Das bundesweite Hochschulmagazin „audimax“ schaut über den Tellerrand hinaus. In einem „Karriere-Special“ berichteten die Redakteure in der Juni-Ausgabe des Magazins über den Einstieg in das Berufsfeld Unternehmensberatung. Vorgestellt wurden Unternehmensberatungen wie „Roland Berger Strategie Consulting“, „Booz Allen Hamilton“ oder „Accenture“ – und mittendrin „Ungleich Besser Diversity Consulting“.
With 785 representatives from 27 member countries and chambers in Brussels and Strasbourg, the European parliament is the world’s only directly elected international chamber. It represents a more diverse range of people than almost any other – 492 million European citizens. But, it is also almost completely white.
A report released by Manpower this month, highlights the very real and complex threat to employer’s ability to compete. This threat is about the draining of skills and knowledge that occurs every time an experienced older worker retires with no one ready to succeed him due, in part, to poor planning by employers and lack […]
Companies in France have begun scouring the country’s minority communities for untapped talent, as changing markets make a diverse work force a valuable asset. But beyond the business benefits, the effort could help ease the economic disparities that were a major factor in last year’s nationwide riots. Part of the problem is that affirmative action […]
The concerns about the number of sick days being taken by their employees, have led over a quarter of European employers to offer incentives to reduce sickness absence. These incentives include bonuses and vouchers but opinion on the appropriateness of such incentives is mixed.
Eine Frauenquote? In der Agentur „uphoff pr“ könnte man über eine Männerquote nachdenken. Elf Frauen arbeiten in der Marburger Agentur, acht von ihnen sind Mütter. Wie sie den Betrieb und ihre Familien vereinbaren? „Oft muss man ganz schön jonglieren“, sagt Unternehmensgründerin und Geschäftsführerin Dr. Karin Uphoff. Doch die sechsfache Mutter hat in den vergangenen vier […]
Die Gemeinde der deutschen Unternehmen, die sich zu einer nachhaltigen Diversity-Strategie bekennen, wächst ständig. Am 21. März 2007 unterzeichnete unter anderem Kraft Foods in Berlin die „Charta der Vielfalt der Unternehmen in Deutschland“. Mit einer ganzen Reihe von Maßnahmen möchte das Unternehmen für Chancengleichheit und ein ausgewogenes Verhältnis zwischen Arbeit und Privatleben sorgen.
Hundreds of thousands of men face salary cuts of up to £15,000 to fund increases for women staff. Equal pay claims for up to 1.5 million public sector workers could cost the taxpayer more than £10 billion and mean that hundreds of thousands of men will lose up to 40 per cent of their salary.
A large number of business leaders will only appoint a woman into a very senior post in times of crisis and poor performance, according to a new report. Women face a “hidden form of discrimination”, which sees them more readily appointed to tough jobs where they are more likely to fail, according to Women in […]
„One of the reasons diversity pioneers invented this concept back in the 1980s was to add a more positive and business-orientated perspective to what had been mainly a legal compliance issue. Consequently, a comprehensive approach was developed into more outward-driven programmes that aimed at supporting business results (“diversity for the bottom line”), beyond reasons of […]
