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The Ongoing Pay Gap For Working Class Professionals

The Horizons Tracker

A new study from the Social Mobility Foundation finds that if you’re a professional worker from a working-class background, you’re making around £6,291 less each year compared to those from a professional-managerial background. For professional women from working-class backgrounds, it’s a double whammy.

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Social Class In The C-Suite

The Horizons Tracker

It’s fair to say that class plays a significant role in whether people get into the C-suite or not. Indeed, research shows that workers from working-class backgrounds are over 30% less likely to be recruited into a managerial role than their middle-class peers.

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New Film Highlights The Work Needed To Overcome The Class Pay Gap

The Horizons Tracker

In the hit HBO/BBC drama Industry , aside from the general debauchery of the characters, one thing that’s noticeable is the upper-class backgrounds of the leads. Only Harry heralds from a working-class background, and he visibly struggles to fit in in a world in which the rest of the cast seems to know precisely how to speak and act.

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Being Working Class In “Elite” Professions

The Horizons Tracker

At the back end of last year, I wrote about the “class gap” that exists in many professions. Indeed, so pronounced is this gap that the Social Mobility Foundation mark November 14, as this is the effective date at which working-class employees stop earning compared to their peers.

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Doing Well By Doing Good With Darrin Williams, CEO Southern Bancorp

N2Growth Blog

Darrin Williams , CEO of Southern Bancorp, may have been a little surprised when a world-class business school professor came knocking at his door. He wasn’t used to that kind of attention deep in the heart of Arkansas. Yet, he could no longer fly under the radar.

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A Cure for the Common Company

Leading Blog

Connection points like the green leaf symbol tagged to healthy foods, choices placed at eye-level, fitness classes, rewards and recognition all help to support healthy life choices. Leadership Engagement Well-Being needs to be on the leadership agenda along with everything else like finance and customer service.

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When Things Get Crazy, Look for Ways to To Empower Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

Gail was a world-class role model of how to empower your team. For example, Gail was clear about which decisions we needed to include our finance partners and which did not. . “Where there is chaos, seize control.” I was young and newly promoted in an HR role in the midst of a big merger. Empowerment can feel scary.

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