The Road to More Women in the Boardroom
In today’s business environment, gender diversity – and diversity on a broader scale – is essential to ensuring we have the right skills base and talent pool within our organizations.
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Why CEOs Should Create a Disability-Confident Workplace This Year
Six key business reasons from XpertHR’s Good Practice Guide on Disability for creating a disability-confident workplace in 2019:
For organisations to thrive, they need to attract and retain talented staff and create a positive experience…
Unconscious Bias is Damaging the Leadership of Tomorrow
Did you know only 51% of the FTSE 100 companies have Directors from black and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, and only 8% of the total Director population in the UK.
Here’s How and Why More Women in the Boardroom Is a Good Thing
In most boardrooms, the majority of directors are male. This comes down to outdated biases and a lack of understanding around the benefits of gender diversity.
How Can Businesses Recognise and Support LGBT+ Talent?
LGBT+ inclusion is rightfully top-of-mind for the business community – not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because there are many cultural and corporate benefits of LGBT+ inclusion. The Harvard Business Review has reported that…
What Really Caused Google’s Unthinkable Workplace Backlash?
In recent events, Google staff around the world rose together to protest the company’s workplace culture, following claims of sexual harassment, gender inequality and systemic racism. The protests span across the globe, in all major cities…
Gender Pay Gap Reporting: Why We Need More Women at the Top
April 2018 was the deadline for private and public organisations with more than 250 employees to report their gender pay gap. More than 10,000 employers provided details of their gender pay gap, and more than three-quarters of them paid men…
Indra Nooyi: Refreshing PepsiCo
By Louisa Rochford
Consistently ranked among the world’s 100 Most Powerful Women and one of our Top 50 CEOs, Indra Nooyi has accomplished a wealth of achievements in her 12 years as CEO of PepsiCo. Now, as Nooyi begins the…
Here’s Why Inclusion & Diversity in the Workplace is a Big Deal
There has been much discussion recently around inclusion and diversity in the workforce with high-profile campaigns such as the gender pay gap really driving the issue forward. The result has been a genuine effort and momentum to move…
A CEOs Guide to the Gender Pay Gap
The news that Tesco is facing Britain’s largest ever equal pay claim and a possible bill running to £4bn is only the latest example of the impact that gender pay issues are having in the workplace and beyond. And these are only likely to…