, a significant move has been made towards having more women in management and on executive boards. Female CEOs or company presidents, however, are still a very rare exception. One of the few examples is the current president of SEB Group (Sweden), Annika Falkengren; she has been in this position since 2005. […]
Tags: Gender, Sprache Englisch
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7. Dezember 2011 || by News Desk || Corporate Practice / Strategien und Instrumente, Newsletter ||
Ranstad Italia is running the first (by their own account) and hence unique Italian programme dedicated to the placement of employees with a disability, called âHopportunitiesâ. In Italy, similar to many other European countries, there is a legal requirement to employ people with a disability following a scaled quota system. According to the regulatory framework
Tags: Behinderung, Inklusion, InternationalitÀt, Sprache Englisch
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7. Dezember 2011 || by News Desk || HR, Newsletter ||
One out of every six people in the world â or some 1 billion people â has a disability. Between 785 and 975 million of them are estimated to be of working age, but according to expert analysis most do not work. People with intellectual disability are reported to make up one per cent of […]
Tags: Alter, Behinderung, InternationalitÀt, Sprache Englisch
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