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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Diversity champions programme

We Believe That People Perform Better When They Can Be Themselves

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Planning the recruitment process

Resource: Planning the recruitment process Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email Effective recruitment

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Infographic gender salary survey 2016

Different promotion rates for men and women are one of the main causes of the gender pay gap, according to analysis of data

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Recruit for attitude and social skills

Interactions with hotel customers have transitioned from a reverential relationship to something more equal. Now they recruit

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

How inequality starts before birth – international day of the girl

On International Day of the Girl, we look at the challenges of our unequal world, with girls facing discrimination from the m

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Lean in women work and the will to lead

In response to Sheryl’s 2010 TEDTalk on the ways women are held back—and the way we hold ourselves back—viewers around the wo

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Tackling gender pay gap and new reporting guidelines

CMI Chief Executive Ann Francke says that managers will be at the forefront of introducing the cultural changes needed to mak

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Why do ambitious women have flat heads

Dame Stephanie Shirley is the most successful tech entrepreneur you never heard of.

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Why gender equality is good for everyone

Yes, we all know it’s the right thing to do. But Michael Kimmel makes the surprising, funny, practical case for treating men

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Hillary Clintons loss is still gain for womer in leadership

That shattering sound wasn’t the “highest and hardest” glass ceiling, after all. For female supporters of the Democratic Part

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Topic: Productivity

Do your staff really need bonuses?

A top fund manager has stopped paying bonuses to his staff but is he right?

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

BBC Embraces Blind Recruitment

The BBCs New Diversity Strategy Includes Removing Candidates’ Names and University Details From Cvs

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