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BAME Candidates Don’t Get Given “Winnable” Seats

The Horizons Tracker

The local public opinion on diversity was then measured using the answers on race and immigration from the British Election Study, the European Social Survey, the British Social Attitudes survey, and the European and World Values studies. Gradual improvement.

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Do They See the Leader You’re Trying to Be?

The Practical Leader

.” Joe reports, “We found that what set highly coachable leaders apart was their scores on one particular survey item in their 360-degree assessment: Does this person SEEK and RESPOND (his emphasis) to feedback? Regular team/organization engagement or attitude surveys through a third party.

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Hiring Discrimination Against Black Americans Hasn’t Declined in 25 Years

Harvard Business Review

We analyzed data from 24 field experiments, which included data from more than 54,000 applications across more than 25,000 positions. In the figure below, the dots represent results from 21 studies contrasting white and black applicants, based on a total of 42,708 applications for 20,990 positions. The line shows the overall trend.

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A Working from Home Experiment Shows High Performers Like It Better

Harvard Business Review

The home-workers also reported substantially higher work satisfaction and less “work exhaustion” in a psychological attitudes survey. There is an extensive body of case studies on individual firms that have adopted WFH programs, and they tend to show large positive impacts. See the studies here and here.)

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The 4 Dimensions of Digital Trust, Charted Across 42 Countries

Harvard Business Review

Left unmanaged, even these “positive” frictions (e.g. As we explained earlier, user behavior is more relevant as a trust measure than what users report in attitude surveys. multiple passwords, identity authentication) can have a perverse effect of making the user less willing to engage online.

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