Demographic change, particularly workforce ageing, will start to affect all of Europe in a substantive way and over a surprisingly short period of time. EU companies have great potential to improve their readiness to face such change by sharpening their demographic fitness according to a survey conducted by Adecco Institute.
The Orbit Group is celebrating after receiving another award for its Equality & Diversity work. The National Black and New Communities Residents Network (NBNC) have recognised the work carried out by the Orbit Group. It comes after the Group won the Diversity & Race award at this year’s National Housing Federation Neighbourhood Awards.
According to the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) Sweden is at the top of EU countries that are making a genuine effort to stimulate the integration of immigrants. The MIPEX measures policies to integrate migrants in 25 EU Member States and 3 non-EU countries.
The European Union’s executive commission argued for more linguistic diversity across Europe, stating that knowing more languages can boost cultural diversity, economic growth and intercultural understanding. Leonard Orban, EU commissioner in charge of multilingualism supported the idea to encourage the teaching of two extra languages to students from an early age at schools across the […]
Businesses in Scotland are being urged to embrace diversity to improve performance and productivity. A new initiative, Equality Matters in Business (EMB), has been jointly set up by Scottish Enterprise (SE), Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and the Scottish Government to highlight the positive benefits of employing a diverse workforce and considering diversity in service […]
This year, The Employers Forum on Age (EFA) launched a new annual awards programme. The awards ceremony, in October 2007, highlighted the innovative ways employers are tackling age discrimination in the workplace. In the six months since the award programme was launched, over 45 different policies and age initiatives were entered.
In only 9 months of time, the European Disability Forum has met the ambitious challenge launched last January: to collect one million signatures across the European Union in favour of comprehensive EU disability legislation. The President of the European Disability Forum, Yannis Vardakastanis, announced this achievement to the 118 member organisations which were actively involved […]
Vielfalt verbindet, gerade in der vielsprachigen, föderalen Schweiz. In diesem Geist lud der Diversity Roundtable Schweiz, ein Netzwerk von Großunternehmen wie Credit Suisse und Novartis, zur ersten großen Diversity Konferenz der Konföderation Helvetica in die ETH Zürich.
Die Zahl der beschäftigten Diversity Manager steigt an. 13 DAX Unternehmen beschäftigen Diversity Manager in Vollzeit. Ihr Job ist es u.a. ein produktives Umfeld zu gestalten, so heißt es in einem Artikel im Personalmagazin, das sich auf eine Studie von Ungleich Besser Diversity Consulting bezieht. Lesen Sie hier mehr über die Studie.
Im METRO-Konzern werden MitarbeiterInnen fortan für gute Ideen ausgezeichnet, mit denen das Unternehmen besser auf die internationale Vielfalt der Kunden eingehen kann. Unter dem Titel „Together – Vorsprung durch Vielfalt“ waren Beschäftigte der Berliner Filialen von Metro Cash & Carry, Real und extra, Kaufhof, sowie Media Markt und Saturn zum „Brainstorming“ eingeladen.
