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The Part-Time Workforce Are A Hidden Talent Pool

The Horizons Tracker

And those “missing from the workforce,” presently not employed but capable of participating in gainful employment under suitable conditions. The researchers propose various things that managers can do to change things.

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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

Gordon Berridge: Our readers, with mining knowledge, will be will be familiar with the name Sam Walsh and Rio Tinto, but to provide a complete sketch of your background, would you please share a brief summary of your career history? I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

In terms of solutions, Ann emphasised the need for employers to promote women proportionately through the ranks, offer flexible working solutions for those on career breaks and create sponsorship programs that cater to women from diverse backgrounds. CMI’s proposal has already been picked up in the media and some key influencers.

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Diversity Doesn’t Stick Without Inclusion

Harvard Business Review

Leaders have long recognized that a diverse workforce of women, people of color, and LGBT individuals confers a competitive edge in terms of selling products or services to diverse end users. In the context of the workplace, diversity equals representation. In fact, without inclusion there’s often a diversity backlash.

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Unblocking Women's Paths to the Boardroom

Harvard Business Review

Earlier this month in Strasbourg, European Commission Vice President Viviane Reding proposed a new law that would enforce quotas of 40% for women's representation on European corporate boards by 2020. Within corporations, gender diversity initiatives that are added on to the same old way of doing business cannot have significant impact.

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It’s a Match! How to Create an Equitable Compensation System That Fits You

HR Digest

Add in more diverse identities and the disparity becomes even more apparent. According to the International Labor Organization , the global labor force participation rate for women stands at 47 percent. Low diversity could be a result of bias in hiring, unfair recruiting criteria, insufficient diversity in recruitment sources, etc.

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How Employees Shaped Strategy at the New York Public Library

Harvard Business Review

It serves vastly diverse populations: toddlers and caregivers, new immigrants, lifelong learners, famous novelists, and scholars. How to provide hyper-local services tailored to the diverse needs of its patrons while also upholding a consistent and high standard of service? The conversation would be neither bottom-up nor top down.