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Female Leadership on the Decline in Canada :: Women on Business

Women on Business

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), In April 2007, Catalyst surveyed all of the FP 500 companies in Canada, and at the time, 15.1% One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g., which is down 4% from 30% in the prior year.

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Research: More Than Half of Top Female Execs Were College Athletes

Harvard Business Review

The study by EY Women Athletes Business Network and espnW surveyed more than 400 female executives in five countries (20% were U.S. Half are C-Suite level executives, meaning that they serve as CEO, CFO, COO or the board of directors at a company. But even more important are two other strengths: competitiveness and teamwork.

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The Two Most Interesting Things You’ll Read This Week Are About Corporate Taxes

Harvard Business Review

A study of CFO surveys shows that corporate financial professionals are way too sure of their ability to predict the future. Over the course of a decade, the CFOs were asked to state the range of one-year stock-market forecasts that they thought would lead them to be right 80% of the time. But do they?

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When Transparency Backfires, and How to Prevent It

Harvard Business Review

In several survey studies, we demonstrated that when employees perceive their leaders as too ethically driven, they demonstrated the same negative behaviors that were shown when leaders were perceived as very unethical. A similar effect can happen when the goal of transparency is not only ethics but also other desired behavior.

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How to Use Psychometric Testing in Hiring

Harvard Business Review

Roughly 18% of companies currently use personality tests in the hiring process, according to a survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management. But there are both ethical and pragmatic benefits to sharing results, regardless of whether a candidate receives or accepts an offer of employment.

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How to Use Psychometric Testing in Hiring

Harvard Business Review

Roughly 18% of companies currently use personality tests in the hiring process, according to a survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management. But there are both ethical and pragmatic benefits to sharing results, regardless of whether a candidate receives or accepts an offer of employment.

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The Never-Ending Meeting :: Women on Business

Women on Business

This is my plea for the “meeters&# of the world to break from the pack and start becoming “doers.&# Many studies find that 70% or better surveyed said their meetings are very often time-wasters and could be more productive. I spent more time meeting and less time actually doing. Assign tasks and ask if there are questions.