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Closing The Gender Gap In STEM

The Horizons Tracker

They dove into the numbers from the American Community Survey between 2009 and 2019. More women go for roles like computing managers or analysts, while more men go for high-paying gigs like software developers. It’s a bit better than the average across all jobs (82 cents), but still not quite hitting the fairness mark.

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“Studying doesn’t stop at GCSEs”

Chartered Management Institute

She went from dealing with cancer patients to developing teams, managing projects and helping to drive organisational change. Having qualified as a nurse in 2005, she spent four years as a staff nurse in surgery, before starting her cancer specialist role in 2009 at Sunderland Royal Hospital.

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2019 ASA Deming Lecture, Walking with Giants: A Research Odyssey

Deming Institute

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Nicholas Fisher, University of Sydney, gave the 2019 ASA Deming Lecture – Walking with Giants: A Research Odyssey. Nicholas continued to discuss his journey to improving management practices.

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The Big Shift: Demand for Future Work Skills in 2021

HR Digest

When I was a technology marketing exec in 2009, I heard the words nurture marketing. Digital transformation managers. Formal studies completed their data set in 2019 and we were certain there was a shift by 4 th quarter of 2020. Often used interchangeably, reskilling, and upskilling have different meanings. Big data specialists.

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Learning the Ropes: How to Prevent Data Theft by Employees

HR Digest

The ex-employee, Google’s Linwei Ding, had been with Google since 2019, working as a software engineer who was granted access to confidential data for his work at the company. He was allegedly working for two companies in China, giving them an unfair advantage by providing them with the resources they needed to get ahead of competitors.

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The Evolving World of ROI for Learning and Development

Experience to Lead

Managers don’t measure absolute points so much as they manage change” (Fitz – Enz, 2009, p. This approach has created managers who… ultimately lack the empathy to keep employees engaged and productive” (Daniel, 2020). In organizations, measurement is usually about the degree or amount of change.

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Avoid Doing the Wrong things Righter…But, “By What Method?”

Deming Institute

Stephen Covey similarly described this concept using the metaphor of a ladder, stating, ”Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall” (Covey, 2011). Mark Lane, 2019). Leadership and Management. Subscribe to our mailing list today!

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