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How Class Affects How We Collaborate

The Horizons Tracker

A study from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business took this a step further and explored the impact of class diversity on the success of a team. Research from Emory University also shows that class affects how we collaborate with one another. How we collaborate.

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Study Suggests Lower Class People Are Perceived As Having Fewer Goals

The Horizons Tracker

In the initial study, They enlisted a representative sample of Americans belonging to both high and low social classes. Participants were then asked to assess the importance they attributed to a predefined set of goals, previously established through extensive research. They were then asked to rate how these individuals valued goals.

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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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Master-Class Series Aims To Help British Entrepreneurs Succeed In China

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The course, which is free to attend, also gives participants access to leaders from both Alibaba themselves and from across China. The lessons in the masterclass will help participants understand the digital and platform economies that are dominating in China and how companies can utilize them to grow their businesses.

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How to Involve Participants in a Leadership Training Program

Great Leadership By Dan

Even the most brilliant, credible, and talented instructors with the most dazzling PowerPoint slides won’t guarantee participants in a leadership training program are actually going to learn anything. Then, have participants pair up or form triads to discuss their answers. What would be the barriers?” “How Then, debrief the discussion.

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Female Student Participation Increases When There Are More Female Students

The Horizons Tracker

Increasing STEM participation rates among women has been an issue for some time, but with an estimated 60% of biology undergraduates across the United States being female, there would appear to be at least some cause for celebration. “Simply being aware of equity and wanting to promote it in your class is important.”

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Tackling The Bias Against First-Generation Graduates

The Horizons Tracker

The class gap in the workplace is something I’ve written about a number of times, with people from working-class backgrounds routinely disadvantaged. This survey probed their convictions regarding the influence of socioeconomic class background. Surprisingly, both these simple interventions yielded positive results.

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