Diversity and Gender Equity
| Fostering women leaders: A fitness test for your top team
Lareina Yee, McKinsey&Company, Market: Australia, Year:2015 The challenges are well known: women in business continue to face a formidable gender gap for senior-leadership positions. Moreover, there are fewer and fewer women at each step along the path to the C-suite, although they represent a majority of entry-level employees at Fortune 500 companies and outnumber men in college-graduation rates … Read more |
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Why diversity matters Vivian Hunt, Dennis Layton, and Sara Prince, McKinsey&Company, Market: Australia, Year:2015 We know intuitively that diversity matters. It’s also increasingly clear that it makes sense in purely business terms. This research finds that companies in the top quartile for gender or racial and ethnic diversity are more likely to have financial returns above their national industry medians. Companies in the bottom quartile in these dimensions are statistically less likely to achieve above-average returns… Read more |
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| The Invisible Hand of Exclusion: Diversity Brought to Life.
Tess Finch-Lees – Director of The Global Effectiveness Group (UK). Australia’s Inaugural CSR Summit, Year: 2005 The concept of “diversity”, by its very nature, will mean something different from one country, company and individual, to the next. Effective management of diversity involves the ability to see differences as an opportunity, not a problem, which can be harnessed in a proactive way in order to optimise business benefits. Tess focuses on the pivotal role of leaders i.e. CEO and board of directors, HR, as well as recruitment, marketing and advertising professionals, in actively promoting practices of inclusion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG1pxo_QGiw |
| Fact or fiction? Stereotypes of older Australians Research Report 2013
Australian Human rights Commission. Market: Australia, Year: 2013 The growth in the number of older Australians provides significant benefits and opportunities for Australia. For example, older Australians are a large and growing consumer market for an extensive range of products and services. Research also shows that an increase of 5% in paid employment of Australians over the age of 55 would result in a $48 billion impact on the national economy, every year.
The benefits for our economy, for corporate Australia and for older Australians themselves, are clear. This report shows it’s time to remove the barriers that prevent many older Australians from reaching their full potential in workplaces and the community. |
| Women in male-dominated industries: A toolkit of strategies
Australian Human rights Commission. Market: Australia, Year: 2013 This toolkit is designed to assist leaders in organisations to develop and implement constructive and sustainable strategies to increase the representation of women in non-traditional roles in male-dominated industries. It provides practical suggestions and examples of different kinds of workplace strategies and mechanisms across four areas of: attraction, recruitment, retention and development of women. |
| Working past our 60s: Reforming laws and policies
Australian Human rights Commission. Market: Australia, Year: 2013 As a society, we have been slow to recognise that millions of older Australians are locked out of the workforce by age discrimination. We are only now starting to understand what a terrible waste of human capital this situation represents; a loss to the national economy and to businesses large and small, and a loss to the individual who is pushed out of the workforce prematurely. This guide will help you to understand Why the workplace will depend on older workers, the benefits of an older workforce and much more. |
| Creating inclusive workplaces for LGBT in India: A Resource Guide for Employers India 2012
IBM, Goldman Sachs, Google and Community Business. Market: India, Year: 2012 The publication highlights the business case for addressing the needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) employees and provides the cultural and legal context for LGBT issues in India. As a practical resource, it also provides a set of recommendations on what companies can do to create inclusive workplaces for LGBT employees and includes a number of examples of good practice. |
| Know your rights: Racial discrimination and vilification
Australian Human rights Commission. Market: Australia, Year: 2012 This guide will provide insight into definitions and examples of discrimination and indirect discrimination. It addresses discrimination and harassment in the workplace and much more. |
| The Road So Far – the Age Discrimination Act 2004 (Cth)
Australian Human rights Commission. Market: Australia, Year: 2011 This paper replaces the previous Commission paper – ?Roadmap to the Age Discrimination Act’. It includes an update on subsequent changes made to the Act and looks at the ways in which the Act is used by members of the public / employees in exercising their rights, specifically in relation to making complaints and seeking temporary exemptions. The Act in part was a response to Australia’s international human rights obligations to avoid and eliminate age discrimination. |
| 2010 Workers with Mental Illness: a Practical Guide for Managers
Australian Human rights Commission. Market: Australia, Year: 2010 As a manager or employer, this guide will provide you with information on how to appropriately support workers with mental illness. It also provides you with information about how to develop and promote a safe and healthy work environment for all workers. |
| Community Guide to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Australian Human rights Commission. Market: Australia, Year: 2010 The Declaration is the most comprehensive tool available to advance the rights of Indigenous peoples. |
| Gender Equality Blueprint (2010)
Australian Human rights Commission. Market: Australia, Year: 2010 In the wake of securing the major reform of paid parental leave scheme for Australia, there is a risk that gender equality will be considered to be “finished business”, making further reform unnecessary. This Blueprint sets out recommendations in five priority areas which significantly affect both the public and private lives of women and men. |
| RightsED – Young people in the workplace
Australian Human rights Commission. Market: Australia, Year: 2010 This Guide contains a series of activities and resources to help students explore the issues around workplace discrimination. The activities help students to draw comparisons between the dramatised workplace issues and their personal experiences by looking at how concepts of difference, discrimination and harassment may operate in their daily lives |
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Women’s Empowerment Principles – Equality Means Business Market: Global, Year: 2010 A set of principles for business offering guidance on how to empower women in the workplace, marketplace and community. They emphasize the business case for corporate action to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment and seek to point the way to best practice by elaborating the gender dimension of good corporate citizenship, the Global Compact, and the role of business in sustainable development. Please click here for more information |
| Measuring Progress: Meeting Challenges
Market: UK, Year: 2009 The Opportunity Now Benchmarking Survey is the UK’s most extensive survey of gender equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. It gives a snapshot of what progress employers have made on gender equality, diversity and inclusion and reveals its tangible business benefits. Benchmarking_National_Trends_Analysis_Final.pdf |
| The Inclusive Business Challenge: Identifying opportunities to engage low income communities across the value chain.
World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Market: Europe, Year: 2009 “The Inclusive Business Challenge” is an easy-to-use presentation and simulation tool to help companies and stakeholders identify and implement models that profitably engage low-income populations across companies’ value chains and develop affordable products and services that meet the needs of low-income populations. The tool aims to help companies raise awareness of the role of business in development and to introduce the challenges, drivers and principles of inclusive business. It presents good practice examples, and suggests ways to integrate inclusive business into company strategy. A key feature of the tool is in the simulation activity which is designed to be used in an interactive workshop setting to identify risks and opportunities in building inclusive business. |
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The RfO Awards 2008 publication Market: Global, Year: 2008 The 2008 Race for Opportunity (RfO) Awards Dinner and this publication illustrate the very best examples of good business policy and practice in UK in developing and progressing black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) talent. There are many case studies in it. The short-listed case studies track ethnic minorities from early school years through to employment. They provide clear evidence of the actions and clever interventions made by organisations to ensure that people of black, Asian and ethnic minority origin are considered and included in the talent pipeline. |
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Voluntary Code of Practice on Employing Migrant Workers / Overseas Staff in Great Britain Market: UK, Year: 2008 Migrant workers are a necessary resource for many employment sectors due to a shortage of available local labour. Evidence suggests that migrant workers can have a positive impact on local communities and be an important factor in sustaining local business diversity. BITC_Voluntary_Code_of_Practice1.pdf |
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Business Action on Supplier Diversity Market: UK, Year: 2007 Business Action on Supplier Diversity showcases the work of 8 leading companies who have seen the business benefits of supporting and buying from local minority-led businesses. |
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Australia Measures the Value of Cross Cultural Training Market: Australia, Year: 2007 Cultural competence is vital to international trade performance and the fulfilment of international diplomacy and security responsibilities. An Australian longitudinal research study has produced statistical evidence that cross-cultural training (CCT) directly benefits public sector employees, their organizations and clients. It’s time for you to have a look of this study to see how CCT can help increase cultural competence. |
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RfO Benchmarking Report 2009 Market: UK, Year: 2009 This report is packed with case studies, advice, action plans and recommendations on how employers can make their places of work more racially diverse and it also represents an enormous amount of hard work on the part of RfO, Race for Opportunity, employers. |
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Measuring Progress: Meeting Challenges Market: UK, Year: 2009 The Opportunity Now Benchmarking Survey is the UK’s most extensive survey of gender equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. It gives a snapshot of what progress employers have made on gender equality, diversity and inclusion and reveals its tangible business benefits. |
| How to build a world class company and international leaders through understanding
and managing diversity Tess Finch-Lees -Director of The Global Effectiveness Group (UK). Australia’s Inaugural CSR Summit, Year: 2005 As consultant to FTSE 100 companies and previously manager of the Global Diversity Network (a knowledge sharing forum for global heads of diversity including Barclays, BP, Cable and Wireless, Dow Chemicals, HP, Kodak, Philip Morris and Shell), Tess will examine the crucial role of HR processes (eg performance management, defining competencies, recruitment, training and development, employee engagement etc) in promoting a safe, inclusive and productive work environment. 2005_CSR_Summit_Day_3_02-Human_Resources_Tess_Finch-Lees.mp3 |
| Increasing market share through diversity
Tess Finch-Lees -Director of The Global Effectiveness Group (UK). Australia’s Inaugural CSR Summit, Year: 2005 Diversity awareness in advertising and marketing campaigns can make or break a brand. In this practical interactive session, Tess will present her analysis (recently published in Anita Roddick’s international business journal) using case studies to illustrate some high profile successes and some costly company failures. An excellent session for advertising and marketing managers. 2005_CSR_Summit_Day_3_01-Marketing_Public_Affiars_Tess_Finch-Lees.mp3 |