This article has been bolded for skim-reading. There are two basic reasons for tackling diversity (seriously) in an organization. Both are valid. Compliance and liability fall within one category. This is the risk management or ‘away from problems’ strategy. The second approach to diversity is a ‘towards strategy’. Here differentness of many kinds becomes a [...]
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Gender Diversity Creates Wealth: Norway and (now) Sweden use the science.
Ansgar Gabrielsen, a male Norwegian businessman and politician, is an expert on the details of a 2007 Catalyst study, The Bottom Line: Corporate Performance & Women’s Representation on Boards, Gabrielsen’s focus has not been on gender equality. His interest is in “the fact that diversity is a value in itself, that it creates wealth.” He [...]
Three tips for creating competency-based systems
It is very easy to spend months, or $$$$$ on a competency-based program, and end up with very little to show for it. A competency is (per Rodney Rogers of Portland State University) a persistent pattern of behaviour resulting from a cluster of knowledge, skills, abilities, and motivations. The persistence of those behaviors is an [...]
Building organization-wide business thinking
1 Everyone needs to maintain or increase organizational profit in a time of economic slowdown 2 One proven route to profitability: build the financial and business intelligence in all your employees In a time of economic weakness, it’s especially important to make sure that all your key people are financially intelligent. And not only key [...]
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